A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from withholding billions of dollars in electric vehicle (EV) charger infrastructure funds from 14 states. [emphasis, links added]
U.S. District Judge Tana Lin partially granted a preliminary injunction designed to unlock funds for EV chargers’ buildings.
The ruling comes after President Donald Trump's Department of Transportation (DOT) announced in February that it would stop providing billions of dollars in funding for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) formula program, a $5 billion program established by Biden Imparitions to install the EV Chargers network throughout the United States.
In May, 16 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for withholding funds from new EV chargers, accusing the administration of not having the right to withhold funds.
“Congress allocates $5 billion to fund the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure ('Nevi') Formula Program, whose purpose is – and remains – 'strategically deploying EV charging infrastructure and building an interconnected network to facilitate data collection, access and reliability,'' according to Lin's order.”
The order does not apply to Minnesota, the District of Columbia and Vermont, and she ruled that if the funds are not unlocked immediately, the order will not prove that they will face “irreparable harm.”
Nevertheless, the Trump administration must appeal the ruling by July 2.
Former President Joe Biden has made a huge effort in particular to subsidize the production and adoption of electric vehicles for his only term.
Although the Biden administration vows to have a network of 500,000 EV chargers across the United States by 2030 through the NEVI program, the move faces a series of slowdowns and logistical hurdles.
Biden appointed Lin as a federal judge in 2021.
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