FRANKFORT, Ky. (Feb. 2, 2026) — Attorney General Russell Coleman and a group of 23 other attorneys general are fighting back against potential Biden-era fraud. As part of their “Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund,” Biden’s Adminstration handed out $20 billion in grants. The program became a green slush fund for nonsensical progressive pet projects with little to no oversight.
The 24-state coalition filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit supporting the move from the Trump Administration’s EPA to cancel the previous administration’s grants.
“The Biden Administration’s EPA targeted Kentucky workers and our industries, shoveling billions of taxpayer dollars to their allies in furtherance of this nonsensical green scam,” said Attorney General Coleman. “I’m proud to join AGs from across the country to stand against this waste, fraud and abuse.”
The states argue the EPA has both the right and the duty to cancel these grants after the mismanagement was discovered. The grants, according to the brief, were awarded to political allies. One EPA official awarded grant funding to his former employer. Another recipient had only $100 in assets the year before being awarded $2 billion.
Kentucky’s own Congressman James Comer (R-KY-01) chaired the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s investigation that exposed the scheme to funnel billions of taxpayer dollars to Biden Administration allies.
The states write in the brief, “When federal grant programs operate without meaningful oversight—as the House Oversight Committee found the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund did—States bear the consequences of projects that may be poorly conceived, executed, or managed. Taxpayers in amici States deserve to know that federal climate spending is subject to proper oversight and accountability, not rushed out the door as ‘gold bars off the Titanic.’”
Kentucky joined the West Virginia-led brief along with attorneys general from Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Wyoming.
Read the brief here.