Little Rock, March 13 -- This week, Administrator Lee Zeldin announced that the EPA is illegally terminating $20 billion in Congressionally mandated funding already disbursed nationwide to lower energy costs and revitalize local economies. This includes a $31.8 million loan to support 18 solar power projects across rural Arkansas, a project that has been projected to make the state's grid more diverse and reliable, save more than $120 million in energy costs, and create hundreds of jobs.

The funding, awarded more than six months ago through the Inflation Reduction Act's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, aims to mobilize financing and private capital into clean energy projects to create jobs. The EPA is attempting to rescind their signed co...