Specifications include, but are not limited to: • Improve understanding of current and future GHG emissions so that state and local governments can prioritize actions that reduce such emissions and harmful air pollution (criteria air pollution and toxic air pollutants) where citizens live, work, play, and go to school, particularly in nonattainment areas for the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for criteria air pollutants. • Adopt and implement ambitious policies and programs to reduce GHG emissions and accelerate decarbonization across multiple important sectors (e.g., industry, electricity generation, transportation, commercial and residential buildings, agriculture/natural and working lands, and waste and materials management). • Collaborate closely with other entities in their state, region, municipality, and/or air district to develop coordinated plans based on best practices. • Explore opportunities to leverage sources of funding and financing from the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law of 2021, American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, and Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors and Science Act of 2022. • Stimulate innovative technologies and practices to reduce GHG emissions and associated copollutants in hard-to-abate sectors.
