Advocacy Group Floats Priorities For EPA’s State GHG-Reduction Grants

An environmental group is pressing EPA to only pick the “best” proposals from states to curb greenhouse gas emissions to receive competitive grants from a $5 billion program funded by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), arguing officials should pick plans that attack major sources of pollution and catalyze broader efforts. Available funding in the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) program is “heavily oversubscribed,” Evergreen Action writes in a June 12 post . As such, EPA “will need to be especially...