The IRA is the latest step in pursuing the Biden Administration's environmental justice goals and it continues to push them forward by funding a variety of projects. The IRA would inject billions of dollars in funding into environmental justice initiatives and, according to Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass.), represent "…the most significant investment in environmental justice and climate action in American history." President Biden said that it would make a "real" investment into environmental justice and many environmental groups have rushed to support the bill calling it "an incredible breakthrough."
If passed the IRA would provide major incentives to produce clean energy and reduce pollution in low-income and disadvantaged communities.该法案提供高达3.6千兆瓦的太阳能和风能减税,足以为低收入社区数以百万计的家庭提供电源该法案还分配47.5亿美元给各州减少温室气体排放,重点是弱势社区。该法案还将向全美部落社区分配数亿元。
disadtage社区也将从30多亿美元联邦公路局获得资金获益,用于改善交通接入、重连低收入区到邻接并减少交通枢纽负面影响等项目。 IRA第60501段还将向社区非盈利组织提供30亿美元,以减少污染、解决有毒污染问题、监控局部污染水平并投资环境恢复能力项目IRA第60201条The Department of Housing and Urban Development would also receive $1 billion to improve the climate resilience and electrification projects in public housing. IRA § 30002.Multiple e-NGOs have urged passage of the IRA and highlighted the contributions it will make to environmental justice. For example, The Sierra Club's statement identifies multiple areas of environmental justice impact that will stem from passage of the IRA. Similarly, WE ACT's statement of support noted, "We acknowledge Members of Congress for returning to the negotiating table and producing an inflation reduction package that has billions of environmental justice funding that can deliver the once-in-a-generation investments needed to make communities of color and areas of low income healthier, cleaner, and economically viable."