Climate grant cancellations
Zeldin v. Climate United Fund
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- The EPA terminated grant agreements with Climate United Fund and other organizations, and a district court issued an order stopping the terminations (an injunction).
- What's at stake
- The district court order stopped EPA’s terminations of agreements with Climate United Fund and the other grant recipients; the Supreme Court has not decided whether to review the challenge.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and other federal officials have filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to review whether the recipients can challenge the terminations in district court and whether the repealed law that created the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund supports that order.
The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund was created under the law the recipients say EPA violated; that law has since been repealed.
Question presented
1. Whether the Tucker Act, 28 U.S.C. 1491(a)(1), precludes respondents from challenging in district court the termination of grant agreements by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 2. Whether respondents’ claim that EPA’s grant terminations violated the now-repealed statute authorizing the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, 42 U.S.C. 7434 (2024), can support the district court’s injunction against those terminations.
What happens next
The next step is for the Court to decide whether to hear the case. No oral argument is scheduled, and no timing for that decision is available.
Each side's argument
- Lee Zeldin and other EPA officials
- They argue that the Tucker Act bars the grant recipients from challenging the terminations in district court and that the repealed fund law cannot support the injunction.
- Climate United Fund and the other grant recipients
- They claim EPA’s terminations violated the law that created the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.
Documents
Docket activity
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More questions
- What is the Tucker Act issue?
- EPA asks whether the Tucker Act blocks the grant recipients from challenging the terminations in district court.
- How does the repealed fund law factor into the case?
- The recipients claim EPA violated that law, and EPA asks whether their claim can support the district court’s injunction.
Sources
Primary materials plus reporting. Best-effort analysis: this explainer relies on a mix of primary materials and trusted secondary sources. Official filings and opinions remain authoritative.