Court Deals Devastating Blow to Greendoggle

The DC Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a devastating blow to the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund program today, insisting that the grantees must take their claims to the Court of Federal Claims to pursue what is effectively a contract dispute. While an appeal to the full bench is likely, PPT applauds the persistence of the Trump Administration to protect taxpayer dollars from a program that we have scrutinized for years as full of potential for abuse and conflicts of interest, identified as such by the Biden EPA’s own reviewers.

PPT Director Michael Chamberlain responded to the ruling:

“This is certainly a welcome development in this saga. This program was ill-conceived, poorly thought out, and horribly executed. This ruling reveals merely another example of those flaws, with the plaintiffs attempting to forum shop their way out of the myriad procedural and administrative defects over the program’s lifespan. This ruling seems to vindicate those of us who have raised alarm bells on this Greendoggle for years. We applaud the EPA and Administrator Zeldin for aggressively seeking to rein in this program, likely saving the taxpayers billions of dollars that otherwise would have been the subject of waste, abuse, and cronyism.”

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