About CPRG Training, Tools and Technical Assistance
The Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) program provides grants to states, metro areas, tribes, and territories to develop and implement plans for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful air pollution. EPA provides tools, technical resources and training to assist planning grant funding recipients in meeting the requirements of the planning grants.
On this page:
- Tools and Technical Resources
- Climate Action Planning and Technical Assistance Forums
- Federal Funding Resource Opportunities
- CPRG Planning Training Webinars
Tools and Technical Resources
The below webpages provide a list of available tools and resources to support Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) Planning Grantees develop the Priority Climate Action Plan (PCAP) and Comprehensive Climate Action Plan (CCAP). These requirements are laid out in the Program Guidance for States, Municipalities, and Air Pollution Control Agencies (pdf) (1.6 MB) and Federally Recognized Tribes, Tribal Consortia, and U.S. Territories (448 KB). The tools and resources are organized by workplan elements and key sectors:
- Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Projections
- Co-Pollutant Benefits Analysis
- Meaningful Engagement and Low-Income and Disadvantaged Community (LIDAC) Benefits Analysis
- Workforce Planning Analysis
- Key Sectors:
- CPRG Overview and Sector Infographics
- Infografía en español del Programa de Subvenciones para la Reducción de la Contaminación Climática
- Electric Power Sector
- Transportation Sector
- Commercial and Residential Buildings Sector
- Industrial Sector
- Agriculture/Natural and Working Lands Sector
- Waste and Materials Management Sector
EPA’s Quantified Climate Action Measures Directory presents information on the quantified greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction measures in state and local climate action plans published between January 2018 and August 2023. The directory is designed to help states, local governments, tribes, and territories develop new or updated climate action plans by identifying examples of quantified GHG reduction measures.
Climate Action Planning and Technical Assistance Forums
The Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) program provides grants to states, metro areas, tribes, and territories to develop and implement plans for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful air pollution. To provide technical assistance to planning grant funding recipients to meet the requirements of the planning grants, EPA established CPRG Technical Assistance Forums. The forums provide opportunities for training and technical assistance to grant recipients from EPA and external subject matter experts and will facilitate peer-to-peer collaboration, mentoring, and sharing of case studies, best practices, and lessons learned.
Each forum focuses on a different technical or process area associated with the required elements for the deliverables due under the planning grants – specifically, the Priority Climate Action Plans (PCAPs), due in early 2024, and Comprehensive Climate Action Plans (CCAPs), due in December 2025.
Federal Funding Resource Opportunities
The table below contains examples of currently available funding opportunities that align with Comprehensive Climate Action Plan (CCAP) sectors. This list is not exhaustive, but may help CPRG planning grantees identify potential funding sources for CCAP measures. (As of 10/18/24)
| Sector | Funding Opportunity | Funding Agency | Deadline | Eligible Applicants | Eligible Activities | Amount Available |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agriculture, Natural and Working Lands | 2025 Landscape Scale Restoration Grant Program for Tribes | USDA Forest Service | 12/16/2024 | Tribal Governments | Restoration of priority rural forest landscapes. | $50,000-$300,000 per award |
| Agriculture, Natural and Working Lands | Coastal Zone Management Projects of Special Merit Competition (FY 2025) | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | 1/17/2025 | Federally-approved coastal management programs | Protection, restoration, or enhancement of the existing coastal wetlands base; or creation of new coastal wetlands. | $50,000-$250,000 per award |
| Commercial and Residential Buildings | Tribal Home Electrification and Appliance Rebates Program | Department of Energy | 5/31/2025 | Tribal governments and Alaska Native entities | Low- and moderate-income households installing efficient electric technologies. | Up to $14,000 per household; $225 million available |
| Commercial and Residential Buildings | Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program (EECBG) | Department of Energy | 5/31/2025 | Tribal governments | Many possible activities that help in implementing strategies to reduce energy use, to reduce fossil fuel emissions, and to improve energy efficiency. | Varies by population |
| Electric Power | Community Power Accelerator Prize Round 3 | Department of Energy | 12/17/2024 | State, Local, Tribal governments, and others | Fast-tracking the distributed solar power projects of new, emerging, and expanding solar developers and co-developers to learn, participate, and grow their operations to support successful distributed solar projects. | $10 million prize available |
| Electric Power | Community Microgrid Assistance Partnership (C-MAP) | Department of Energy | 12/20/2024 |
State, local, and Tribal governments in Alaska, Hawaii, and Tribal lands in the Great Plains. See website for full details. |
Technical support and/or financial assistance to design or deploy a microgrid that aligns with community-defined priorities or to improve performance of an existing microgrid technology. C-MAP can also support capacity building for microgrid operations or maintenance through workforce development programs led or coordinated by a regional partner organization. | $200,000 - $650,0000 |
| Electric Power | Energy Improvements in Rural or Remote Areas | Department of Energy | Concept paper 2/27/2025; Application 8/28/2025 | State, Local, Tribal governments, and others for communities of less than 10,000 residents | Improve cost-effectiveness of energy generation, transmission, or distribution; develop microgrids; siting or upgrading transmission and distribution lines; provide or modernize electric generation facilities; increase energy efficiency. | $2-$50 million per award |
| Multi-sector | Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants | Environmental Protection Agency | 11/21/2024 | A partnership between two community-based non-profit organizations (CBOs); Partnerships between a CBO and one of the following: a Federally-Recognized Tribe, a local government, an institution of higher education. | Investments in environmental and climate justice activities to benefit disadvantaged communities through projects that reduce pollution, increase community climate resilience, and build community capacity to respond to environmental and climate justice challenges. | Up to $20 million per award |
| Transportation | Low Carbon Transportation Materials Program | Department of Transportation | 11/25/2024 | Local governments, political subdivisions of states, territories, metropolitan planning organizations, and others. | Reimburse the incrementally higher costs of using or provide an incentive amount to eligible recipients for the use, in projects, of construction materials and products that have substantially lower levels of embodied GHG emissions associated with all relevant stages of production, use, and disposal. | $800 million available; No minimum award |
| Transportation | Tribal Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) Grants | Environmental Protection Agency | 12/6/2024 | Tribal governments and U.S. Territories | Retrofit or replacement of existing diesel engines, vehicles, and equipment with the EPA and California Air Resources Board (CARB) certified engine configurations and verified retrofit and idle reduction technologies. | up to $800K |
| Transportation |
Clean School Bus Program | Environmental Protection Agency | 1/9/2025 | State, local, and Tribal entities responsible for school buses, and some third parties | Replacement school buses, associated charging infrastructure, and other expenses, such as workforce training. | Up to $325K per bus |
| Waste and Materials Management | Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling Grants | Environmental Protection Agency | 12/20/2024 | Political subdivisions of states and territories, and others | Establish, expand, or optimize collection and improve materials management infrastructure; fund improvements to reduce contamination in the recycled materials stream; establish, improve, expand, or optimize end-markets for the use of recycled commodities; demonstrate a measurable increase in the diversion, recycling rate, and quality of materials collected for municipal solid waste. | $500,000-$5 million per award |
| Waste and Materials Management | Consumer Recycling Education and Outreach | Environmental Protection Agency | 12/20/2024 | Coalition of states, Tribes, territories, local governments, non-profits, and public-private partnerships | One cooperative agreement that includes three projects: (1) developing and implementing a national consumer wasted food reduction campaign, (2) expanding the market for and sales of compost, and (3) increasing education and outreach to households on composting. | $35 million per award; 1 award available |
- Investing in America: Climate Action Funding Resource Guide Updated September 2024
- EPA Funding Announcements from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act
- Select Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act Funding Opportunities
- Select Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act Tax Credits
- Inflation Reduction Act Guidebook
- Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Guidebook
- Grid Modernization Initiative
- How to search Grants.gov for available funding opportunities
EPA continues to develop resources that may be useful for potential applicants, including updating datasets and considering specific trainings that would be of interest. This page will continue to be updated to include additional resources and tools as they become available.
CPRG Planning Training Webinars
Climate Action Planning
Updates
The Federal Funding Resource Opportunities table contains examples of currently available funding opportunities that align with Comprehensive Climate Action Plan (CCAP) sectors. This list is not exhaustive, but may help CPRG planning grantees identify potential funding sources for CCAP measures. (Updated November 18, 2024)