By: Jake Goldstein-Street/Washington State Standard | AZMirror
A federal judge in Seattle on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to reinstate federal funding for electric vehicle chargers in Arizona and more than a dozen other states.
For months, billions of dollars from the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program, or NEVI, has been frozen as the Trump administration assesses guidelines established under former President Joe Biden.
U.S. District Court Judge Tana Lin’s preliminary injunction Tuesday reopens the funding in Arizona and 13 other states that sued the administration.
Arizona was set to get more than $60 million from the program, which Congress included in the bipartisan infrastructure law Biden signed in 2021.
Minnesota, Vermont and the District of Columbia were not covered under Lin’s ruling Tuesday, despite being involved in the lawsuit, because they didn’t provide enough evidence of how the funding freeze impacted them.
The judge’s decision won’t go into effect until July 1, to allow the U.S. Department of Justice time to appeal. The case would next go to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
