E.P.A. Offers No New Evidence in Battle Over $20 Billion in Climate Grants

In a legal filing Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency did not provide direct evidence of waste, fraud, or abuse in a $20 billion climate grant program that the agency canceled citing “unacceptable risk.”The grant program has been mired in controversy, with its funds frozen, as the E.P.A. has attempted to claw back money that was approved by Congress for clean energy programs. Last week, a federal judge…