Almost two dozen local governments, environmental justice groups and other challengers are appealing a judge’s decision that stopped them from accessing almost $3 billion in EPA grants funds halted by the Trump administration.
In a filing Friday, North Carolina-based Appalachian Voices; Kalamazoo County, Michigan; and other plaintiffs took their lawsuit to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
The appeal was expected. They are seeking to overturn the August ruling by U.S. District Judge Richard Leon of the District of Columbia, which denied their motion for a preliminary injunction and found that the suit belonged before the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
They had initially sued in June, alleging that EPA under President Donald Trump illegally terminated the environmental justice and climate grant program created by Congress in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act during the Biden administration.
