Climate groups tell court EPA effort to cancel grant money is unlawful

The Trump Environmental Protection Agency‘s efforts to cancel money granted to nonprofit organizations to fund clean energy projects in low-income communities are unlawful and could cause irreparable harm to the awardees, the nonprofit groups argued in federal court on Wednesday. 

A federal court in Washington, D.C., heard arguments from three nonprofit groups that were granted $20 billion from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: the Climate United Fund, Coalition for Green Capital, and Power Forward Communities.

The EPA “has a right to manage its own grants, of course, but they must do so within the means and balance of the law,” the plaintiffs’ attorney said.

The plaintiffs argued that the EPA’s efforts to terminate the funding violate a number of statutes, including the Inflation Reduction Act, the

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