Trump EPA claws back $7B in solar funding already promised to states
Source: Nebraska Examiner
By: Jacob Fischler - August 9, 2025 5:00 am
Several congressional Democrats on Friday slammed the Trump administration’s announcement it will cancel nearly $7 billion in grants to fund solar energy projects for low-income households, saying the move was illegal and would raise families’ energy prices if allowed to proceed.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sent notices to states and other recipients of grants through the Solar for All program, which Democrats created in their massive 2022 taxes, energy and domestic policy law, that the agency was canceling all unspent funds from the initiative.
The EPA said Republicans eliminated the federal fund that distributed the program’s money in the “one big, beautiful” law President Donald Trump signed on July 4.
On Thursday, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said on social media the law terminated the agency’s legal ability to distribute the funds.
Read more: https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/08/09/repub/trump-epa-claws-back-7b-in-solar-funding-already-promised-to-states/
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