ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison joined a muti-state suit in against the Trump Administration for killing state grants for pollution-reducing projects. Cancelling the “gree grants,” Ellison said, was “yet one more illegal power grab by the Trump administration.” Co-plaintiffs with Mjnnesota were attorneys general from California, Illinois and Maine. The lawsuit accuses Trump’s reconfigured U.S. Environmental Protection of freezing funds that Congress had approved for pollution-reducing projects. The suit also blames Citibank for “improperly complying with the government’s campaign of intimidation and freezing funds that it is required by Congress to distribute.”
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Ellison: “If the current president wants to ask Congress to repeal the act and the funding that goes along with it, he is free to do so, but no president or federal agency can single-handedly undo an act of Congress, much less in the improper and disgraceful way this president and EPA have tried to go about it.”