(AGENPARL) – lun 11 marzo 2024 Issued: Mar 11, 2024 (2:23pm EDT)
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45 states, large metro areas submit climate action plans under President
Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act
Key milestone reached as part of $5B Climate Pollution Reduction Grants
Program
WASHINGTON – Today, March 11, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
announced a record 45 states, plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and
dozens of Metropolitan Statistical Areas have now developed climate action
plans through investments made possible by President Biden’s Investing in
America agenda. The planning process is supported by EPA’s Climate Pollution
Reduction Grants program, which offers a unique opportunity to help state and
local governments develop strategies to reduce harmful pollution and address
environmental justice concerns, while building the infrastructure, industry,
and competitive economy for a clean energy future. Together, over 96% of the
U.S. population is covered by these plans.
The Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program created under the Inflation
Reduction Act — the largest climate investment in history — is enabling
community-driven solutions to the climate crisis and helping accelerate
America’s clean energy transition. The program is covered under President
Biden’s Justice40 Initiative, which set the goal that 40% of the overall
benefits of certain federal climate, clean energy, and other investments flow
to disadvantaged communities that are marginalized by underinvestment and
overburdened by pollution. 
In 2023, under the first phase of the $5 billion program, EPA made a total of
$250 million in grants available to 45 states, the District of Columbia,
Puerto Rico, 80 MSAs, four territories, and over 200 Tribes and Tribal
consortia to develop ambitious climate action plans that address greenhouse
gas emissions across their communities and economies.
“The diversity of ideas and ambitious initiatives from all across the
country reflect the seriousness that states and metropolitan areas are
bringing to the work of cutting pollution, acting on climate change, and
meeting their local objectives,” said Jennifer Macedonia, Deputy Assistant
Administrator for EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation. “These climate action
plans demonstrate substantial progress for states and local governments, in
coordination with their communities, to chart their path forward — building
healthy communities and competitive local economies where climate solutions
can thrive.”
As part of the deliverables due under the initial $250 million planning phase
of the program, grantees were provided resources to develop and submit
Priority Climate Action Plans focused on high-priority, implementation-ready
actions to reduce GHG emissions that were due for states and large
metropolitan areas on March 1. Although Tribal and territory PCAPs are due
April 1, EPA has already received 19 plans from Tribes.
Each grantee can align the measures selected for the PCAP with their
jurisdiction’s unique priorities and interests while prioritizing measures
that can benefit low-income and disadvantaged communities. For many states and
metro areas, PCAPs are their first climate action plans. For others, the PCAPs
build on existing climate action plans and work undertaken over many years.
In addition to addressing climate pollution, these grants can also support
efforts to:
Help businesses capitalize on new opportunities, spur economic growth and
create jobs by supporting new industries, and developing training programs to
prepare workers. 
Ensure communities, particularly low-income and disadvantaged communities,
have a seat at the table, help define solutions, and benefit from their
implementation.
Gain substantial public health co-benefits through the simultaneous reduction
of criteria.
The submitted PCAPs lay the groundwork for the second phase of the CPRG
program: $4.6 billion in competitive implementation grants that planning grant
recipients and other eligible entities can use to fund GHG reduction measures
contained within the PCAPs. PCAPs also help prepare states and metro areas for
accessing a broader set of funding opportunities, including other programs
under the Investing in America agenda.
All planning grant recipients will also develop Comprehensive Climate Action
Plans (due in the second half of 2025 for most grantees), which will include a
broader suite of GHG reduction measures from all key emitting sectors –
electric power, transportation, commercial and residential buildings,
industry, agriculture/natural and working lands, and waste and materials
management. The comprehensive plans will also contain GHG emissions
projections and reduction targets, air quality and health benefits
information, and workforce planning assessments. EPA is committed to providing
grant recipients with technical support, tools, and other resources throughout
the planning process.
Together, the CPRG planning grants and competitive implementation funding will
support the deployment of technologies to reduce GHG emissions and other
harmful pollution across the country, facilitate the transition to a
low-carbon economy, and advance environmental justice by prioritizing benefits
to communities. 
View the Priority Climate Action Plans from CPRG planning grantees
More information on the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants
CPRG Training, Tools and Technical Assistance
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