These are recommendations compiled from a range of organizations including Lawyers for Good Government and Environmental Protection Network.
Learning and Guidance Opportunities
Federal Program Information
EPA
Whitehouse, Blunt Rochester Lead EPW Democrats in Demanding EPA Reverse Unlawful Termination of Grants for Clean Air and Water
Informal updates from grantees on programs affected…
- Clean Ports
- Climate Pollution Reduction Grants – General
- Planning Draws happening; Implementation Grants being Executed
- Climate Pollution Reduction Grants – Tribes and Territories’
- Planning Draws happening; Implementation Grants being Executed
- Enhanced Community Air Quality Monitoring
- Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants
- Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem Solving Cooperative Agreement
- Environmental Justice Government-to-Government Cooperative Agreement
- Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grantmakers
- Green Bank 50
- Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Solar for All
- CEC/CPUC tribal listening session
- Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund National Clean Investment Fund
- Coalition for Green Capital
- The Native CDFI Network: received $400m from the Clean Communities Investment Accelerator via EPA – their funds had been frozen via DOJ investigation and order to Citibank – apparently unfrozen now.
- Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Clean Communities Investment Accelerator
- Community Change Grant
- Awarded Community Change grants suspended, now on EPA list; no formal notification to date
- Thriving Communities Grantmakers Program
- Thriving Communities Grantmakers for Region 9 submission portal still active
- Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Centers
- TCTACS: CCEEJ received termination of award notification – disputing
- Clean Heavy Duty Vehicles
- Grant paused then unpaused. Now awaiting SCAQMD approval, When this is done, EPA must still have the funds available. This is not guaranteed bc of EJ grant component
DOE
- HEERHA
- EECBG
- Reports of awardees successfully drawing down funds and moving ahead
- Equipment Voucher – correspondence to proceed with grant have been sent to a few jurisdiction. Responses are a little too simple/vague
- DOE Good Jobs in Clean Energy Prize
- The website disappeared right before phase 1 deadline still down
- GRIP 1
- Starting to unpause, GRIP 2 still under evaluation
- Latest from NETL about 40101(d) is that they’re continuing program management for awards in place FY22-24, but still no update on the FY25 release.
- Adoption for the latest Zero Energy Codes
- In limbo, waiting for final contract (have conditional agreement) $10M
- Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) pulled all their NOFOs offline for “review”
- Community Power Accelerator Prize Grant
OTHER
- Federal Highway Administration grants for EV infrastructure
- Were to be passed through via CalTrans
- Not clear CalTrans got into contract in time
- FEMA BRIC
- NOFO missing – still possible to apply (4/18)
- BIA Tribal Resilience
DOT
- Transportation projects, including for EV Chargers (*ID programs)
NSF: Emailed grantees that its payment portal was live again (Feb 2, 2025)
MESSAGE to the NSF PI Community,
On Friday, January 31, 2025, a Federal Court issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) directing Federal grant-making agencies, including the National Science Foundation (NSF), to “…not pause, freeze, impede, block, cancel, or terminate… awards and obligations to provide federal financial assistance to the States, and… not impede the States’ access to such awards and obligations, except on the basis of the applicable authorizing statutes, regulations, and terms.” Although the language of the TRO is directed at State institutions, the Department of Justice has determined that it applies to all NSF award recipients. You can review the TRO here.
In order to comply with the TRO, the NSF Award Cash Management Service (ACM$) system is available for awardees to request payments as of 12:00pm EST, February 2, 2025.
This message is also available on the Executive Order Implementation webpage. Please check back regularly as we add frequently asked questions (FAQs) based on community feedback.