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Many groups and non-profit organizations filed a lawsuit against the environmental protection agency on Monday, which is to cancel a $ 7 billion solar for all programs, which makes solar energy accessible to solar energy with less than 900,000 low-income solar energy. Americans,
They say that the end of the Trump administration program was illegal and they want EPA To restore it. The event is associated with another $ 20 billion in green funding, which has also ended under the President. Donald Trump That EPA Administrator Li Zeldin The waste was characterized as a fraud scheme.
EPA said in an email on Monday that it does not comment on litigation.
The lawsuit is the latest legal action against the administration between clean energy policy across the country and attacks on related funds and programs. Trump has gone to promote fossil fuel production such as oil, natural gas and coal.
Filed a case Rhode Island Road Island AFL-CIO Labor Organization and other-Public Interest Law Center, Road Island Center for Justice and non-profit solar United Nebors, extend the importance of the program for local workforce and lower income communities, which are looking for access to clean-energy project funding.
Road Island AFL-CIO president Patrick Crole said on Monday that the end of the program kills jobs and will increase electricity prices.
EPA canceled solar for all in August
The solar was canceled for all money after Tram’s mass tax and expenditure law passed in the Congress in July. Zeldin said in a statement on social media at the time, “The line below is: EPA no longer has a legal right to operate the program or approved amount, which is to keep this boon alive.”
The groups argued in the trial that the law had canceled the climate grants not only honored by the EPA and these solar funds had already been honored.
“The rollback of solar for all programs of the Trump administration is a shameless effort to pursue fossil fuel at the expense of families for all programs of Trump Administration, senior vice -president of law and policy at the Protection Act Foundation.”
He said in a statement, “This program will provide access to low -income families for clean, affordable solar energy: the energy that reduces the bill, improves air quality, and protects people during extreme summer,” he said in a statement.
The lawsuit estimates the previous EPA that the program would have saved the recipients receiving approximately $ 400 each year on electricity bills and reduced or reduced greenhouse gas emissions equal to 30 million metric tons of carbon dioxide.
The program was part of a large, climate friendly funding push
The $ 7 billion solar for all programs was part of $ 27 billion “Green Bank”, which is formally known as the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. It was established in the Democratic-Edited Climate Act passed in 2022 under the former President Joe Biden.
In March, other $ 20 billion canceled by the Trump administration was slated for thousands of projects for eight community development banks and non-profit organizations, such as to combat the effects of climate change, such as large-scale investment for residential energy efficiency projects such as community cooling.
The groups have also filed a case for canceling the money – with a federal judge that they should have access to some funds – although recently, a appeal court ruled that the federal officials could proceed with its termination.
Trump’s attack on environmental policy and regulation
The Trump administration has targeted a host of programs and policies dedicated to clean energy.
Last week, the administration canceled $ 7.6 billion in grants for hundreds of climate-friendly projects in 16 states. It has also intervened with almost complete offshore wind development, transferred to save important ‘danger discovery’ that allows climate regulation, looking at the reporting requirements of greenhouse gas emissions for larger pollutants, and took a group of other delegolate measures.
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