The Trump administration is canceling $7.6 billion in grants that supported clean energy projects in 16 states — including Colorado, where more than $550 million in funding is set to be eliminated in what the state decried as “politically motivated targeting.”

The U.S. Department of Energy said in a statement Thursday that 223 projects were terminated nationwide after a review determined they did not adequately advance the nation’s energy needs or were not economically viable.

Twenty entities in Colorado were on that list, including the University of Colorado, Colorado School of Mines, Tri-State Generation and Transmission, businesses dedicated to emissions reductions such as solar companies, and nonprofits that promote clean energy — including one that works with Indian tribes on clean

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