Referees alongside Trump Environmental Protection Agency due to granting the law to reduce null inflation to non -profit organizations

The battle, which is worth more than $ 20 billion in the climate -related financing that Congress declares as a law of appeal on Tuesday in favor of the Environmental Protection Agency, which has ended grants from the Biden era that was submitted to non -profit organizations.

The legal conflict stems from the decision of the EPA Zeldin official to cancel Grants that have been dispensed as part of the law to reduce inflation. Zeldin said that the grants do not coincide with the priorities of the current Environmental Protection Agency and claimed, without evidence, that he had fears about fraud.

It was a local court Previously Judgment Zilden’s actions were “arbitrary and volatile”.

The majority judges, both of whom were appointed by Trump, wrote that the cancellation of Zealin for contracts was valid and that the government “must guarantee the appropriate oversight and management” for grants. They were martyred to support their decision a secret video clip taken by Project Veritas, a conservative activist group It has been deceived in a deceptive manner Videos.

In March, the court files revealed that the Environmental Protection Agency with the FBI and the Inspector of the Environmental Protection Agency Citibank Instructions To freeze the money that was already placed in the accounts controlled by non -profit organizations. Money is largely used in loans, which will be paid and reused.

The relevant grants are granted to a group of non -profit organizations, including Climate United and Power Forward. At the time of the March hearing, Climate United adhered to projects of $ 392 million based on money in its accounts, including $ 63 million for solar energy developments in Oregon and Idahu and another $ 31.8 million in solar energy projects in Arkansas countryside. Power Forward has committed $ 539 million and said that the freezing left was unable to pay suspended contractors.

Zeldin claimed that fraud was one of his main concerns, despite his lengthy achievement by the interim American lawyer in Washington, DC, Failure to raise any useful evidenceAccording to a report in the New York Times.

Perhaps the result of lack of evidence on fraud, the arguments of the Environmental Protection Agency focus before the Court of Appeal on the contractual nature of the grant. The majority of the judges agreed that the issue should be heard by the American Federal Claims Court, not the wider federal judiciary.

The opposition justice, one of the appointed Obama, said that the Environmental Protection Agency “has no legal basis – not even an unusual assertion of any basis – to intervene in financing, according to the instructions of Congress, already belongs to the plaintiffs.”

Prosecutors may appeal the US Supreme Court. If they fail there, the Environmental Protection Agency may remain responsible for billions of dollars, according to Legal analysis By her lawyers.