Hours after EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin declared on social media that EPA would terminate grants from a major solar energy program, awardees received formal notices that attributed the move to a provision in President Donald Trump’s tax-and-spending megalaw.
EPA sent letters to the 60 state and nonprofit entities administering the $7 billion Solar for All program Thursday evening, soon after awardees discovered they could no longer access the government’s grant-making portal to request reimbursements for program expenditures.
The letters came after Zeldin posted on X that EPA would terminate the program, which he branded a “boondoggle.”
EPA’s termination letters said that Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act rescinded funding for both “grant appropriations and the EPA’s administrative cost appropriation.”
