LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Michigan Lawyer Basic Dana Nessel has joined a multistate lawsuit to stop the Trump Administration from terminating congressionally accepted funding for electrical automobile (EV) infrastructure.
The Michigan Division of Lawyer Basic stories that below the Infrastructure Funding and Jobs Act (IIJA), Congress accepted the use and distribution of $5 billion over 5 years nationwide for the Nationwide Electrical Automobile Infrastructure System Program (NEVI).
The NEVI program was created to fund the event of EV charging stations to “improve charging reliability and accessibility for the public.”
Michigan was accepted to obtain $87 million for fiscal years 2022 by 2025.
The division stories that the Trump Administration required all federal businesses to pause the distribution of funds appropriated below the IIJA and the Inflation Discount Act, together with NEVI program funding, on January 20, 2025.
Roughly $29 million in congressionally appropriated NEVI funding for Michigan is presently unavailable to be used.
“The Trump Administration’s decision to unilaterally cut off these funds is not only unlawful – it jeopardizes Michigan’s EV infrastructure, while threatening our economic growth and environmental progress,” stated Nessel in a information launch despatched to six Information.
