{"id":17665,"date":"2025-02-08T09:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T08:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/08\/trump-administration-suspends-5bn-electric-vehicle-charging-program\/"},"modified":"2025-02-08T09:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T08:37:18","slug":"trump-administration-suspends-5bn-electric-vehicle-charging-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/08\/trump-administration-suspends-5bn-electric-vehicle-charging-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration suspends $5bn electric vehicle charging program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Highway agency ordered states to no longer spend funds allocated under Biden\u2019s EV charging station program<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\"> Trump administration<\/a> has ordered US states to suspend a $5bn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/electric-cars\">electric vehicle<\/a> charging station program in a further blow to the environmental movement since the president\u2019s return to the White House.<\/p>\n<p>In a memo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fhwa.dot.gov\/environment\/nevi\/resources\/state-plan-approval-suspension.pdf\">issued<\/a> on Thursday to state transportation directors, the transportation department\u2019s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) ordered states not to spend any funds allocated to them under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/biden-administration\">Biden administration<\/a> as part of the national electric vehicle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/infrastructure\">infrastructure<\/a> (NEVI) program.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/07\/trump-electric-vehicle-charging-station-program\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3e51dd4c7d1ec12f34a9b296b9f9d7039df91294\/0_249_4000_2400\/master\/4000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=68bc1fd640f284e96130c08030f9561d\" title=\"Trump administration suspends $5bn electric vehicle charging program\" \/>Highway agency ordered states to no longer spend funds allocated under Biden\u2019s EV charging station program<br \/>\nThe Trump administration has ordered US states to suspend a $5bn electric vehicle charging station program in a further blow to the environmental movement since the president\u2019s return to the White House.<br \/>\nIn a memo issued on Thursday to state transportation directors, the transportation department\u2019s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) ordered states not to spend any funds allocated to them under the Biden administration as part of the national electric vehicle infrastructure (NEVI) program. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highway agency ordered states to no longer spend funds allocated under Biden\u2019s EV charging station program The Trump administration has ordered US states to suspend a $5bn electric vehicle charging station program in a further blow to the environmental movement since the president\u2019s return to the White House. In a memo issued on Thursday to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/08\/trump-administration-suspends-5bn-electric-vehicle-charging-program\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump administration suspends $5bn electric vehicle charging program<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17665"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}