We Read 6,795 Pages of State Climate Plans. Here’s a First Look at What We Found.
Almost every state has stood up to take action on the latest IRA opportunity. Here are the numbers documenting their climate ambition.
On this page, learn how to maximize benefits from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), and related federal policies and incentives.
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is the greatest investment in US economic growth and climate action in our lifetimes. Together with related bills, its benefits will be far-reaching, including nationwide economic stimulus, cleaner air, improved health, new jobs, progress toward climate goals, and more. Across the board, these equity-focused incentives are designed to ensure benefits flow to the communities that need them most. And yet, these incentives’ sheer scale and complexity can slow adoption, raising the risk of missing key deadlines.
To cut through this complexity, in this section, we’ve highlighted the opportunities and how to access them.
But to maximize the benefits to the economy, health, and climate from these investments, rapid implementation is imperative. It's now up to state and local policymakers, businesses, nonprofits, utilities, and everyday consumers to seize the opportunity and implement the IRA.
In this section, we've assembled more detailed information and guidance to effectively pursue and apply IRA investments across multiple programs, recipients, and sectors.
The good news is that many states, cities, businesses, and other stakeholders are already accessing this funding and building out clean energy projects. While federal authorities continue to roll out guidance on funding, projects that were in the pipeline are already benefiting and new projects are seeing their design, development, and deployment speed up.
To document this progress, below, we are collecting case studies and examples of successful IRA implementations.
Almost every state has stood up to take action on the latest IRA opportunity. Here are the numbers documenting their climate ambition.
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Clean hydrogen has the potential to reduce pollution from some of the heaviest-emitting and hardest-to-reduce sectors and industries. These policies can make it a reality.
Unprecedented new and expanded federal programs have fundamentally shifted the landscape of what’s economically and politically feasible for state policymakers, creating a massive opportunity for states to unlock wide-ranging benefits and attract billions in federal…
San Antonio, Texas, will soon be one of the first major US cities to leverage the new “direct pay” mechanism to build one of the largest on-site solar projects for local governments.
One “vehicle” to unlock IRA funding for clean transportation projects is the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants Program, or CPRG.
States — including those leading on climate — can leverage key policies and IRA funding to lower the energy burden borne by low-income households.
Michigan’s clean energy-led economic development strategy has important lessons for every other state in the country.
The great green rush is underway, as companies, governments, and individuals race to cash in on unprecedented funding, policies, and incentives that are supercharging America’s transition to clean energy.
Understanding the goals behind the Inflation Reduction Act’s industrial tax credit rules is essential to maximizing their impact, both at the firm and the market level.
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