{"id":579,"date":"2025-10-13T16:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/579\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T16:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:36:07","slug":"texas-county-sues-epa-for-withholding-solar-program-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/579\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas County Sues EPA for Withholding Solar Program Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas\u2019 largest county sued the Trump administration Monday for canceling its $250 million \u201cSolar for All\u201d grant set to fund solar energy infrastructure in low-income communities.<\/p>\n<p>Harris County, Tex. alleged the Environmental Protection Agency illegally withheld the funds as Congress appropriated the money under the Inflation Reduction Act, according to the complaint filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>The One Big Beautiful Bill Act President Donald Trump signed into law in July rescinds only \u201cunobligated balances\u201d <a data-terminal-id=\"SCCMRXDWRGG0\" href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/environment-and-energy\/epa-announces-7-billion-in-solar-for-all-grants-for-60-awardees\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from<\/a> the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, and the statute can\u2019t retroactively repeal the Solar for All program, the lawsuit &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas\u2019 largest county sued the Trump administration Monday for canceling its $250 million \u201cSolar for All\u201d grant set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[958,956,957,955,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-infrastructure-funding","tag-infrastructure-legislation","tag-separation-of-powers","tag-solar-energy","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}