(AGENPARL) – lun 13 gennaio 2025 Issued: Jan 13, 2025 (10:00am EST)
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New Report Celebrates EPA’s Unprecedented Successes Under Biden-Harris
Administration’s Investing in America Agenda
Agency has awarded nearly $69 billion in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and
Inflation Reduction Act funding to cut greenhouse gas emissions, create
good-paying jobs, lower energy costs, save families money, and help
communities overburdened by pollution
WASHINGTON – Today, Jan. 13, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
released its Investing in America Report (pdf), detailing the agency’s
progress in implementing clean energy, pollution prevention, and environmental
justice programs advanced by the Biden-Harris Administration’s Bipartisan
Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act—two historic pieces of
legislation reshaping the future of our nation’s clean energy economy and
the future of our planet. It has been over three years since President Biden
signed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and last August marked two years
since the President signed the Inflation Reduction Act. Since both historic
pieces of legislation were signed into law, EPA has announced nearly $83
billion and awarded nearly $69 billion to cut greenhouse gas emissions, create
good-paying jobs, lower energy costs, save families money, support clean
energy manufacturing, and help communities overburdened by pollution. These
investments and resources are already at work in communities across the
country delivering benefits to millions of Americans.
“I am incredibly proud of how efficiently and effectively EPA has mobilized
efforts to invest nearly $69 billion into communities across America,” said
EPA Acting Administrator Jane Nishida. “Because of President Biden’s
vision and leadership, these funds will be making people healthier and more
productive for many years to come. At the same time, we’re proving that
investments in public health and the environment can create good-paying jobs,
grow the nation’s economy, and advance private investment in clean
technologies so that America leads the transition to a clean energy
economy.”
All of EPA’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and Inflation Reduction Act
(IRA) programs are advancing the Biden-Harris Administration’s Justice40
Initiative, which aims to ensure 40% of the overall benefits of certain
federal investments flow to disadvantaged communities that are marginalized by
underinvestment and overburdened by pollution.
Additional information on where EPA’s Investing in America funds are going,
including location-specific project descriptions can be found on the
Agency’s newly updated interactive map. The figures below reflect progress
as of Jan. 6, 2025, as the agency continues its important work to protect
public health and the environment.
Select Highlights from EPA’s Investing in America Programs
EPA awarded $38.4 billion in funds appropriated by IRA—which represents 93%
of grant funding made available by the law—including all $27 billion in
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund awards.  Awardees are now implementing their
projects to reduce pollution and mobilize public and private capital for clean
energy projects around the country.
EPA has awarded $30.3 billion (82%) in FY 2022, 2023, and 2024 BIL funding,
including $20.4 billion in State Revolving Fund capitalization grants; $3.3
billion for Superfund cleanups; and $2.8 billion for clean school buses across
hundreds of school districts nationwide.
EPA continues to award billions in BIL State Revolving Funds to ensure
America’s water systems are safe, up-to-date, and more resilient to natural
disasters, climate change impacts like drought, or cyber-attack threats. To
date, the agency has awarded over $20 billion in funds to states, territories,
and Tribes for water infrastructure projects. Since President Biden took
office, nearly half a million lead pipes have been replaced nationwide,
benefitting 1.2 million people.
More than 8,700 clean school buses have been funded in nearly 1,300 school
districts through EPA’s $5 billion Clean School Bus program, reducing
greenhouse gas emissions and protecting children from diesel exhaust and
fumes.
EPA has awarded 96% of its entire $5 billion Climate Pollution Reduction Grant
(CPRG) Program, enabling states, Tribes and territories to implement
community-driven solutions that dramatically cut climate pollution, create
jobs in the transportation, energy, buildings, agriculture, and industrial
sectors, and position communities to be more resilient and sustainable.
EPA has awarded over $2.5 billion in IRA Clean Ports Grants to fund
zero-emission equipment, sustainable infrastructure, and climate and air
quality planning at U.S. ports, improving air quality and creating jobs while
improving port competitiveness.
EPA has awarded more than $3 billion in BIL funding to completely eliminate
the longstanding Superfund backlog by starting new Superfund cleanup
construction projects and expediting ongoing cleanup work at sites across the
country. The agency also continues to leverage BIL resources to assess 921
brownfield properties and make 182 sites ready for revitalization.
BIL provided $1.7 billion through FY 2026 to support all 12 of EPA’s
Geographic Programs for critical watershed work. This includes more than $597
million of BIL funds to support environmental restoration projects around
America’s Great Lakes, as well as $59 million of BIL funding for projects to
help protect and restore Long Island Sound and local watersheds and wetlands.
EPA has awarded nearly $2 billion in environmental justice funding for
financial grants and technical assistance to implement its historic
Environmental Justice program. The agency is delivering funds through a number
of grant programs, including Community Change Grants—the single largest
investment in environmental and climate justice in history—that opened for
application in November 2023 and will help disadvantaged communities tackle
environmental and climate justice challenges through projects that reduce
pollution, increase community climate resilience and build community
capacity.
These unprecedented resources will continue to have a lasting impact across
the country that will stand the test of time and benefit communities of all
backgrounds. For example:
In Dalton, Georgia, Dalton Utilities has historically treated much of the
wastewater effluent of the area’s carpet industry. That wastewater effluent
has led to persistent concerns about chemicals in downstream portions of the
watershed, including rivers that are no longer used for drinking water sources
because of previous issues with PFAS. Dalton Utilities will receive over $1.5
million from BIL, through the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF), to
conduct a series of pilot projects to test the effectiveness of various PFAS
removal and destruction technologies.
In Lansing, Michigan, the Lansing Board of Water and Light is investing $20
million of forgivable BIL funding to ensure its customers can access safe,
reliable drinking water. With construction already underway, this project will
include water main replacements, upgrading the ammonia system, building a new
elevated water storage tank, and extending service from a newly constructed
well.
The Kootenai Tribe of Idaho will use $1.9 million of BIL funding through the
Columbia River Basin Restoration Program to restore the Kootenai River at
Ambush Rock site for traditional, Treaty and cultural use by Tribal citizens.
Past environmental injustice from industrial, governmental, and commercial
decisions left the property at Ambush Rock littered with metal debris and
surrounded by contaminated soils. This restoration will enable Tribal citizens
to use Ambush Rock to exercise their Treaty rights and for traditional and
cultural ceremonies without fear of toxic exposure. The revitalization of
Ambush Rock will help heal the land and assist with environmental recovery,
prevent more contamination from reaching the adjacent lands and river, reduce
the human health risks associated with using this site, and mitigate past
industrial pollution.
In Joppa, a community in South Dallas, Texas, founded by formerly enslaved
people after the Civil War, Brownfields Grant funding is being used to address
contamination at the once segregated, now shuttered Melissa Pierce School to
prepare for reuse of the facility as a vibrant community center.
In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the Agricultural Research and Extension Center at
Southern University, a Historically Black University, will provide technical
assistance to manufacturers in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, including on-site
water quality assessments and workshops and offer practical solutions to
reducing hazardous substances released to local aquifers.
These and other highlights from the last three years, as well as expected
results for future investments, can be found in EPA’s Investing in America
Report (pdf).
Additional Background:
Together, the BIL and IRA provided over $100 Billion in critical resources to
EPA.
The IRA appropriation provided EPA with $41.5 billion at the end of FY 2022
for both external grants and internal federal spending.
The BIL statute stipulated that EPA would receive a BIL appropriation in each
of the five fiscal years (FY 2022 through FY 2026) as shown below:
FY 2022 – $14.1 billion
FY 2023 – $11.2 billion
FY 2024 – $11.6 billion
FY 2025 – $12.0 billion
FY 2026 – $12.0 billion
Funds awarded refers to any funding that has been obligated via grants or
other programmatic demands (staffing, oversight, etc.).
Visit EPA’s Investing in America webpage for more information.
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