EPA acted unlawfully and unconstitutionally when it terminated $20 billion in climate grants issued by the Biden administration, a federal judge said Wednesday night — minutes after her injunction was stayed by an appeals court.
The late-night news of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit temporary pause and the judge’s opinion criticizing EPA’s actions marks the latest developments in the high-profile legal saga over the Trump administration’s efforts to claw back Biden-era green spending.
In the Wednesday night opinion that followed her Tuesday injunction, Judge Tanya Chutkan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia excoriated EPA for what she called “thinly veiled attempts to dismantle the entirety of a congressionally created program.”
At each turn, Chutkan criticized EPA’s actions and rejected its claims of concerns about how the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund was set up.
