A federal appeals court on Tuesday grilled both the Trump administration and the nonprofits picked to run a $20 billion “green bank” program over the termination of their contacts, questioning whether federal officials made up reasons to block the program and whether the nonprofits were demanding access to money that wasn't technically theirs to control.
The judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit are considering the fate of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a congressionally-authorized Biden administration-era program aimed at sparking clean energy investments that the Trump administration has targeted for cancellation. Both sides came in for sharp questioning during three hours of oral arguments.
