This guide breaks down one of the Inflation Reduction Act’s most important programs that channels federal funding into states, local governments, Tribes, and territories: the Climate Pollution Reduction Grant (CPRG) program. You can scan through to get a quick overview or take a deeper dive in the linked resources.
This resource hub is for advocates, state-level policymakers, and members of the climate movement who want to better understand and champion state climate action. Click on the links below to navigate between different sections, which range from introductory explainers to deeper analyses of the program.
What Is the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants Program?
The CPRG program provides $5 billion to states, local governments, Tribes, and territories to tackle climate pollution and deliver clean energy to communities—their way. This program is intentionally flexible to empower local leadership to address their communities’ unique climate and clean energy challenges and needs.
Learn more about:
What the CPRG program is
Why it is important
The grant and funding stages for applicants and awards
Nearly every state, along with D.C. and Puerto Rico, participated in the first stage of the CPRG program by creating a plan to cut climate pollution using IRA funding. Evergreen, RMI, and Climate XChange reviewed all 47 climate plans (also referred to as PCAPs) to identify themes, assess ambition, and better understand state-level strategy.
State climate plans give us insight into how states aim to cut climate pollution in the short and long term. We compiled the key data from states’ plans and organized it into an accessible, manipulatable spreadsheet for advocates and local leaders to use.
How to use the spreadsheet:
First, make a copy to manipulate the data
The first tab shows the data methodology
The second tab lists information on the content of each PCAP
The third tab focuses on the strategies for pollution reduction within each PCAP
Content can be filtered by several fields, like state and sector.
State climate plans show us which areas states need to focus on the most in cutting climate pollution and allow states to identify how to prioritize those emissions reductions. Implementation Grants, awarded through the CPRG program, help put these plans into action. The second stage of the program unlocks $4.3 billion for state and local governments, and now it’s up to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to decide how to award these funds.
Get analysis on:
What qualities made for the strongest state plans
What EPA should consider when awarding grants to states
In July 2024, EPA awarded $4.3 billion in funding to 25 states, municipalities, and coalitions for the pollution reduction strategies they proposed in their Implementation Grant applications.
