Ruling: EPA barred from seizing Green Bank funds
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Posted On: 03/20/2025 5:53:00 AM
Ruling: EPA barred from seizing Green Bank funds
Nonprofit recipients of $14 billion in federal grants and loans will keep up court fight in hopes of winning release of approved grants for solar and other clean-energy projects nationwide.
March 19, 2025 Ben Santarris
In the restraining order issued against the EPA Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya S. Chutkan said the EPA failed to back up its charges for terminating the grants. The judge is best-known for presiding over a now-dismissed case against President Donald Trump for his alleged role in trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
In her ruling, Chutkan dismissed the EPA’s charges as unpersuasively “vague and unsubstantiated assertions” and therefore unwarranted under the agency’s charter and bylaws.
“The government can’t just void contracts and void agreements and terminate things without following its own regulation,” the judge said during a hearing, according to The Washington Post.
The EPA froze the grant deposits on Feb. 18, then terminated the grants on March 12. The nonprofits said the moves not only jeopardized the projects’ public benefits, including jobs and clean energy, but also forced the nonprofits to juggle how to cover bills and pay staff.
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/03/19/ruling...ank-funds/
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Nonprofit recipients of $14 billion in federal grants and loans will keep up court fight in hopes of winning release of approved grants for solar and other clean-energy projects nationwide.
March 19, 2025 Ben Santarris
In the restraining order issued against the EPA Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya S. Chutkan said the EPA failed to back up its charges for terminating the grants. The judge is best-known for presiding over a now-dismissed case against President Donald Trump for his alleged role in trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
In her ruling, Chutkan dismissed the EPA’s charges as unpersuasively “vague and unsubstantiated assertions” and therefore unwarranted under the agency’s charter and bylaws.
“The government can’t just void contracts and void agreements and terminate things without following its own regulation,” the judge said during a hearing, according to The Washington Post.
The EPA froze the grant deposits on Feb. 18, then terminated the grants on March 12. The nonprofits said the moves not only jeopardized the projects’ public benefits, including jobs and clean energy, but also forced the nonprofits to juggle how to cover bills and pay staff.
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/03/19/ruling...ank-funds/
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