EPA Administrator Defends Sweeping Grant Terminations Amid Legal Blowback

Inside Climate News · By Aman Azhar · last updated April 21, 2025 – 2:35 PM

At a press gathering, Lee Zeldin doubled down on his decision to cancel billions of dollars in clean energy grants, despite a court ruling calling the move unlawful.

By Aman Azhar

WASHINGTON—EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin on Monday defended his agency’s abrupt cancellation of billions of dollars in federal clean energy and environmental justice grants, insisting the EPA retains discretion to terminate awards despite a federal court ruling that sharply questioned the legal basis for the move.

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