gives up on barring grantees

[GoodTaste]

Macmillan dictionary shows that "give up on someone" is in use but "give up on something" is not listed there.

Does "EPA gives up on barring grantees" mean "EPA stops hoping that its policy of barring grantees from science advisory panels will properly work"?

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EPA gives up on barring grantees from science advisory panels

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will not fight a judge's February decision to throw out its ban on advisory committee service by agency grant recipients, meaning the heavily litigated 2017 policy is legally dead for now.

Source: Science By Sean Reilly, E&E NewsJun. 25, 2020 , 2:15 PM
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/epa-gives-barring-grantees-science-advisory-panels

 

[Tdol]

Not to me- it means they will not challenge the ban on them serving.

 

[emsr2d2]

Give up on (someone or something)

 

[GoodTaste]

3: to stop trying to do or achieve (something)They have given up on their plan to build a new factory.
She hasn't given up on trying to convince her husband to buy a new car.

EPA has to abandon the policy.