Joe Duhownik
PHOENIX (CN) — Leading a coalition of states and clean energy grant recipients, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes lodged her second lawsuit against the federal government in just two days, accusing the Environmental Protection Agency of illegally ending a $7 billion program that would have brought solar energy to more than 900,000 low-income families across the country, including 11,000 in Arizona.
In the most recent lawsuit filed Thursday morning, Mayes and leaders from 22 other states say EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin illegally withdrew 90% of funds already allocated to recipients across the country, thanks to a misinterpretation of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the Republican Party’s flagship tax and spending law. In the federal complaint filed in