EnergyReader · 2026-08-02 15:37

Senate Democrats demand DOE restore $7.6B in cancelled clean energy grants

By EnergyReader Newsroom · August 2, 2026

A group of Senate Democrats is pressing the Department of Energy to restore $7.6 billion in cancelled clean energy grants after the department's own court filing said the terminations were "based solely on the political identity of the grant recipient's state." The filing, dated July 15 and first reported by the New York Times on Friday (2026-07-24), concedes that last year's sweeping cancellation of Biden-era clean energy awards was politically motivated rather than based on program performance or merit.

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