Background
The Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) are a five-billion-dollar program, created under the Inflation Reduction Act and administered through the EPA, to help state and regional governments reduce greenhouse gases.
The 19 Naugatuck Valley municipalities are split among four different planning regions, as demonstrated in the maps below. Each region received one million dollars to create a Priority Climate Action Plan, Comprehensive Climate Action Plan, and two years of Status Reports. Learn more about your community’s progress below.
Upcoming CCAP Events:
- Climate Planning Workshop, virtual (New Haven MSA) – 4/22/25, 2pm-3:30pm – Flyer
Past CCAP Events:
- Presentation at Sustainable CT Coffee Hour (All) – 11/21/24 – Slides
- Tabling at Naugatuck Valley Community College (New Haven MSA) – 11/20/24
- Tabling at Derby Neck Library (New Haven MSA) – 11/6/24
- Tabling at Seymour Community Center (New Haven MSA) – 10/29/24
- ColleCTive Climate Action Forum (All) – 10/23/24
- Tabling at Sustainable Southbury Energy Fair & Green Expo (New Haven MSA) 9/28/24
- Tabling at Naugatuck (New Haven MSA) – 8/23/24
- Tabling at Ansonia’s Farmers Market in Veterans Park (New Haven MSA) – 8/2/24
- Tabling at Waterbury Harry Potter Day (New Haven MSA) – 7/26/24
Past PCAP Events:
- PCAP Public Comment Feedback Session (New Haven MSA) – 2/6/24 – Flyer – Recording
- Regional Climate Action Plan LIDAC Engagement (Hartford MSA) – 1/16/24 – Flyer – Zoom
- Designing a Regional Application (New Haven MSA) – 12/19/23 – Flyer – Recording
- State Priority Climate Action Plan Public Meeting (Connecticut) – 12/18/23 – Notice – DEEP Slides – COG Slides – Recording
- Low Income Disadvantaged Communities Meeting (Hartford MSA) – 12/7/23 – Zoom link here – Invite here
- Implementation Grant Workshop (New Haven MSA) – 11/30/23 – Flyer | Slides | Recording
- Climate Action Plans Webinar (All) – 11/14/23 – Flyer
- Presentation to Naugatuck Conservation Commission (New Haven MSA) – 10/26/23 – Minutes
- Tabling at Waterbury Housing Expo, Silas Bronson Library Park (New Haven MSA) – 10/19/23 – Flyer
- Stakeholder Workshop (New Haven MSA) – 8/29/23 – Flyer | Slides | Recording
As of Summer 2024, all regions are getting started with Comprehensive Climate Action Plan (CCAP) work. More information will be posted here once it becomes available.
- New Haven MSA CPRG Website (Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Cheshire, Derby, Middlebury, Naugatuck, Oxford, Prospect, Seymour, Southbury, Watertown, and Wolcott)
- Bridgeport MSA CPRG Website (Shelton)
- Hartford MSA CPRG Webpage (Bristol)
- Connecticut State CPRG Webpage (Bethlehem, Plymouth, Thomaston, Watertown, and Woodbury)
Priority Climate Action Plans (PCAPs) by Region
Note: PCAPs are complete and published as of Spring 2024.
“ImpaCT 2045” (New Haven MSA Plan)
- Includes the NVCOG municipalities of Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Cheshire, Derby, Middlebury, Naugatuck, Oxford, Prospect, Seymour, Southbury, Watertown, and Wolcott.
- Priority Climate Action Plan
- View website here.
“Southwest CT Climate Action Plan” (Bridgeport MSA Plan)
- Includes the NVCOG municipality of Shelton.
- Priority Climate Action Plan
- View website here.
Hartford Plan
- Includes the NVCOG municipality of Bristol.
- Priority Climate Action Plan
- View webpage here.
State Plan
- Includes the NVCOG municipalities of Bethlehem, Plymouth, Thomaston, Watertown, and Woodbury.
- Priority Climate Action Plan
- View webpage here.
The CPRG Program
The Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) program will provide grants to states, local governments, tribes, and territories to develop and implement plans for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful air pollution. Section 60114 of the Inflation Reduction Act provides an investment of $5 billion to support efforts by states, municipalities, air pollution control agencies, tribes, and groups thereof to develop and implement strong, local greenhouse gas reduction strategies. This two-phase grant program provides funding of $250 million for noncompetitive planning grants, and $4.6 billion for competitive implementation grants.
Phase 1: Planning grants
The CPRG program provides flexible support to states, local governments, Tribes, and territories regardless of where they are in their climate planning and implementation process. Planning grant recipients are using the funding to design climate action plans that incorporate a variety of measures to reduce GHG emissions from across their economies in six key sectors (electricity generation, industry, transportation, buildings, agriculture/natural and working lands, and waste management). All planning grantees must submit the following deliverables to EPA:
- Priority Climate Action Plan — submitted March 1, 2024 (states and Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs)) and submitted April 1, 2024 (Tribes, Tribal consortia, and territories)
- Comprehensive Climate Action Plan – due two years after planning grant award, or approximately mid-2025 (states and MSAs) and due at the close of the grant period (Tribes, Tribal consortia, and territories)
- State and MSA grantees must also submit a Status Report at the end of the 4-year grant period (approximately mid-2027).
Phase 2: Implementation grants*
EPA is committed to supporting the development of climate action plans and the expeditious implementation of investment-ready policies, programs, and projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the near term. Through the CPRG program, EPA will support developing and deploying technologies and solutions that will reduce greenhouse gases and harmful air pollution and transition America to a clean energy economy that benefits all Americans.
This text comes directly from the EPA Climate Pollution Reduction Grant webpages.
*Note: NVCOG applied for two implementation grants with a coalition of other COGs, but were not awarded either.
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Staff Contact:
Christine O’Neill
Environmental Planner II
203-489-0351
coneill@nvcogct.gov