March 18 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from recovering grant funds issued as part of a $20 billion climate funding program that President Donald Trump's administration has moved to terminate.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington issued a temporary restraining order, opens new tab halting the EPA's termination of three environmental nonprofit groups' grant agreements and barring Citibank from dispersing grant funding held at the bank in their accounts.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington issued a temporary restraining order, opens new tab halting the EPA's termination of three environmental nonprofit groups' grant agreements and barring Citibank from dispersing grant funding held at the bank in their accounts.