• videocam Live Webinar with Live Q&A
  • calendar_month July 23, 2026 @ 1:00 PM ET/10:00 AM PT
  • signal_cellular_alt Intermediate
  • card_travel Environmental
  • schedule 90 minutes

Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Litigation: Federal Funding Freezes, Grant Terminations, Impoundment, Remedies

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About the Course

Introduction

This CLE webinar will examine the ongoing Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) litigation, and the broader implications of federal climate funding freezes and grant terminations. Our authoritative panel will explain the GGRF's structure, the current disputes involving the EPA, Citibank, and grant recipients, and the legal theories brought to challenge the suspension or termination of congressionally authorized climate funding.

Description

Although rooted in federal climate funding, the GGRF litigation presents issues beyond environmental law, including agency authority, federal grant rights, appropriations limits, and available remedies.

The panel will discuss the litigation's grounding within administrative law, appropriations and impoundment issues, the associated constitutional arguments, the impact of federal grant rules, as well as the challenges related to jurisdiction, sovereign immunity, and the practical limits to any remedies.

The panel will navigate the resulting concerns for grantees, subrecipients, lenders, and others who may rely on federal climate funding.

Listen as our panel discusses the GGRF litigation, the public law and funding doctrines behind the cases, and possibilities for preserving rights and counseling affected clients.

Credit Information

  • This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.


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    On Demand

Date + Time

  • event

    Thursday, July 23, 2026

  • schedule

    1:00 PM ET/10:00 AM PT

I. GGRF structure and litigation

A. GGRF program framework and the role of EPA, grantees, subrecipients, and financial parties

B. Funding freezes, grant terminations, and current litigation

II. Legal theories driving the GGRF disputes

A. Administrative law, statutory authority, and federal grant law claims

B. Appropriations, impoundment, constitutional, and separation of powers issues

III. Forum, remedies, and litigation strategy

A. Jurisdiction, sovereign immunity, reviewability, and Court of Federal Claims issues

B. Preliminary relief, appeals, available remedies, and practical limits

IV. Transactional and project-level fallout

A. Impact on grantees, subrecipients, lenders, borrowers, project sponsors, and other parties

B. Risk allocation, defaults, termination rights, and mitigation

V. Broader climate rollback context and practical takeaways

A. Relationship to EPA, SEC, and other federal climate policy retreat

B. Preserving claims and records; client options amid continuing uncertainty

The panel will address these and other key issues:

  • GGRF structure and the current litigation impact on climate finance, community lending, and clean energy projects
  • Litigation claims arising from frozen or terminated GGRF awards
  • Administrative law, appropriations, impoundment, constitutional, and federal grant law issues raised by the disputes
  • What jurisdictional and remedies issues to consider
  • Impact from uncertainty on the grantees, subrecipients, lenders, investors, others