{"id":27374,"date":"2025-05-07T22:29:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T22:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27374"},"modified":"2025-05-07T23:26:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T23:26:54","slug":"states-sue-trump-administration-over-funding-freeze-for-ev-charging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27374","title":{"rendered":"States Sue Trump Administration Over Funding Freeze for EV Charging"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A lawsuit led by Washington, Colorado and California accuses the Trump administration of unlawfully withholding funds for new charging stations.<\/p>\n

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A coalition of states led by Washington, Colorado and California sued the Trump administration on Wednesday, charging that it was unlawfully withholding billions of dollars allocated by Congress for electric-vehicle charging stations across the United States.<\/p>\n

The 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law provided $5 billion to states to build stations around the country. So far, 71 stations have been built, with many more in development, according to the research firm Atlas Public Policy.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit<\/a>, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle, states that federal agencies have unlawfully frozen those funds and halted approvals for new stations, depriving states of critical resources and damaging the growing electric-vehicle industry.<\/p>\n

The White House budget proposal released last week<\/a> said that it was canceling funding for \u201cfailed electric-vehicle-charger grant programs.\u201d President Trump had already taken aim at the program in a January executive order<\/a>, and the Transportation Department followed with a similar memo the next month<\/a>. But cutting the funding entirely would require approval from Congress, the lawsuit argued.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe president continues his unconstitutional attempts to withhold funding that Congress appropriated to programs he dislikes,\u201d said Rob Bonta, the California attorney general. \u201cThis time he\u2019s illegally stripping away billions of dollars for electric vehicle charging infrastructure, all to line the pockets of his Big Oil friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nearly two million \u201czero-emission vehicles\u201d have been sold in California, one-third of the nationwide total and part of a longstanding effort in the famously car-centric state to reduce air pollution. California had been relying on $384 million from the federal program for charging stations, according to Mr. Bonta\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

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A lawsuit led by Washington, Colorado and California accuses the Trump administration of unlawfully withholding funds for new charging stations.A coalition of states led by Washington, Colorado and California sued the Trump administration on Wednesday, charging that it was unlawfully withholding billions of dollars allocated by Congress for electric-vehicle charging stations across the United States.The 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law provided $5 billion to states to build stations around the country. So far, 71 stations have been built, with many more in development, according to the research firm Atlas Public Policy.The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle, states that federal agencies have unlawfully frozen those funds and halted approvals for new stations, depriving states of critical resources and damaging the growing electric-vehicle industry.The White House budget proposal released last week said that it was canceling funding for \u201cfailed electric-vehicle-charger grant programs.\u201d President Trump had already taken aim at the program in a January executive order, and the Transportation Department followed with a similar memo the next month. But cutting the funding entirely would require approval from Congress, the lawsuit argued.\u201cThe president continues his unconstitutional attempts to withhold funding that Congress appropriated to programs he dislikes,\u201d said Rob Bonta, the California attorney general. \u201cThis time he\u2019s illegally stripping away billions of dollars for electric vehicle charging infrastructure, all to line the pockets of his Big Oil friends.\u201dNearly two million \u201czero-emission vehicles\u201d have been sold in California, one-third of the nationwide total and part of a longstanding effort in the famously car-centric state to reduce air pollution. California had been relying on $384 million from the federal program for charging stations, according to Mr. Bonta\u2019s 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":27376,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27374","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\/27374","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=27374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27377,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27374\/revisions\/27377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}