Environmental Group Sues USDA in Iowa Over Renewables Funding Change
Environmental groups have taken the USDA to court in Iowa over changes to a program funding renewable energy. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of farmers, farm organizations and solar companies who say the rules shifted beneath them after they'd already signed on. At issue is the Rural Energy for America Program, known as REAP. The complaint claims recent USDA changes have made nearly every solar project ineligible for money that applicants had already been promised, and that the agency applied the new rules retroactively to projects already under construction. Chad Hughes of the Environmental Law & Policy Center, one…
