EPA’s Cancellation of Justice Grants Upheld as Contractual Move

Environmental groups and local municipalities must bring their lawsuit over the Trump administration’s termination of green grants to the US Court of Federal Claims, after a federal judge said the challenge was contractual in nature.

The US District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a case brought by dozens of recipients of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grant Program, ruling the plaintiffs can’t bring an Administrative Procedure Act lawsuit for en masse grant terminations following the US Supreme Court’s decision in Department of Education v. California.

Under this High Court standard, the government has ...