Court Allows EPA To Cancel $2.5 Billion In EJ Grants, Rejects Class Action

A federal district court is allowing EPA to cancel $2.5 billion in already obligated environmental justice (EJ) block grants, rejecting environmentalists’ efforts to bring a class-action suit against the agency and accepting EPA’s motion to dismiss the case after finding most of the claims belong in federal claims court. Judge Richard Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia delivered EPA a sweeping victory in an Aug. 29 opinion in Appalachian Voices, et al. v. EPA ,...