Judge overturns DOE’s cancellation of $82.1M in clean energy grants

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The U.S. Department of Energy is expected to reinstate $82.1 million in funding for 11 cancelled clean energy grants that were awarded by the Biden administration, after a federal judge vacated the cancellations on Thursday.

The plaintiffs — a coalition of groups led by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers — cited a similar case settled in January, in which DOE was ordered to reverse $27.6 billion in grant cancellations and did not contest that a primary reason for their cancellation was that the grantees were located in states that voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris.

“Plaintiffs in the present case are seven DOE awardees who, like the Saint Paul plaintiffs, are located in a Blue State and had one or more DOE awards terminated in the same October 2025 set of DOE terminations that were at issue in Saint Paul,” the plaintiffs wrote.