Democratic U.S. House members from North Carolina on Thursday condemned the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to cancel $7 billion in grants for the Solar for All program, created under the Biden administration to expand access to solar energy in low-income and disadvantaged communities.

Among those grants was $156 million awarded April 2024 to a state coalition—the N.C. Clean Energy Fund, the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality, Advanced Energy and the N.C. Clean Energy Technology Center.

That effort had received about $1 million in early planning funds as of March 2025, according to DEQ spokesperson Sascha Medina, but a recent dollar figure was not immediately available.

“We strongly urge you to reverse this decision, which will raise energy costs for our constituents, elimi

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