The ruling overturns a lower-court decision that found Trump was impeding Congress’s power to allocate funding for climate initiatives.
A United States appeals court has ruled that the administration of President Donald Trump can move forward with terminating more than $16bn in federal grants awarded to climate change nonprofits.
On Tuesday, the US Appeals Court for the District of Columbia voted, two to one, to overturn a lower court’s decision preventing the grants from being revoked.
Writing for the majority, Judge Neomi Rao, a Trump appointee, argued that the lower court did not have the power to offer a ruling in the case.
Instead, she wrote that the case should have gone to the Court of Federal Claims, dedicated to weighing contract and monetary disputes.
