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Judges side with Trump EPA over canceled Inflation Reduction Act grants to nonprofits
An appellate court found that the Trump administration was within its rights to cancel billions of dollars in grants. The nonprofits that had their grants cancelled are expected to appeal.
The battle over $20 billion worth of climate-related funding authorized by Congress continues as an appellate court ruled on Tuesday in favor of the Environmental Protection Agency, which had terminated Biden-era grants made to nonprofits. The two majority justices, both Trump appointees, wrote that Zeldin’s cancellation of the contracts was valid and that the government “must ensure proper oversight and management” of the grants. Zeldin had claimed that fraud was one of his main concerns, though a lengthy investigation by the interim U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., failed to turn up any meaningful evidence, according to a report in The New York Times.
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