Judge Sets Aside EPA’s Termination Of Environmental Grants For 3 Nonprofits

( June 23, 2025, 8:12 AM EDT) -- BALTIMORE — A federal judge in Maryland set aside the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s termination of three nonprofit financial institutions’ grant awards supporting environmental initiatives “in disadvantaged communities” for not aligning “with the new administration’s priorities” and ruled that the terminations exceeded the agency’s statutory authority and are arbitrary and capricious in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA)....