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Mass. officials say court wins restored most federal climate funds but uncertainty remains
Summary
State officials and the attorney general told a Senate committee that a federal court order restored access to most Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Act climate grants, but manual reviews, terminations and other tactics are still delaying some awards and creating operational risk for state agencies and local partners.
Senator Creem convened the hearing to assess how changes in federal policy have affected Massachusetts' climate programs and what the state can do to keep projects moving.
The executive branch and the attorney general said a court order has largely ended the federal funding freeze, but agency witnesses described ongoing obstacles — agency-initiated manual reviews, stop-work notices and contract uncertainty — that continue to threaten project timelines and local partners.
Undersecretary Catherine Antos of the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs said EEA and its agencies have traced more than $1.1 billion in federal climate awards that experienced some level of disruption since January, including temporarily suspended grants that have since been restored. She said the secretariat worked with the attorney general's office to restore access “for most of these grants,” and named specific awards at risk: a conditional $389,000,000 Grid Innovation Program award for the Power Up New England…
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