{"id":40918,"date":"2025-05-08T01:08:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T01:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/more-than-a-dozen-states-sue-department-of-transportation-over-ev-charging-station-funds\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T01:08:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T01:08:56","slug":"more-than-a-dozen-states-sue-department-of-transportation-over-ev-charging-station-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/more-than-a-dozen-states-sue-department-of-transportation-over-ev-charging-station-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"More than a dozen states sue Department of Transportation over EV charging station funds"},"content":{"rendered":"

A group of blue states<\/a> joined forces Wednesday to sue the Trump administration after it halted a program that federally funded electric vehicle charging infrastructure.<\/p>\n

The District of Columbia joined 16 states \u2014 including California, Colorado and Washington<\/a> \u2014 in a suit over the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)’s efforts to halt Congress\u2019 $5 billion National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program to expand electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump<\/a> on Jan. 20 mandated that federal agencies pause disbursement of all funds appropriated under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act, including NEVI program funding.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Federal Highway Administration notified states in February that it was revoking previous state plan approvals and withholding or withdrawing NEVI program funds.<\/p>\n

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The lawsuit claims the FHWA is acting unlawfully, devastating the ability of states to build the charging infrastructure needed to make EVs accessible to more consumers, combat climate change and pollution and support the states\u2019 green economies.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It asks the court to declare Trump\u2019s directives unlawful, vacate the actions and permanently stop the administration from withholding the funds.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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In addition to the $300 million and $71 million in funding California and Washington stand to lose, respectively, the blue states previously adopted zero-emission vehicle standards that require a percentage of vehicles sold in the states to release zero emissions.<\/p>\n

Washington’s laws further require all new passenger cars, light-duty trucks and medium-duty vehicles sold in the state to be zero emissions by 2035.\u00a0<\/p>\n

California\u2019s State Electric Vehicle<\/a> Infrastructure Deployment Plan anticipated that California would need hundreds of thousands of additional EV charging ports to support passenger cars and trucks and “incrementally more” charging ports for medium- and heavy-duty trucks and buses to meet climate goals, according to a news release from the state.<\/p>\n

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“When America retreats, China wins,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom<\/a> said in the release. “President Trump\u2019s illegal action withholding funds for electric vehicle infrastructure is yet another Trump gift to China \u2014 ceding American innovation and killing thousands of jobs. Instead of hawking Teslas on the White House lawn, President Trump could actually help Elon \u2014 and the nation \u2014 by following the law and releasing this bipartisan funding.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

The lawsuit comes as Democratic politicians, late-night hosts and political commentators have been touting Tesla’s plummeting stock<\/a> and acts of vandalism against its vehicles, dealerships and charging stations.<\/p>\n

The criminal acts have been linked by the FBI to nationwide protests against Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).<\/a><\/p>\n

California, Colorado and Washington are leading the suit, joined by attorneys general from Arizona, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A group of blue states joined forces Wednesday to sue the Trump administration after it halted a program that federally funded electric vehicle charging infrastructure. The District of Columbia joined 16 states \u2014 including California, Colorado and Washington \u2014 in a suit over the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)’s efforts to halt Congress\u2019 $5 billion National … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}