{"id":26117,"date":"2025-04-16T16:59:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T16:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26117"},"modified":"2025-04-16T17:23:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T17:23:49","slug":"2-judges-order-federal-agencies-to-unfreeze-climate-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26117","title":{"rendered":"2 Judges Order Federal Agencies to Unfreeze Climate Money"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The rulings are setbacks to Trump\u2019s efforts to halt climate and environmental funding approved under the Biden administration.<\/p>\n

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Two court rulings on Tuesday unfroze hundreds of millions of dollars in federal climate funds, a win for nonprofit groups that have been denied access to money they were promised under the Biden administration.<\/p>\n

Judge Tanya S. Chutkan of the federal court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday ordered the immediate release of up to $625 million in climate grants that have been frozen since mid-February under the $20 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. The fund is also known as the \u201cgreen bank\u201d program and has been a major target of Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.<\/p>\n

Separately, Judge Mary S. McElroy of the federal court for the District of Rhode Island ordered five federal agencies to unfreeze environmental and infrastructure funding that had been awarded to nonprofits during the Biden administration.<\/p>\n

In her ruling, Judge McElroy said the nonprofits had demonstrated in court that the indefinite freeze, put in place by the Trump administration, \u201cwas neither reasonable nor reasonably explained.\u201d She added that the nonprofits were likely to be able to prove that the freezes were \u201cfundamentally arbitrary.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The lawsuits are among many filed against the Trump administration\u2019s moves to freeze billions of dollars in funding that had been awarded through two laws passed in 2021 and 2022, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act.<\/p>\n

Various judges have ordered the administration to unfreeze funds, but the administration has cited legal loopholes<\/a> to avoid doing so. Administration officials have said the pauses are necessary to align with executive orders President Trump has issued since taking office.<\/p>\n

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The rulings are setbacks to Trump\u2019s efforts to halt climate and environmental funding approved under the Biden administration.Two court rulings on Tuesday unfroze hundreds of millions of dollars in federal climate funds, a win for nonprofit groups that have been denied access to money they were promised under the Biden administration.Judge Tanya S. Chutkan of the federal court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday ordered the immediate release of up to $625 million in climate grants that have been frozen since mid-February under the $20 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. The fund is also known as the \u201cgreen bank\u201d program and has been a major target of Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.Separately, Judge Mary S. McElroy of the federal court for the District of Rhode Island ordered five federal agencies to unfreeze environmental and infrastructure funding that had been awarded to nonprofits during the Biden administration.In her ruling, Judge McElroy said the nonprofits had demonstrated in court that the indefinite freeze, put in place by the Trump administration, \u201cwas neither reasonable nor reasonably explained.\u201d She added that the nonprofits were likely to be able to prove that the freezes were \u201cfundamentally arbitrary.\u201dThe lawsuits are among many filed against the Trump administration\u2019s moves to freeze billions of dollars in funding that had been awarded through two laws passed in 2021 and 2022, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act.Various judges have ordered the administration to unfreeze funds, but the administration has cited legal loopholes to avoid doing so. Administration officials have said the pauses are necessary to align with executive orders President Trump has issued since taking office.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26119,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26120,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26117\/revisions\/26120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}