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More Than 200 Tribes and Four Territories Prepare Climate Action Plans with
Support from President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act
Key milestone reached as part of $5B Climate Pollution Reduction Grants
Program
WASHINGTON?– Today, May 6, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
announced that more than 200 Tribes, plus American Samoa, the Northern Mariana
Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, have published climate action
plans with financial support 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 for
Tribal and territorial governments to develop strategies to reduce harmful
pollution and address environmental justice concerns, while building the
infrastructure, industry, and competitive economy for a clean energy future.
EPA received 81 plans in total from Tribes and Tribal consortia representing
more than 200 Tribes, along with four plans from territories.
“Climate change is an issue that affects Tribes disproportionately,” said
Kenneth Martin, Director of EPA’s American Indian Environmental Office.
“An unprecedented number of Tribes and intertribal partnerships worked with
EPA to create Priority Climate Action Plans to remediate climate pollution in
their communities. Thanks to President Biden’s Investing in America agenda,
this is the first time that climate planning on this scale has been
accomplished across Tribes. The measures proposed in these plans reflect an
incredible opportunity to fight the climate crisis and benefit this and future
generations.”
The Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program created under the Inflation
Reduction Act — the largest climate investment in U.S. 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 provided $250
million in grants to 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, 82
metropolitan statistical areas, four territories, and more than 200 Tribes
(including Tribal consortia) to develop ambitious climate action plans that
address greenhouse gas emissions across their communities and economies.
As a key deliverable of the initial $250 million planning phase of the
program, EPA provided grantees with resources to develop and submit Priority
Climate Action Plans focused on high-priority, implementation-ready activities
to reduce GHG emissions. Plans developed by Tribes and territories were due on
April 1, and plans developed by states and large metropolitan areas were due
on March 1.
Each grantee has the opportunity of aligning its PCAP with its own priorities
and interests, while also prioritizing measures that benefit low-income and
disadvantaged communities. For many Tribes and territories, PCAPs are their
first climate action plans. For others, the PCAPs build on existing climate
and energy planning work undertaken over many years.
In addition to addressing climate pollution, these grants can also support
efforts to:
Ensure Tribes and territories are included in climate discussions at all
levels of government, are part of the process to identify community-driven
solutions, and benefit from their implementation.
Improve public health through the simultaneous reduction of criteria and toxic
air pollutants.
Help businesses capitalize on new economic opportunities, spur financial
growth and create jobs by supporting new industries and developing training
programs to prepare workers.?
PCAPs submitted to EPA lay the groundwork for the second phase of the CPRG
program: $4.6 billion in competitive implementation grants, available
specifically to planning grant recipients and other eligible entities, to fund
GHG reduction measures contained within the PCAPs. In addition to the $4.3
billion general competition, Tribes and territories were eligible to apply for
a $300 million Tribe and territory competition. PCAPs also help prepare Tribes
and territories to access a broader set of funding opportunities, including
other programs under President Biden’s Investing in America agenda. The
deadline for the CPRG Implementation Grants Tribes and Territories Competition
was May 1.
Over the coming months, all planning grant recipients will develop
Comprehensive Climate Action Plans, which will include a broader suite of GHG
reduction measures from all primary emitting sectors – electric power,
transportation, commercial, and residential buildings, industry,
agriculture/natural and working lands, and waste and materials management. The
comprehensive plans will 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 these planning processes.
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, promote Tribal sovereignty, and advance environmental
justice by prioritizing public health and environmental benefits to
overburdened 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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