Washington Attorney General Nick Brown filed another lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday, this time over cuts to state energy resilience and affordability programs.

This is the second lawsuit Brown has filed against the federal government this month; in this one, Washington is joined by 18 other states and the District of Columbia.

In May the U.S. Department of Energy announced it would slash financial assistance for indirect costs that states incur for grid resilience, efficiency and affordability programs. Those types of indirect costs include things like building depreciation, rent, equipment and maintenance expenses.

The amount of money that states could get from the federal government for indirect program costs used to be something they’d negotiate; no

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