Following a drawn-out back-and-forth between Nevada’s clean energy advocates and the Trump administration, the state’s chief legal officer has stepped in.

Alongside representatives from 22 other states that experienced funding cuts, as well as the District of Columbia, Attorney General Aaron Ford filed a lawsuit last week in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in hopes of recovering a $155.7 million grant awarded through the Environmental Protection Agency’s Solar for All program.

According to Ford, more than $150 million of that grant had not been disbursed when the EPA terminated it in August .

“President Trump has tried to illegally claw back funds from Nevada after hardworking residents of our state have put in the work to address our energy needs,” Ford said in a Thursday statement. “

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