Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are demanding answers from two federal agencies regarding the Biden administration’s lagging electric vehicle charger subsidy program.

Republican Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington, Jeff Duncan of South Carolina, and H. Morgan Griffith of Virginia wrote to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on Thursday to inquire about the implementation of the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program and the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Discretionary Grant Program. Both these initiatives were designed to subsidize expansion of the nation’s EV charger network created by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, often called the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

While the White House has touted the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act programs as key tools to rapidly build the charging infrastructure needed to........

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