Description: Grants to improve connectivity and support equitable transportation access through improvements such as highway removal/remediation/capping and complete streets. 

Amount: $3 billion

Eligible Entities:

• States
• Local governments
• Non-profits or universities working in partnership with states or local governments 

Funding Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHA)

Resources:

ACEEE (American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy) Article

National Wildlife Federation Info Page

Description: Multiyear, programmatic, competitive grants for tree planting and related activities.

Amount: $32 million annually.

Funding Source: United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Eligible Entities:

• States
• Local government
• Non-profit organizations
• Universities

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USDA Urban and Community Forestry Program

Description: Grants and loans to HUD-assisted multifamily housing properties to assist the owners in preserving their properties by supporting rehabilitation and retrofit projects that improving energy or water efficiency or mitigating the risk of casualty and disruption from severe weather events and natural disasters.

Funding Limit: Overall Cap of $750,000 or $40,000 per unit.

Funding Source: Office of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

Eligible Entities: Properties receiving assistance under

• Section 8 Project Based Rental Assistance (PBRA)
• Section 202 Housing for the Elderly Properties
• Section 811 Housing for Persons with Disabilities Properties
• Section 236 Mortgage-Assisted Properties

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HUD Green and Resilient Retrofit Program (GRRP) for Multifamily Housing Notice H 2026-01

Description: Provides funding through direct expenditure, contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, or technical assistance to support coastal resilience, coastal communities, and conservation, restoration, and protection of coastal and marine habitat and resources, including fisheries. 

Amount: $2.6 billion

Funding Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Eligible Entities: 

• Coastal states
• Local governments
• Non-profit organizations
• Institutes of higher education

Resources:

NOAA Info Page

Description: Funding for grants and other activities to install and improve air pollution monitoring equipment and expand the network of monitoring stations.

Amount: No opportunities at this time.

Funding Source: Environmental Protection Agency

Eligible Entities: States and local governments

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EPA Clean Air Initiatives through the IRA

Description: Grants to purchase and install zero-emission port equipment and technology, conduct associated planning or permitting activities for this equipment and technology, and develop climate action plans to further address air pollution at ports.

Amount: Varies

Funding Source: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Eligible Entities:

• States
• Local governments
• Port authorities
• Clean air agencies
• Private entities that conduct operations at a port

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EPA Ports Initiative

Description: Provide financial assistance to states to develop and implement a program to provide training and education to contractors involved in the installation of home energy efficiency and electrification improvements, including improvements eligible for rebates under sections HOMES and HEEHRA.

Amount: $1 million

Funding Source: Hawaiʻi State Energy Office

Eligible Entities: Contractors

Resources:

Office of State and Community Energy Programs Info Page

Description: Provides a tax credit for investment in renewable energy projects. Projects must begin construction before 1/1/25

Amount: 

• Base credit of 6%
• Credit is increased by 5 times for projects meeting prevailing wage and registered apprenticeship requirements
• Credit is increased by up to 10 percentage points for projects meeting certain domestic content requirements for steel, iron, and manufactured products
• Credit is increased by up to 10 percentage points if located in an energy community

Eligible Entities: Fuel cell, solar, geothermal, small wind, energy storage, biogas, microgrid controllers, and combined heat and power properties

Resources:

Federal Solar Tax Credit for Businesses

Section 48E: Clean Electricity Investment Tax Credit (2025 and onward)

Description: Provides a tax credit for investment in facilities that generate clean electricity and qualified energy storage technologies. This section replaces Section 48 for facilities that begin construction and are placed in service after 2024.

Credit Amount:

• 6% of qualified investment (basis); and
• 30% if PWA requirements are met.

Eligible Entities: State and local government, Tribes, religious organizations, and non-profits.

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Federal Clean Energy Investment Tax Credit

Description: Provides a tax credit for production of electricity from renewable sources for projects beginning construction before 1/1/25. 

Amount:

• Base amount: $0.03/kW, inflation adjusted
• Credit is increased by 5 times for projects meeting prevailing wage and registered apprenticeship requirements
• Credit is increased by 10% if the project meets certain domestic content requirements for steel, iron, and manufactured products.  
• Credit is increased by 10% if located in an energy community. 

Eligible Entities: Facilities generating electricity from wind, biomass, geothermal, solar, small irrigation, landfill and trash, hydropower, and marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy. 

Resources: 

EPA Renewable Electricity Production Tax Info Page

Section 45Y: Clean Electricity Production Tax Credit

Description: Provides a tax credit for the production of technology-neutral production of clean electricity.

Credit Amount: 

• $0.30 cents per kW.
• $.1.50 dollar per kW if PWA requirements are met.

Eligible Entities: Qualified facility owners.

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Federal Clean Electricity Production Credit

Description: Provides a tax credit for purchasers of qualified commercial clean vehicles 

Amount: 30% tax credit up to $7,500 for vehicles weighing less than 14,000 pounds, and up to $40,000 for vehicles weighing more than 14,000 pounds.

Eligible Entities: Businesses that acquire motor vehicles or mobile machinery for use or lease; tax-exempt entities that acquire them for use.

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IRS Commercial Clean Vehicle Credit

Description: Provides a tax credit for alternative fuel vehicle refueling and charging property in low-income and rural areas, through December 31, 2032. Alternative fuels include electricity, ethanol, natural gas, hydrogen, biodiesel, and others. 

Amount: 30% tax credit up to $100,000 per station for commercial property and up to $1,000 per station for residential property.

Eligibility: The qualified alternative fuel vehicle refueling property must be for clean burning fuels, as defined in the statute, and must be located in low-income or rural areas. 

Resources:

Federal Alternative Fuel Vehicle Refueling Property Credit

U.S. Department of Energy Page

Description: Provides a credit for carbon dioxide sequestration coupled with permitted end uses within the United States. 

Amount: Up to $85 per ton of carbon dioxide permanently stored and up to $60 per ton of carbon dioxide used for enhanced oil recovery or other industrial uses of carbon dioxide.

Eligibility: U.S. facilities within minimum volumes: 1,000 metric tons of CO2 per year for DAC facilities; 18,750 metric tons for electricity generating facilities (with carbon capture capacity of 75% of baseline CO2 production); 12,500 metric tons for other facilities.

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Federal Credit for Carbon Oxide Sequestration

Description: Tax credit for electricity produced at a qualified nuclear power facility. 

Amount:

• Base credit: 0.3 cents/kWh, inflation adjusted after 2024. Credit amount phases down depending on the amount of energy produced and the gross receipts of the nuclear power facility. 
• 5 times the base credit if prevailing wage requirement is met for workers doing alteration or repair at the facility.

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Federal Zero-Emission Nuclear Power Production Credit

Description: Provides a tax credit to produce clean hydrogen at a qualified clean hydrogen production facility.

Amount:

• Base credit: $0.60/kg multiplied by the applicable percentage. The applicable percentage ranges from 20% to 100% depending on lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions. The $0.60/kg is adjusted for inflation.
• 5 times the base credit if the facility meets prevailing wage and registered apprenticeship requirements. 

Eligibility: Producers of hydrogen in the United States

Resources:

Federal Hydrogen Production Tax Credit, Explained

Description: Provides a tax credit for technology-neutral domestic production of clean transportation fuels, including sustainable aviation fuels. 

Amount:

• Base credit: $0.20/gallon for non-aviation fuel and $0.35/gallon for aviation fuel, multiplied by the carbon dioxide “emissions factor” of the fuel. Inflation adjusted after 2024. 
• Credit is 5 times the base amount ($1/gallon for non-aviation fuel, $1.75 gallon for aviation fuel, multiplied by the emissions factor) for facilities meeting prevailing wage and registered apprenticeship requirements. Inflation adjusted after 2024. 

Eligibility: Registered producers in the United States. Fuels with less than 50 kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalent per million British thermal units (CO2e per mmBTU) qualify as clean fuels eligible for credits. 

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Federal Clean Fuel Production Credit

Description: Provides a production tax credit for domestic clean energy manufacturing of components for solar and wind energy, inverters, battery components, and critical minerals. 

Amount: Credit amount varies by technology

Eligibility: Domestic manufacturers 

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Federal Advanced Manufacturing Production Credit

Definition: Provides a tax credit for investments in advanced energy projects, as defined below

Amount: 

Eligibility: A project that

(1) re-equips, expands, or establishes an industrial or manufacturing facility for the production or recycling of a range of clean energy equipment and vehicles;

(2) re-equips an industrial or manufacturing facility with equipment designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20 percent; or

(3) re-equips, expands, or establishes an industrial facility for the processing, refining, or recycling of critical materials. 

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Federal Advanced Energy Project Credit

Description: Provides a tax deduction for energy efficiency improvements to commercial buildings, such as improvements to interior lighting; heating, cooling, ventilation, and hot water; and building envelope. Tax exempt entities can pass credits through to the designer or developer of the property.

Amount: 

Eligibility: Owners and long-term lessees of commercial buildings. Designers of energy efficient building property (architects, engineers). Tax-exempt owners of commercial properties, pending Treasury guidance on deduction allocation. 

Resources:

Federal Energy Efficient Commercial Buildings Deduction