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By Niina H. Farah | 02/13/2026 06:35 AM EST
Solar for All sought to provide grant funding for residential solar. EPA canceled the program last year.
Solar panels on rooftops of a housing development in Folsom, California, on Feb. 12, 2020. Rich Pedroncelli/AP
Eighty-four Democratic lawmakers are urging a federal court to restore EPA funding for a program aimed at increasing access to rooftop solar for low-income and disadvantaged Americans.
In a “friend of the court” brief filed Wednesday, Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, New Jersey Rep. Frank Pallone, Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, who caucuses with the Democrats, and 81 other lawmakers said EPA had acted outside of its authority by rescinding $7 billion in obligated funding for Solar for All — one of three programs that were part of the now defunct Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.
“EPA’s elimination of the Solar for All program was not justified, and this Court should restore the status quo before EPA’s wrongful terminations,” the lawmakers told the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Congress repealed the fund under the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act. While the law allowed the rescission of unobligated project funds, “Congress could not have been clearer” about its intent to allow obligated funding to remain in place, lawmakers said.
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