Latitude Media: DOE to reinstate 11 clean energy grants canceled in ‘blue states’

June 11 -- The Energy Department, under a legal settlement filed in federal court this week, has agreed to reinstate 11 Biden-era financial awards for clean energy technologies that it canceled last October. The settlement marks the second time this year that companies and organizations whose awards were terminated by DOE claimed victory in court. In January, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ordered the department to reinstate seven awards totaling $28 million. Two more sweeping cases — one filed by a coalition of states including California and New York, and another filed by the University of California system — are pending. The lawsuits stem from DOE’s cancellation of more than 300 awards during the government shutdown last fall. At the time, OMB director Russ Vought posted on X that nearly $8 billion in funding was being cut for projects in “blue states.” Learn MORE.