A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from withholding billions of dollars in funding for electric vehicle (EV) charger infrastructure from 14 states. [emphasis, links added]
U.S. District Judge Tana Lin partially granted a preliminary injunction that was intended to unlock funding for the EV charger buildout.
The ruling comes after President Donald Trump’s Department of Transportation (DOT) in February announced that it was halting billions of dollars in funding for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program, a $5 billion scheme that was established by the Biden administration to install a network of EV chargers across the United States.
In May, 16 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for withholding the funds for the buildout of new EV chargers, alleging the administration did not have the authority to withhold the funds.
“Congress appropriated $5 billion to fund a National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (‘NEVI’) Formula Program, the purpose of which was — and still is — ‘to strategically deploy electric vehicle charging infrastructure and to establish 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, which she ruled did not prove that they would be faced with “irreparable harm” if the funds were not immediately unlocked.
Still, the Trump administration has until July 2 to appeal the ruling.
Former President Joe Biden notably led a sweeping effort to subsidize the production and adoption of EVs during his sole term.
Though the Biden administration vowed to roll out a network of half a million EV chargers across the U.S. by 2030 through the NEVI program, the move faced a spate of slowdowns and logistical hurdles.
Biden appointed Lin to the federal bench in 2021.
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