The Environmental Protection Agency’s attempt to reclaim $20 billion of the Biden administration’s out-the-door climate change grants has been blocked by a federal judge.

District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan ruled in favor of Climate United Fund (granted $6.9 billion), Coalition for Green Capital (granted $5 billion), Opportunity Finance Network (granted $2.8 billion) and others that sued Administrator Lee Zeldin, the EPA and Citibank for withholding the grant money.

Chutkan ordered the disbursement of any and all funds incurred before the EPA’s mid-February suspension. However, the EPA maintains that the D.C. District Court lacks jurisdiction to reinstate the grants.

“These grants are terminated, and the funds belong to the U.S. taxpayer,” an EPA spokesperson told the Epoch Times . “T

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