Inflation Reduction Act

The House of Representatives passed the Build Back Better (BBB) Act today, which will invest $1.75 trillion in meaningfully improving the lives and livelihoods of people all across the United States. The BBB Act includes $162.9 billion to advance environmental justice priorities supported by the Equitable and Just National Climate Platform (EJNCP) co-authors. This major package of investments supports environmental and climate justice block grants and other programs to clean up pollution and create toxic-free communities, healthy ports, and climate-resilient affordable housing and community infrastructure. The Build Back Better Act also invests in pollution-free energy and transit, trucks and buses, a Civilian Climate Corps to create clean energy and resilience jobs in communities, research and development infrastructure at Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs), funding for community engagement to equitably implement the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA), and much more.

Today, the White House announced a Build Back Better (BBB) framework that includes substantial investments in environmental justice, including environmental and climate justice block grants, investments in healthy ports, community pollution clean-up, equitable and sustainable community development, a Civilian Climate Corps, a Clean Energy and Sustainability Accelerator, investments in Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs), rebates and tax credits to cut energy costs for households, and more. In response, the Equitable and Just National Climate Platform released the following statement: