New Jersey is committed to combating climate change through proactive strategies such as the NJ Energy Master Plan and goals to cut emissions by 50% by 2030 and 80% by 2050. This includes participating in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Climate Pollution Reduction Grant (CPRG) program under the Inflation Reduction Act. The CPRG provides $250 million in planning grants and $4.6 billion in implementation grants for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution. Visit the CPRG Archives Page to see previous outreach webinars, stakeholder sessions, and updates.

• Planning Grant: EPA awarded New Jersey $3 million to update its climate action plans. See details below, or go directly to Priority Climate Action Plan (PCAP) and Environmental Justice Engagement Plan for the Comprehensive Climate Action Plan. New Jersey has developed a workplan for how it will utilize the $3 million from the EPA to develop these plans and support implementation efforts. NJDEP is leading these efforts in collaboration with the Governor’s Office of Climate Action & the Green Economy and the Board of Public Utilities.
• Implementation Grant: The Clean Corridor Coalition, including New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, and Maryland, received a $249 million grant under the CPRG to deploy medium- and heavy-duty vehicle charging infrastructure for freight electrification along the I-95 corridor.

The PCAP is a report that includes a list of highly focused short-term, implementation-ready measures. The State has analyzed and prioritized these measures to help it achieve its goal of a 50 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. The PCAP includes twelve priority measures and dozens of enabling actions for those measures, grouped into six priority areas (see below). The PCAP builds upon the greenhouse gas mitigation and sequestration actions already underway in the state, expanding upon those priorities to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels and to a more sustainable future with reduced climate change impacts.

Priority #1

Transportation

Priority #2

Buildings

Priority #3

Electric Generation

Priority #4

Food Waste

Priority #5

Halogenated Gases

Priority #6

Natural & Working Lands

The Comprehensive Climate Action Plan (CCAP) will be an all-encompassing strategy outlining a holistic framework for how the state will reduce greenhouse gas emissions across all sectors to achieve its 2050 goal of an 80 percent reduction.  This document will serve as an update and refinement to the Global Warming Response Act Report, released in 2020.

The status report will track the progress of the implementation of climate action plans, ensuring accountability and transparency in the State’s climate mitigation endeavors.

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