Colorado Files Lawsuit Against Trump Administration Over EV Infrastructure Funding

This story by Lindsey Toomer appeared on Colorado Newsline on December 16, 2025.

Colorado co-led a lawsuit filed Tuesday against the Trump administration over its halting of two federal grant programs that support electric vehicle infrastructure in several states.

The U.S. Department of Transportation suspended two five-year programs Congress passed in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in 2022 without notice or congressional approval, according to the lawsuit. The department has refused to commit new funds from the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Program and the Electric Vehicle Charger Reliability and Accessibility Accelerator Program since the spring, according to Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser’s office.

Weiser, a Democrat who is running for governor in 2026, led the lawsuit alongside California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Washington Attorney General Nick Brown. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, asks a judge to declare the administration’s actions unlawful and reinstate the funding.

“The USDOT appears to have implemented a de facto freeze of charging and fueling infrastructure funds, in violation of Congress’s directive to fund this program,” Weiser said in a statement. “This is not necessarily a new tactic, and the courts have stopped similar efforts by this administration to freeze funds while conducting vague policy reviews.”

Funding previously committed to Colorado has not been distributed and has put certain projects at risk, according to Weiser’s office. That includes just under $9 million awarded to Colorado State University to install public hydrogen fueling stations near CSU campuses along Interstate 25.

Weiser joined a lawsuit in May challenging the administration’s move to freeze electric vehicle infrastructure funding from a different program. A judge blocked the freeze in June.

The latest lawsuit is the 47th Colorado has filed against the second Trump administration. Weiser said his legal actions against the administration have secured over $1 billion dollars for Colorado.

“I wish we lived in a world where the president was following the law, but we’re not,” Weiser said in a press conference Tuesday. “This president seems to act as if he thinks he’s above the law. He’s not. That’s why we have to file this lawsuit.”