North Carolina is joining a nationwide lawsuit against federal environmental officials, seeking to block President Donald Trump’s order to cancel billions of dollars in solar grants for low-income families.

Attorney General Jeff Jackson and 21 other state attorneys general sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday. They say Trump's top environmental aide acted illegally when he canceled the grants in August.

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"This is money that North Carolinians have already paid in taxes, that was supposed to come back home," Jackson told WRAL in an interview Thursday. "So we think the law has been broken. We think that money rightfully belongs to North Carolina."

The grants through a program called Solar For All were meant to go to low-income families, and people i

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