( August 26, 2026, 9:02 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following a rehearing in which a fractured en banc District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals departed from a split panel decision and affirmed a lower court’s preliminary injunction barring the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from effectuating the termination of National Clean Investment Fund (NCIF) grants, the en banc court granted an unopposed motion filed by the EPA to stay the mandate and extended an administrative stay pending the filing of a petition for a writ of certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court....