Judge Temporarily Blocks EPA Attempt To Scuttle ‘Green Bank’ Grants

A federal district court judge is temporarily blocking EPA’s attempt to terminate three multi-billion-dollar grants under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GHGRF) program while the court rules on the broader legality of EPA’s push to scuttle the grants, finding that agency officials have not offered sufficient evidence of wrongdoing. Pending a decision on the case’s merits, EPA and Citibank “are enjoined from giving effect to” to March 11 termination letters that EPA sent to the three major grant recipients suing...