Energy Department Will Continue Fight Over Grant Funding Cuts

The Energy Department plans to appeal a court ruling that partly struck down the department’s rescinding of clean energy grant funding to blue states, Secretary Chris Wright said Thursday.

Wright, at a hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy, said the department couldn’t yet launch the appeal because it’s waiting for a final decision in the case. A spokesperson for the DOE didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment asking for more information.

Wright’s remarks were in reference to a lawsuit from St. Paul, Minn., and clean energy supporters against the Trump administration over its ...