Virginia has put itself in contention for part of nearly $5 billion in federal money to be allocated by the EPA to reduce climate emissions.
program provides $5 billion in grants to states, local governments, tribes, and territories to develop and implement ambitious plans for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful air pollution. Authorized under Section 60114 of the Inflation Reduction Act, this two-phase program provides $250 million for noncompetitive planning grants, and approximately $4.6 billion for competitive implementation grants.
The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality solicited public feedback about the action plan, which signals Virginia’s intent to electrify transportation, building and industrial sectors, for six months prior to its submission to the EPA.described the state’s priorities as accelerating Virginia’s clean energy transition.
This was “definitely the direction we hoped they would go,” Gee said. “Diverting emissions from the atmosphere now has a bigger impact than doing so five years from now.” Gee, who specializes in transportation policy, said he hopes electric bike rebate programs, expansion plans for bus networks, and projects that would improve access to install more electric vehicle chargers in rural areas will be in Virginia’s final CPRG application.
PlanRVA is seeking to create electric vehicle incentives, expand and create better access to local routes, and urge lawmakers to adopt land use policies that would “encourage development near high capacity transit stations and within activity centers,” she said. Compared with other regions in Virginia, Richmond and its surrounding communities lack well connected bike lanes, she added.
In written statements submitted during the DEQ review, the fossil fuel companies complained that powering the state’s industrial sector with renewable energy and incentivising commercial and residential buildings to electrify was impractical and contrary to an “all of the above” energy approach.
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