On April 15, 2025, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to take immediate action to reinstate the funding from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) that had already been awarded, after the president had frozen it on his first day in office. [1] Judge Mary McElroy of the US District court for Rhode Island ordered the Environmental Protection Agency and the Departments of Energy, Housing and Urban Development, and Interior and Agriculture to release the awards that were previously withheld, after the ruling. [2] The ruling applies to all awardees across the nation and will remain in effect until McElroy rules on the merits of the lawsuit. The ruling impedes President Trump’s plans to block the Biden administration’s climate funding law, which provides billions of dollars and tax credits for domestic manufacturers. The IIJA provides billions of dollars in clean energy funding. After the funding freeze, six nonprofits sued the agencies in March in an attempt to access their funding, after the other court orders had failed. McElroy’s grant of a preliminary injunction requires agencies to turn the funding back on while the case is pending.

[1] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.59116/gov.uscourts.rid.59116.45.0.pdf

[2] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.59116/gov.uscourts.rid.59116.1.0.pdf