The Trump administration is being sued by a coalition of 16 states and the District of Columbia over claims it is withholding billions of dollars in funding approved by Congress to build electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, according to a federal lawsuit announced on April 7.
The lawsuit is led by attorneys general from California, Colorado, and Washington and was filed in the District Court for the Western District of Washington.
It centers on the $5 billion in funding allocated under the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program in 2022 to facilitate electric vehicle charging infrastructure in the states.
As Katabella Roberts reports for The Epoch Times, that funding was established through the Biden administration’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, amid a push towards achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 and making at least 500,000 publicly available EV chargers in the United States by the end of this decade.
Congress required the $5 billion funding to be distributed among the states over fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
So far, an estimated $3.3 billion had already been made available, according…
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