A federal judge asked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on March 12 to submit evidence justifying its decision to terminate a $20 billion climate funding program.
Judge Tanya Chutkan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said during a court hearing that she would order the administration to file a sworn statement by March 17 detailing the evidence it used as the basis for ending the grant.
“You can’t even tell me what the evidence of malfeasance is,” Chutkan told a lawyer for the Trump administration during the hearing.
The EPA confirmed earlier this month that it had canceled what it described as a $20 billion “gold bar” scheme introduced by the previous administration.
The program, formally known as the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, is commonly called the “green bank.” It was approved under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, with the EPA awarding $20 billion in grants to eight entities to launch projects aimed at curbing pollution. […]
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