The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund will make funding available on a competitive basis for financial and technical assistance for projects that reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions and other forms of air pollution, with a particular emphasis on projects in low-income and disadvantaged communities. The overarching objectives of the GGRF are to (1) reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and other air pollutants; (2) deliver benefits to low-income and disadvantaged communities; and (3) mobilize financing and private capital to stimulate additional deployment of greenhouse gas and air pollution reducing projects.

Under the General Assistance and Low-Income and Disadvantaged Communities Program, EPA will make available $19.97 billion in competitive grants to eligible recipients (as defined in Section 134(c)(1) of the Clean Air Act). A minimum of $8 billion of the funding made available in this program will be for the purposes of providing financial and technical assistance in low-income and disadvantaged communities as required by Section 134(a)(3) of the Clean Air Act and in alignment with the Biden-Harris Administration’s Justice40 Initiative. Additionally, this program will support the creation of high-paying jobs. EPA expects to award between 2 and 15 grants through this program.

EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) team hosted two public listening sessions about the $7 billion Zero-Emissions Technologies grant competition in March 2023.