California regulators and solar industry stakeholders are denouncing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's decision to eliminate the Solar for All grant program, designed to bring solar energy to low-income households.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the termination of the $7 billion program on Thursday, initiated in 2023 under the Biden administration's Inflation Reduction Act , calling it a "boondoggle" and a "grift" that he claimed was being diluted by middlemen taking cuts from the awarded grants.

In a joint statement on Thursday, the California Public Utilities Commission, California Energy Commission, and Labor and Workforce Development Agency called the EPA's ending of the program "unlawful," saying it would increase the cost of community solar and storage projec

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