AG Ellison and AG Bonta co-led a coalition of four attorneys general in suing the Trump Administration to preserve federal grant dollars flowing into their states for clean-energy projects that will benefit citizens and their environment. Attorney General Ellison filed the lawsuit on behalf of the Minnesota Climate Innovation Finance Authority (MnCIFA), a State-created, public “green bank” whose purpose is to stimulate the development of clean energy and greenhouse gas emissions-reduction projects and help overcome existing market barriers to these projects. Attorney General Ellison joined California Attorney General Rob Bonta in leading a coalition that includes the attorneys general of Illinois and Maine in suing on behalf of their states’ public green banks. Attorney General Ellison and the coalition are also suing Citibank, which holds the funds for the federal government, to ensure those funds are released as required by law.

“I’m leading this coalition of attorneys general in opposing yet one more illegal power grab by the Trump administration because it is our job to stand up for the Constitution and the rule of law when others try to run roughshod over it. In 2022, Congress duly passed and the president duly signed the Inflation Reduction Act that makes dollars available for clean-energy and greenhouse gas-reduction projects in Minnesota and across the country. 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. We are also holding Citibank accountable for improperly complying with the government’s campaign of intimidation and freezing funds that it is required by law to release.” – AG Ellison