EPA Faces Competing Input On How To Implement IRA Grant Programs

EPA is facing competing input on how it should structure key grant programs intended to address climate change and environmental justice (EJ) under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), with industry and labor pressing to ensure fossil fuels have a role, environmentalists opposing that approach and states urging officials to weigh the law’s impacts in context with their other responsibilities and EPA’s focus on civil rights. For example, environmentalists tell EPA in response to its requests for information (RFI) on six...