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  • AGs sue Trump EPA over solar energy program

    BOSTON — Attorney General Andrea Campbell has joined about two dozen other Democrats in suing the Trump administration over its decision to pull the plug on a $7 billion solar energy program for low-income households.

    The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, alleges that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency violated federal law and the Administrative Procedures Act when it terminated the Solar for All program, approved by Congress in 2023 as part of the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act.


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    Christian M. Wade covers the Massachusetts Statehouse for North of Boston Media Group’s newspapers and websites. Email him at cwade@cnhinews.com.

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  • AGs urge EPA not to scrap climate change findings

    BOSTON — Attorney General Andrea Campbell is leading a group of Democrats demanding that the Trump administration scrap a controversial proposal to repeal a key scientific finding on climate pollution.

    In comments submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Campbell and 22 other Democratic attorneys general criticized the federal agency for its “illegal” and “fundamentally flawed” plans to ax a 2009 “endangerment finding” that concluded the accumulation of greenhouse gases pose a “serious threat” to public health.


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