States Sue Trump Administration Over Funding Freeze for EV Charging

States Sue Trump Administration Over Funding Freeze for EV Charging

A coalition of states led by Washington, Colorado and California sued the Trump administration on Wednesday, charging that it was unlawfully withholding billions of dollars allocated by Congress for electric-vehicle charging stations across the United States. The 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law provided $5 billion to states to build stations around the country. So far, 71…

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18 States Sue Over Trump’s Halting of Wind Power Projects

18 States Sue Over Trump’s Halting of Wind Power Projects

Eighteen states sued the Trump administration Monday over its halting of permits for wind-energy projects, arguing that its actions posed an existential threat to the burgeoning industry. “This administration is devastating one of our nation’s fastest-growing sources of clean, reliable and affordable energy,” said Attorney General Letitia James of New York, which is one of…

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A ‘Business-Friendly’ Lawyer’s Rise From Lobbyist to Attorney General Pick

A ‘Business-Friendly’ Lawyer’s Rise From Lobbyist to Attorney General Pick

Halfway through the first Trump administration, Carnival Corporation, the world’s biggest cruise line, had a problem in Cuba that it wanted the president to fix. So Carnival, a Miami-based company, hired a new lobbyist: Pam Bondi, who developed a close relationship with Donald J. Trump during her two terms as Florida’s attorney general, the state’s…

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