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A Note from President Biden’s Senior Advisor for Clean Energy Innovation
and Implementation ........................................................................................................................ 2
Executive Summary ........................................................................................................................ 5

The Inflation Reduction Act’s Commitment to Equity, Environmental Justice, and Working
Families in Clean Energy and Climate Programs ........................................................................... 7
Advancing and Deploying American-Made Clean Energy Technologies ...................................... 9
Financing and Expediting Deployment of Clean Energy Technologies ..................................... 9
Revitalizing American Manufacturing to Build the Clean Energy Economy ........................... 26

Investing in America’s Electricity Grid .................................................................................... 34
Investing in Affordable and Reliable Clean Energy in Rural America and on Tribal Lands ... 39

Incentivizing and Supporting Deployment of Clean Vehicles .................................................. 46
Incentivizing and Supporting Development and Use of Cleaner Transportation Fuels ............ 56
Expanding America’s Leadership in Industrial Decarbonization and Carbon Management .... 67

Investing in Clean Hydrogen..................................................................................................... 74
Investing in Science and the Department of Energy’s Core Research Mission ........................ 77
Protecting Communities from Harmful Air Pollution .................................................................. 82

Cutting Air Pollution that Harms Public Health and the Climate ............................................. 82
Improving Pollution Monitoring and Tracking ......................................................................... 97
Making Homes and Buildings Cleaner and More Efficient to Save Consumers Money and Cut
Pollution ...................................................................................................................................... 105
Lowering Energy Costs for Households ................................................................................. 105

Supporting Investment in Energy-Efficient and Low-Carbon Buildings................................ 113
Investing in a Sustainable, Lower-Carbon Federal Government ................................................ 120
Harnessing Nature-Based Solutions and Climate-Smart Agriculture to Deliver Economic,
Climate, and Resilience Benefits ................................................................................................ 130

Supporting Climate-Smart Agriculture and Rural Economic Development ........................... 130
Preserving and Protecting the Nation’s Lands and Waters for Climate Mitigation and
Resilience ................................................................................................................................ 145
Increasing the Resilience of Our Communities in a Changing Climate ..................................... 166
Strengthening Communities’ Resilience to Drought, Flooding, and Other Climate Impacts . 166

Improving Climate Science and Weather Forecasting ............................................................ 177
Making Permitting of Energy Infrastructure More Efficient and Effective ............................... 182

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