"Judges Say EPA Can Take Back Billions In Climate Grants" [1]
"The ruling Tuesday lifts an injunction that prevented the agency from clawing back the money for renewable energy in lower-income communities."
"A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that EPA can terminate $20 billion in climate grants that was awarded to nonprofit groups last year.
The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit would allow EPA to claw back the balance of those grants now held in accounts at Citibank. But the court left the accounts frozen for seven days after the opinion was issued to allow grantees to petition for an appeal.
The judges found that the nonprofit grantees challenging the Trump administration’s termination of the grants offered through the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund “are not likely to succeed on the merits because their claims are essentially contractual.”"