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Biden-Harris Administration Announces Availability of $4.6 Billion in
Competitive Grants to Cut Climate Pollution as Part of Investing in America
Agenda
Announcement comes during Climate Week 202
WASHINGTON (Sept. 20, 2023) – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) launched $4.6 billion in competitive grants to fund state, local,
and Tribal programs and policies that cut climate pollution, advance
environmental justice, and deploy clean energy solutions across the country.
As part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, a key pillar of
Bidenomics, EPA’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) competitions
will enable community-driven solutions to the climate crisis, helping to
accelerate America’s clean energy transition. The announcement comes during
Climate Week 2023 in New York City – an annual gathering of civil society
leaders, business leaders, students, and advocates who are committed to taking
bold climate action.
The two new competitions are part of the second tranche of funding from
EPA’s $5 billion Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program, which was
created by President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act – the largest climate
investment in history. EPA has already made $250 million available to fund the
development of climate action plans, and nearly all states, plus major cities
opted in to receive these flexible planning resources. The $4.6 billion
implementation grant competitions launched today will fund initiatives
developed under the first phase of the program. 
“Tackling the global climate crisis requires partnerships and action across
the country,” said EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan. “President Biden
secured this historic funding because he knows that communities need resources
to fund projects to cut climate pollution, lift up disadvantaged communities,
and reap the economic and job-creation benefits of climate action. By
investing in America, we’re investing in communities so they can chart their
own paths toward the clean energy future.” 
“EPA’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program recognizes that to
tackle the climate crisis and advance environmental justice, communities need
to be in the driver’s seat steering toward their own clean energy future,”
said John Podesta, Senior Advisor to the President for Clean Energy Innovation
and Implementation. “It’s why these state, local, and Tribal grants are
such an important part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda.”
State and local action is vital to deliver on President Biden’s commitment
to reduce climate pollution by 50-52% by 2030. The CPRG program will enable
states and local and tribal governments to take aggressive action to combat
climate change by funding measures that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions,
especially measures that would bring economic and health benefits to
low-income and disadvantaged communities. This program will reduce emissions
of greenhouse gases and other harmful air pollution for the health and
wellbeing of everyone, including those most vulnerable to the flooding, heat
waves, wildfires, and other destabilizing impacts of climate change on
communities.
The CPRG program will also advance President Biden’s Justice40 Initiative,
which aims to ensure 40% of the overall benefits of certain climate, clean
energy, and other Federal investments flow to disadvantaged communities that
have been marginalized by underinvestment and overburdened by pollution.
Justice40 is part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s historic commitment
to environmental justice.
The Climate Pollution Reduction Grants Competitions
EPA is announcing the availability of $4.6 billion across two implementation
grant competitions, one general competition and one specifically for Tribes
and territories. Under these competitions, eligible applicants will compete
for CPRG implementation grants to fund measures in their state-,
municipality-, Tribe-, or territory-specific climate action plans. As part of
its evaluation of applications, EPA will prioritize measures that achieve the
greatest amount of GHG emissions reductions.
In the grant competitions announced today, EPA describes how the agency
intends to score applications and award the competitive funds to
implementation grant recipients. EPA anticipates awarding approximately 30 to
115 grants ranging between $2 million and $500 million under the general
competition. EPA also anticipates awarding approximately 25 to 100 grants
ranging between $1 million and $25 million under the Tribes and territories
competition.
The deadline to apply to the general competition is April 1, 2024. The
deadline to apply to the Tribes and territories competition is May 1, 2024.
EPA estimates that the implementation grants will be awarded in Fall 2024 for
the general competition and in Winter 2024-2025 for the Tribes and territories
competition. 
EPA has published the two official Notice of Funding Opportunities or NOFOs
for these grants competitions on grants.gov. 
General Competition NOFO 
Tribes and Territories Competition NOFO 
Webinars
EPA will hold two informational webinars about the general competition on
September 21, 2023 at 2:30 pm and October 3, 2023 at 3:00 pm (same content for
both), and two informational webinars about the Tribes and territories
competition on September 27, 2023 at 2:00 pm and October 5, 2023 at 1:00 pm
(same content for both). All times are Eastern Time. These 1-hour webinars
will provide more detailed information on the implementation grants
competitions. Recordings of the webinars will be posted to the Climate
Pollution Reduction Grants webpage. 
Register for the September 21st webinar here.
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