States are falling behind in using IRA funding to advance climate action
grist.org
When President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, into law two years ago, a starting gun sounded. “The race is on,” said Jacob Corvidae, a senior principal with the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), a clean energy think tank, for states to attract and encourage the private actions that will position their economies […]
  • Baggins@piefed.socialEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    Coming from UK, reading these headline and can’t help thinking that another IRA have raised their heads again.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
      3·
      3 months ago

      Acronyms are a real issue; the great one is “BLM” which depending on context, means “Bureau of Land Management,” “Black Lives Matter,” or ironically “Bureau of Logging & Mining”

  • Zipitydew
    5·
    3 months ago

    Might be able to add context here. Company I work for started looking after few different project ideas when it passed. What we found was the version that passed left how the program would work undecided. Essentially requiring the EPA and other agencies to digest the text and establish process and procedures to apply and qualify.

    A project I’ve been working on nearly 2 years only finally got some good news back in March. It took federal agencies that long to decide who/what/when/where/how you’re able to tap into these funds. Thankfully my team and I made the case it was a project worth doing regardless of if the government ever gives us the tax breaks. Which we might get enough back on doing to immediately replicate the project at more locations.