EPA Finance Advisors Focus On Private Capital Benefit From ‘Green Bank’

EPA’s financial advisors are assessing how they can support implementation of the agency’s $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GHGRF), cautioning that agency officials must carefully facilitate and guide initial recipients of the funding to ensure the clean energy program attracts its promised level of private capital. We want to be “very realistic” about what is possible, said Ashley Allen Jones, a senior finance advisor for the GHGRF, during the opening day of an April 13-15 meeting of the agency’s...