Whiny Judge Whines At EPA For Cancelling Climate Scam Grants

Yeah, these would be all those types of grants where the EPA gives private groups money to Do Something, but, there are no action plans, no end results, and no oversight, and the money just disappears with almost nothing having been done. Except enriching the recipients

Judge Slams EPA for Canceling Climate Grants With ‘No Rational Explanation’

A Washington, D.C., Circuit Court judge issued a sharp rebuke Wednesday to the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency, saying the EPA made accusations of fraud without evidence and overstepped the bounds of its authority when it canceled climate funding agreements with green bank groups.

Judge Tanya Chutkan‘s stinging 39-page memorandum opinion granting the climate groups a preliminary injunction said that EPA acted “arbitrarily and capriciously,” failed to explain its reasoning and acted “contrary to its regulations” when it suspended and then terminated the grants.

“Though repeatedly pressed on the issue, EPA offers no rational explanation for why it suspended the grants,” Chutkan wrote. “Nor has EPA offered any rational explanation for why it needed to cancel the grants to safeguard taxpayer resources.”

They do not need any explanation: it’s the People’s money, and all these groups are not entitled to it, especially since their groups were not specifically mentioned in the funding law.

Chutkan’s order included a stern warning about what can happen when agencies “fail to operate within the bounds of the law.”

The law requires that funding is tracked and has actual purpose, not be handed out to friendly NGOs and stuff.

Anyhow, lots of Credentialed Media are happy to report

• Judge rules against Trump admin after it couldn’t find evidence of fraud in clean energy program
• Judge blocks Trump EPA from clawing back billions in Biden-era climate grants
• 2 Judges Order Federal Agencies to Unfreeze Climate Money

Plenty more links like those. Not as many for

Donald Trump Scores Legal Win Over Judge Chutkan

A court has temporarily blocked a ruling from U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan regarding the funding of former President Joe Biden’s climate programs.

The D.C. Court of Appeals halted the judge’s Tuesday ruling that ordered Citibank to release billions of dollars in green bank grants as part of Biden’s 2022 climate, tax and health care bill. (snip)

The Court of Appeals has now issued a partial stay on Chutkan’s ruling in order to give the court “sufficient opportunity” to examine it.

In its ruling, the court said that Chutkhan’s reasoning for her Tuesday decision did not meet the standard required for such an injunction.

In other words, she overstepped her bounds. And this block came on the same day as her order. Just because the money was appropriated doesn’t mean the companies are entitled to it.

I wonder if the judge has a stake in the money? Or, just TDS?

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