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• $5 billion for Climate Pollution Reduction Grants. EPA received $5 billion to provide
grants to Tribes, states, air pollution control agencies, and local governments to develop
and implement plans for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

• $4 billion to reduce harmful air pollution from the transportation sector. EPA
received $1 billion for a Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicle Program for grants to Tribes, state
and local governments, and other entities to offset the costs of replacing heavy-duty Class
6 and 7 commercial vehicles with zero-emission vehicles and deploying related
infrastructure. EPA received an additional $3 billion to provide grants to port authorities;
Tribal, state, and local government entities; and other eligible entities to reduce harmful
air pollution at ports by purchasing and installing zero-emission port equipment and
technology.

• More than $3.2 billion for the Neighborhood Access and Equity Grant Program.
This Department of Transportation grant program will support projects to improve
walkability, safety, and affordable transportation access in communities; to clean up
existing and prevent new environmental harms caused by transportation projects in
disadvantaged communities; and provide planning and capacity building support to
disadvantaged and underserved communities. This program complements the Department
of Transportation’s Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program, created and funded by the
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to restore community connectivity by removing,
retrofitting, or mitigating highways or other transportation facilities that create barriers to
community cohesion.

• $1.55 billion to cut methane pollution from oil and gas industry operations. EPA
received $1.55 billion to provide financial and technical assistance to accelerate the
reduction of methane and other greenhouse gas emissions from petroleum and natural gas
systems. Cutting methane pollution has the co-benefit of reducing emissions of smog-
forming volatile organic compounds. The Inflation Reduction Act also imposes a waste
emissions charge on facilities with methane emissions that exceed a certain threshold.
(This program is described in more detail earlier in the guidebook on page 71).

See the table on the next page for a full list of the programs summarized in this chapter.

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