A group of nonprofits on Thursday joined a lawsuit that seeks to stop the Trump administration from halting a $5 billion federal effort to build electric vehicle charging stations.
The nine nonprofits, representing mostly environmental and EV interests, said in a joint statement that they opposed the Trump administration’s “unlawful and indefinite freeze of billions in federal funding.”
The lawsuit was filed earlier this month by 16 states with Democratic leadership that want federal courts to force the U.S. Department of Transportation to release the money. That prompted an angry response from DOT Secretary Sean Duffy, who said the pause was necessary because the Biden administration “failed miserably” to deploy the charging stations.
In related news, on Thursday the Government Accountability Office ordered DOT to release the money, asserting that the department had no authority to halt funding that had been approved by Congress.
