April 17, 2025
The D.C. Circuit has paused a federal court's order directing Citibank to start disbursing funds to nonprofits undertaking climate change projects that were appropriated by Congress to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency during the Biden administration.
April 16, 2025
A D.C. federal judge has ordered Citibank NA to start disbursing Biden-era federal grant funding to nonprofits working on climate change projects, and blocked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's effort to terminate the grants.
April 02, 2025
A D.C. federal judge on Wednesday pressed a U.S. Department of Justice lawyer about the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's explanation for cutting off $20 billion in grant money for climate change projects as a trio of nonprofits seek to turn the funding back on.
April 01, 2025
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Citibank on Monday said four state infrastructure financing entities that accuse them of illegally withholding federal grant funding have no grounds to support an effort to get the money flowing again.
March 24, 2025
Three nonprofits awarded billions of dollars under climate change investment initiatives established under the Inflation Reduction Act have asked a federal judge to restore their access to grant funds that they claim the Trump administration has unlawfully blocked.
March 19, 2025
A Washington, D.C., federal judge said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency hasn't provided an adequate explanation for its termination of $20 billion in grant funding for climate change projects and blocked it from taking further action — but declined to order that the money be released.
March 12, 2025
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency told a D.C. federal judge Wednesday that its cancelation of $20 billion in grant funding for climate change projects renders moot Climate United Fund's claim that Citibank is illegally denying its disbursement requests.
March 10, 2025
A climate-change-focused nonprofit is accusing Citibank NA and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in D.C. federal court of breaching a contract to deliver billions of dollars in grant funding that's been frozen by the Trump administration.