A $7 billion federal government grant program for solar promotion, authorized during the Biden administration, was reinstated by a federal judge Friday in a ruling that rebuffed the Trump administration’s efforts to cancel it.
Mary McElroy, a U.S. district court judge for the Rhode Island district, wrote in her ruling that the current Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) “termination of the Solar for All program is declared unlawful.”
Money was appropriated in 2022 for a Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund under the Inflation Reduction Act that later spawned the $7 billion Solar for All grant program in June 2023. Congress at the time dedicated billions to the program and a separate smaller amount in the millions for its administration by the EPA….