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Biden-Harris Administration Announces Nearly $160 Million in Grants to Support
Clean U.S. Manufacturing of Steel and Other Construction Materials
Grants from President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act will support the
renewal of American manufacturing by helping businesses produce low-carbon
materials
WASHINGTON – Today, July 16, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
announced the selection of 38 grant recipients across the country, totaling
nearly $160 million, to support efforts to report and reduce climate pollution
from the manufacturing of construction materials and products. EPA estimates
that the construction materials used in buildings and other built
infrastructure account for more than 15% of annual global greenhouse gas
emissions.
Billions of tons of concrete, asphalt, steel, glass and other construction
materials and products are required to build, maintain and operate our
country’s buildings and infrastructure. The U.S. leads the world in the
production of clean construction materials, and these transformative awards
from President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act—the largest climate
investment in history—will reduce climate pollution by helping businesses
measure the carbon emissions associated with extracting, transporting and
manufacturing their products.
The grants will support the Biden-Harris Administration’s Federal Buy Clean
Initiative, which leverages the U.S. government’s sway as the largest
purchaser on Earth to catalyze demand for clean construction materials used in
federal buildings, highways, and infrastructure projects. The grants will be
awarded to businesses, universities and nonprofit organizations serving all 50
states and will help disclose the environmental impacts associated with
manufacturing concrete, asphalt, glass, steel, wood and other materials.
“As America continues to build more and upgrade our nation’s
infrastructure under President Biden’s leadership, cleaner construction
materials like concrete and steel are increasingly essential for the
nation’s prosperity,” said EPA Deputy Administrator Janet McCabe. “These
historic investments will expand market access for a new generation of more
climate-friendly construction materials, and further grow American jobs that
are paving the way to the clean energy economy.” 
“President Biden and Vice President Harris are leading the most ambitious
climate and clean energy agenda in U.S. history and building a sustainable
future using safer materials for the environment and for communities,” said
White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Brenda Mallory. “By
leveraging the U.S. Government’s purchasing power, President Biden is
ensuring that American manufacturing is positioned to compete and lead
globally, while catalyzing markets and accelerating innovation across the
country.”
Deputy EPA Administrator Janet McCabe announced the grant selections today at
Superior Paving, an asphalt facility in Chantilly, Virginia, alongside Richard
Willis, PhD, Vice President for Engineering, Research, & Technology at the
National Asphalt Pavement Association, and additional federal and industry
leaders.
Ranging from $250,000 to $10 million, the grants will help businesses develop
robust, high-quality environmental product declarations (EPDs), which show
environmental impacts across the life of a product and can catalyze more
sustainable purchasing decisions by allowing buyers to compare products.
Investments in data and tools will make high-quality EPDs available for 14
material categories, which include both new and salvaged or reused
materials.  These efforts will help standardize and expand the market for
construction products with lower greenhouse gas emissions. They will make it
easier for federal, state and local governments and other institutional buyers
to ensure the construction projects they fund use more climate-friendly
products and materials.
The grant selections include a diverse range of projects to help measure and
ultimately reduce greenhouse gases. For example:
A company in Georgia will receive funding to report the emissions savings
gained by switching from higher-carbon components in cement and concrete to
recycled and innovative materials.
A project in Maine will help a company that manufactures insulation made from
wood fiber track the quantity of energy and raw materials used in each of
their processes.
A project in Illinois will help a nonprofit organization that sells reused
architectural materials measure how much the salvaged materials reduce carbon
emissions.
A large insulation manufacturer based in Indiana will use grant funding to
measure and report greenhouse gas emissions for their full product portfolio.
A major university will use grant funds to research and document carbon
emissions savings from reusing structural steel.
Several projects will support workforce development to grow the number of
sustainable construction professionals available to support these important
efforts.
EPA is also announcing expanded technical assistance opportunities to
businesses, the federal government and other organizations across America. EPA
will initially offer EPD development support and direct businesses to
resources to help them measure and reduce the embodied carbon associated with
their materials, such as those provided by the ENERGY STAR Industrial program.
Federal agencies and their suppliers will be able to compare the climate
impact of various materials to drive near-term greenhouse gas emissions
reductions. Robust EPD data will be further strengthened by a new label
program under development that will identify low carbon construction materials
for the growing Buy Clean marketplace.
Together, the grants and technical assistance programs will reduce greenhouse
gas emissions and support American jobs. These programs are made possible by
the Biden Administration’s Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which creates
significant investments aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated
with the extraction, transport and manufacturing of construction materials and
products. In support of the Federal Buy Clean Initiative, the Inflation
Reduction Act also provides more than $2 billion to the General Services
Administration to use low embodied carbon materials in the construction and
renovation of federal buildings and $2 billion to the Federal Highway
Administration to incentivize or reimburse the use of low embodied carbon
construction materials in certain transportation projects.
Selections are contingent upon completion of legal and administrative
requirements and grantees are tentatively expected to receive their funding in
late summer.
Read summaries of proposed grantee projects.
Organizations selected for funding:
Aluminum Extruders Council
American Center for Life Cycle Assessment
American Wood Council
Atlas Roofing Corporation
Belter Tech, Inc.
Building Materials Re-Use Association
Collaborative Composite Solutions Corporation
Cornell University
EIFS Industry Members Association
Evanston Rebuilding Warehouse
Global Bamboo Technologies, Inc.
GO Lab, Inc.
Heidelberg Materials US, Inc.
Hemp Building Institute
Holcim U.S., Inc.
International Code Council
International Living Future Institute
Knauf Insulation, Inc.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
National Asphalt Pavement Association
National Glass Association
National Ready-Mixed Concrete Association
National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association
Oklahoma State University
Oldcastle Infrastructure, Inc.
Pioneer Millworks
Portland Cement Association
Prestressed Concrete Institute
Rochester Institute of Technology
Scrap Tire Research and Education Foundation
The Research Foundation for the State University of New York
The University of Texas at Austin
Tile Council of North America
University of Kentucky Research Foundation
University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Mississippi
University of Washington
West Virginia University Research Corporation
Learn more about EPA’s Grant Program for Reducing Embodied Greenhouse Gases
in Construction Materials and Products.
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