On Monday, leaders from across the Peach State celebrated the launch of a new program offering hundreds of low-income Georgia homeowners the chance to lease rooftop solar systems for free and slash their power bills.
A day later, President Donald Trump’s administration appeared poised to try to kill the initiative by clawing back the funding.
On Tuesday, The New York Times reported the federal Environmental Protection Agency was preparing to notify all 60 recipients of grants under the agency’s $7 billion Solar for All initiative that their funding will be revoked. That includes the Georgia BRIGHT program, which was awarded a $156 million grant last year by President Joe Biden’s EPA to boost solar access in Georgia’s underserved communities.
In a statement, an EPA spokesperson said the agency is “working to ensure Congressional intent is fully implemented in accordance with the law” after the passage of Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” this summer. The legislation, which included tax cuts that Trump had pushed to make permanent, rolled back most federal support for clean energy.
As of late Tuesday afternoon, the move to cancel Georgia’s grant had not been finalized. And nonprofit leaders overseeing the Georgia program were still encouraging interested homeowners to register before the current application period closes Sept. 7.