EPA Races To Meet IRA Climate Spending Deadlines But Faces Local Fears

EPA is racing to push billions of dollars in Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) climate funds out the door to meet congressionally mandated deadlines but is facing calls from local officials and community groups to slow down as they fear they may be unable to meet the agency’s requirements, forcing some to decline the funds. “From the ground … it is just such a huge lift for communities [and] organizations to receive this money, to go after this money and to...