EPA Appeals Grant Funding Freeze Suit After Nonprofits Get Preliminary Injunction

( April 16, 2025, 4:01 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency filed a notice of appeal on April 16 to the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals seeking to overturn a federal judge’s order that granted a preliminary injunction enjoining the EPA from effectuating the termination of National Clean Investment Fund (NCIF) grants to three nonprofit financial organizations and a group of state “green banks” and ordered the bank that administers the grants to “disburse any funds properly incurred” prior to the EPA’s suspension of the grant program in mid-February....