"The ruling overturns a lower-court decision that found Trump was impeding Congress's power to allocate funding for climate initiatives. A United States appeals court has ruled that the administration of President Donald Trump can move forward with terminating more than $16bn in federal grants awarded to climate change nonprofits. On Tuesday, the US Appeals Court for the District of Columbia voted, two to one, to overturn a lower court's decision preventing the grants from being revoked."
"Writing for the majority, Judge Neomi Rao, a Trump appointee, argued that the lower court did not have the power to offer a ruling in the case. Instead, she wrote that the case should have gone to the Court of Federal Claims, dedicated to weighing contract and monetary disputes. District courts have no jurisdiction to hear claims that the federal government terminated a grant agreement arbitrarily or with impunity, Rao wrote."
"Pillard also pointed out that the federal funding was part of the Inflation Reduction Act, a law Congress passed in 2022 that included the single biggest investment in climate change initiatives in US history. The Trump administration's decision to nix the federal grants, Pillard wrote, was done without presenting to any court any credible evidence or coherent reason that could justify its interference with plaintiffs' money and its sabotage of Congress's law."
An appeals court for the District of Columbia allowed the Trump administration to terminate more than $16 billion in federal grants to climate nonprofits, overturning a lower court's injunction. The majority opinion, authored by Judge Neomi Rao, held that district courts lack jurisdiction over claims alleging arbitrary grant termination and that such disputes belong in the Court of Federal Claims as essentially contractual and monetary matters. Judges Rao and Gregory Katsas formed the two-to-one majority. Judge Cornelia Pillard dissented, saying the rollback reflected political opposition to green-energy initiatives and noting the grants originated from the Inflation Reduction Act without credible justification for termination.
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