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The Environmental Protection Agency will award $4.3 billion in grants to projects targeting greenhouse gas emissions (Law360, subscription).

What’s going on: On Monday, EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan announced the 25 recipients from among a pool of “almost 300 applications requesting a total of $33 billion for the climate pollution reduction grant program, which was authorized by the Inflation Reduction Act.”

• The funding is scheduled to be delivered this fall.

Why it’s important: The projects will “collectively reduc[e] greenhouse gas pollution by an estimated 148 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2030, and an estimated 971 million metric tons by 2050, the EPA said.”

What’s in it: Funding for chosen applications will go toward climate undertakings in 30 states. The largest tranche—almost $500 million—is going to California to decarbonize transportation and freight shipping at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports, through incentives for electric vehicle charging equipment and emissions-free freight vehicles. Other disbursements include: 

• Some $396 million to Pennsylvania to reduce industrial greenhouse gas emissions from cement and asphalt operations;
• Approximately $421 million to the Atlantic Conservation Coalition “to use working lands and natural areas in North Carolina, Maryland, South Carolina and Virginia for carbon sequestration”;
• About $248 million to deploy charging sites for zero-emission, medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles on Interstate 95 in Maryland, Connecticut, Delaware and New Jersey; and
• Some $199 million for a food-system decarbonization program in Minnesota.