Solar panels from Damariscotta, Maine. (Photo: Evan Houk/ Maine Morning Star)

Washington – Legal battles over Biden’s Climate Program The increase was increased late Wednesday when the appeals court halted rulings from federal judges requesting payment of these funds.

The ruling by a three-person judge panel in the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals will continue to freeze funds on the Citibank account while federal lawsuits over the program are ongoing.

The appeals court order was made by US district judge Tanya Chatkan. Columbia area It was issued Tuesday when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency temporarily bans grants that “illegally halt or terminate” are available.

The appeals committee said it had no access to the chatcan’s opinion describing the order granting an injunction that came the day after the order itself, so the judge did not meet the high bar required to issue a temporary injunction. The panel’s order “should never be interpreted as a merit ruling,” the judge said.

“The purpose of this order is to give the courts a sufficient opportunity to give the courts the future opinion of the district courts in favour of an order that grants interim injunction along with government appeals,” the judge wrote.

Chat Can Issued her opinion The day after granting the interim injunction, he noted that “despite repeated inquiries to Citibank and the EPA, the plaintiffs received little or no communication from the EPA or Citibank regarding their inability to access funds.”

“Over the night, billions of dollars allocated by Congress were frozen, resulting in a nationwide halt, workplace suspension and millions of dollars paid out in approved transactions with committed partners,” she writes.

Thursday, DC Circuit Panel I asked The government will revise that discussion in response to Chukkan’s opinion by 5pm on Saturday.

I’m fighting for funds

The Climate United Fund and other organizations sued President Donald Trump administration and Citibank Beyond the money frozen in March at the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.

The $27 billion initiative that funds organizations building for energy-efficient projects and other measures to tackle climate change has been approved by Congress as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law in 2022, as Democrats passed the party’s line.

Under Chutkan’s order, the administration has prevented Citibank from “directly or indirectly obstructing” Citibank or “deny, obstruct, delay or otherwise restrict access to funds in accounts established in connection with organizational grants” and “deny, obstruct, delay or otherwise restricted by the bank.

Trump administration I immediately tried that verdict Wednesday at the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

The High Court temporarily blocked the chatcan’s decision.

The Court of Appeal’s decision will suspend a chatcan’s preliminary injunction to the extent that “allows or requests Citibank to release, issuance, assign, transfer or allow access to funds.”

The High Court also prevented the Trump administration from having to file a status report with the district court within 24 hours of entry into the interim injunction that confirmed their compliance, as outlined in the Chatkan ruling.

The Court of Appeal also ordered that “the parties will not act directly or indirectly in relation to dispute agreements, grants, awards or funds.”

EPA I said it in March Ending the $20 billion grant under the program, Lee Zeldin, the agency’s administrator, described the climate initiative as a “gold bar” scheme.

The EPA declined to comment as the Climate United Fund did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.