State Priority Climate Action Plans Assessment Spreadsheet

Photo illustration by Amanda Pontillo, Climate XChange. US map by Rumi/Adobe Stock and infographic by the8monkey/Adobe Stock.

Contributors

RMI

Drew Veysey, Molly Freed, Wendy Jaglom-Kurtz, Jake Glassman, Adefunke Sonaike, Kayleigh Rubin, and Nathan Iyer

Evergreen Collaborative

Rachel Patterson, Trevor Dolan, Mattea Mrkusic, Charles Harper, Courtney Bourgoin, Joe Fitzgibbon, and Daniela Schulman

Climate XChange

Greg Casto, Destiny Gonzalez, Jonah Kurman-Faber, Kristen Soares, and Ruby Wincele

Climate XChange, Evergreen Collaborative, and RMI reviewed 47 climate plans from 45 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia that were submitted to the U.S. EPA as part of the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) program. This program, a major component of the Inflation Reduction Act, provides $5 billion in grants to states, local governments, Tribes, and territories to develop and implement plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollution.

CPRG grantees were required to submit a Priority Climate Action Plan (PCAP) this spring, detailing the strategies each state is exploring to address climate change across their economies. In total, we analyzed more than 650 PCAP measures from states and territories, which collectively account for about 90 percent of the country’s population and climate pollution. To make the data and information in the plans more accessible, this spreadsheet pulls out and organizes key information from the plans.

View the Spreadsheet

Content can be filtered by several fields, including state and sector, making it easier to digest and understand the vast quantity of information included in state plans. We hope the climate community can utilize this spreadsheet to identify trends and gaps in state planning efforts to inform future climate action.

For more information on the methodology used in our PCAP review, see the About tab on the spreadsheet.

Please contact rwincele@climate-xchange.org if you have questions or notice anything that merits an update.Â