According to foreign media reports, Mary McElroy, a federal judge in Rhode Island, recently ruled that the Trump administration had previously terminated $ 7 billion (about 46.8706 billion yuan). The solar subsidy scheme of US $1 (RMB 6.6958) violates relevant laws .
It is understood that the solar energy subsidy program was launched during the Biden administration.
In 2022, the U.S. Congress passed the Biden Administration's core climate investment bill, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and allocated about $ 27 billion to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to set up a "greenhouse gas emission reduction fund". This includes the $7 billion "Solar for All" program . The program aims to help low-income and low- and middle-income families in the United States access clean energy such as solar energy, and is expected to benefit nearly 1 million households.
However, Trump signed the "Big and American Act" in July 2025, which abolished some of the original funding legal basis of the program. In August of the same year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the termination of the "Solar for All" program and related funding. Lee Zeldin, the head of America's Environmental Protection Agency, called the subsidy programme a " waste of money".
According to media reports, in October 2025, several labor organizations, non-profit organizations and solar energy companies in the United States filed lawsuits against the Trump Administration for terminating the program. At the same time, nearly 20 States in the United States have sued the Trump administration to protest its termination of the $7 billion grant program.
McElroy said the EPA still has more than $3 billion under the Big and Beautiful Act to carry out necessary expenditures related to administering grant programs.
She believes that this shows that the legislative intention of the United States Congress is to allow the United States Environmental Protection Agency to continue to implement the "solar for all" subsidy project , which has previously made funding commitments. But the EPA's actions are contrary to the intent of Congress, and there is no other legal basis to support the program's termination.
In response, the Environmental Protection Agency said it was reviewing the ruling and considering an appeal.
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