Politico
Alex Guillén
18 June 2025
EPA cannot “thumb its nose at Congress” by refusing to spend appropriated funds, the judge wrote.
A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that EPA’s termination of $600 million in environmental justice grants issued by the Biden administration for low-income areas and communities of color was unlawful.
The ruling over the Thriving Communities Grantmaking Program comes as EPA is separately appealing a ruling that its termination of $20 billion in Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grants was also unlawful. Congressional Republicans have proposed rescinding funding for both grant programs as part of their reconciliation bills.
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