The ruling regarding environmental justice block grants could be reflected in other grant termination litigation, including over the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.
EPA argues that the second-largest source of U.S. greenhouse gas pollution contributes too little to the world’s climate problem to be worth regulating.
The high court ruled the National Environmental Policy Act requires agencies to consider only the direct effects of a project rather than its broader impacts.
The Trump administration's effort to regain control of $20 billion in already-distributed funding could expose the agency to billions in damages, a career lawyer wrote in an internal message obtained by POLITICO.
"Here we are, weeks in, and you're still unable to proffer me any information with regard to any kind of investigation or malfeasance," U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said.
The move comes just one day before a federal judge will hold a hearing in a lawsuit brought by one of the grant recipients seeking access to the funds the Trump administration had frozen while it probed the program.
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