Investigate the EPA's Refusal to Release Solar For All Funds

Investigate the EPA's refusal to release $7 billion in congressionally approved Solar For All funds. A federal court has already ordered the agency to disburse the money, yet the EPA continues to sit on it. That is not a policy disagreement. That is defiance of both Congress and the courts. These funds were specifically allocated to expand solar access in low-income communities. Massachusetts and Michigan were approved for $156 million. Arkansas was set to receive over $93 million. Energy costs have surged across the country, and this program had the potential, in the words of Conservation Law Foundation attorney James Crowley, to "lower people's energy bills, get inexpensive clean electricity on the grid, and help the communities that the Solar For All program was designed to help." EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin dismissed it as a "boondoggle" and froze the money anyway. Congress approved these funds. A federal court upheld them. The EPA has no legal authority to simply refuse. An investigation into this obstruction is not optional. It is the only appropriate response to an agency that has decided its own preferences outweigh the law.