The battle over $20 billion worth of climate-related funding authorized by Congress continues as an appellate court ruled on Tuesday in favor of the Environmental Protection Agency, which had terminated Biden-era grants made to nonprofits.

The legal tussle stems from EPA administrator Lee Zeldin’s decision to cancel grants dispersed as part of the Inflation Reduction Act . Zeldin said that the grants did not match the EPA’s current priorities and claimed, without evidence, that he had concerns about fraud.

A district court had previously ruled that Zeldin’s actions were “arbitrary and capricious.”

The two majority justices, both Trump appointees, wrote that Zeldin’s cancellation of the contracts was valid and that the government “must ensure proper oversight and management” of the g

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