Oregon isn’t giving up on $86.6 million in solar project funding canceled by the Trump administration that was supposed to pay for substantial electric bill discounts for low-income people and other disadvantaged residents throughout the state.

The Oregon Department of Energy has filed a challenge with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which terminated the grant for the Solar for All program though it had already been awarded under a legally binding agreement.

The state requested that the EPA rescind the cancellation and release the money as promised.

The EPA awarded the money to Oregon last July – part of the $7 billion in Solar for All awards nationwide. The funding was established under President Joe Biden’s mammoth Inflation Reduction Act passed by Congress and aimed a

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