13. Environmental Protection Agency · Notable

Direct Inflation Reduction Act air funding to states, not nonprofits

Partially done

Printed page 424 13. Environmental Protection Agency

“To the extent that the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) remains in place, ensure to the maximum extent possible that grants and funding are provided to state regulatory entities and not to nonprofits.”

What has happened

Mar 11, 2025 Partially done
The biggest Inflation Reduction Act air grant went away, but not to the states. EPA terminated $20 billion in Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund agreements with the National Clean Investment Fund and Clean Communities Investment Accelerator recipients — non-profit intermediaries — and canceled more than 400 further grants across nine programs the day before. Neither announcement redirects the money to state regulatory entities; the funds were clawed back rather than reassigned.
- Administrator Zeldin Terminates Biden-Harris $20B 'Gold Bar' Grants
  Primary Executive branch Mar 11, 2025
- EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Cancels 400+ Grants in 4th Round of Cuts with DOGE, Saving Americans More than $1.7B
  Primary Executive branch Mar 10, 2025

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund is the Inflation Reduction Act’s largest air-side grant program and its recipients were non-profit coalitions, so its termination is the clearest action on this Quote. It is also #1055’s Evidence, where the ask is that advocacy-group grants stop; here the ask is that the money go to state regulators instead.
Partial and not done: money was taken away from non-profits, but no source we accept as Evidence shows it redirected to state regulatory entities, which is the second half of the Quote.
The terminations are in litigation; the dockets are leads, not Evidence.
Executive Order 14332 and grant review (2026-09-29). Executive Order 14332 (2025-08-07) puts every agency’s funding announcements and discretionary awards under senior-appointee review and a test of the President’s priorities. Under the rule we settled on 2026-09-29, it counts only where an ask’s object is review, clearance or priority-alignment of an agency’s awards. This Quote’s object is who receives Inflation Reduction Act air money. Status unchanged.

Action: restrict
Object: Inflation Reduction Act grants and funding administered by OAR
ID: 1065