Overview
The resources listed below aim to provide a historical view of the 2022 IRA, its initiatives to help maximize environmental justice communities’ access to funding, and to ensure funding reaches those who need funding most. The analyses below show the benefits of the IRA’s programs, both actual and as intended before measures were weakened. In the wake of federal cuts to IRA programs, these resources also provide potential policy playbooks for building upon the foundations of IRA green industrial policy.
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Implementation Guides, Tools, And Resources
- The White House Official IRA Guidebook (inactive)
This guidebook, issued by the White House in January 2023, provided a detailed overview of IRA programs related to clean energy, climate change mitigation and resilience, agriculture, and conservation. It also provided specifics on funding opportunities from the IRA, including eligibility. - Overview of IRA Tax Credits and Deductions (inactive)
This Internal Revenue Service site provides a comprehensive list of the IRA’s energy-related tax credits for individuals, businesses, and others as of 2024. - Updated Inflation Reduction Act Modeling using the Energy Policy Simulator (Energy Innovation)
This report, released in August 2022 after final passage of the IRA, initially projected that IRA provisions could “cut greenhouse gas emissions 37 to 43% below 2005 levels” as opposed to the “Business as Usual” projection of a 25% cut. The report provided estimates of how IRA tax credits, grants, loans, and other programs would affect clean energy and emissions-reducing technology deployment, fossil fuel production, and overall investment and GDP growth. - Sierra Club’s Guide on Harnessing the Power of the IRA (Tambien en Español) (inactive)
On this site, the Sierra Club provides information on how the IRA saves consumers money, improves health through home energy rebates, and provides benefits for energy communities. - Clean Investment Monitor (Rhodium Group)
The Clean Investment Monitor, a joint project of Rhodium Group and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), tracks public and private investments in climate technologies in the U.S. In its Q3 2025 update, the monitor reported $75 billion invested in clean energy and transportation, an 8% increase over the previous year, largely driven by “unprecedented” EV sales during the third quarter of 2025. - Climate Program Portal
The Climate Program Portal, a project from Atlas Public Policy, holds an interactive database tracking the deployment of funds from the IRA and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, or IIJA, passed in 2021. Interested users working on the equitable distribution of federal climate investments may request access. - EPA Community, Equity, and Resilience Initiative (inactive)
EPA’s Community, Equity and Resilience Initiative, launched in November 2023, helped low-income and disadvantaged communities gain access to financing and resources to reduce pollution in their communities and combat climate change. - Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Centers (TCTAC) Program
As part of the Federal Thriving Communities Network Initiative, EPA and DOE selected 16 organizations nationwide to serve as Environmental Justice (EJ) “Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Centers” (TCTACs) to help the EJ community navigate the federal grant application process and access IRA funding. This site introduced TCTACS and explained how to submit requests for assistance. Some TCTACs are no longer active, while others are still operating at a limited capacity.
Finding IRA Opportunities For Communities
- Rewiring America’s Rebate Savings Calculator
This calculator helps homeowners and renters determine how much money they can save by electrifying their homes using federal and state incentives. All that’s needed is basic household information including zip code, income, and tax filing status. - Frontline Resources Institute
The Frontline Resources Institute (FRI) grants page highlights open opportunities to apply for IRA and other environmental justice grants. The grants page is regularly updated and tailored to frontline communities. FRI also provides workshops and other programs to build frontline communities’ financial, technical and organizational capacity. - Decarbonization and Climate Resilience Funding Clinic by Lawyers for Good Government (L4GG)
L4GG provides free direct legal guidance and services to help overburdened communities obtain funding from the IRA and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) for decarbonization and climate resilience projects. Interested parties can apply to participate in L4GG’s funding clinic. - Environmental Protection Network Technical Assistance
EPN provides pro bono technical assistance to communities, NGOs, and tribal agencies, including assisting groups with participating in grantmaking, regulatory, and other federal policy engagement.
See Analyses Of IRA Implementation
IRA Implementation Under The Biden Administration (Aug. 2022 – Jan. 2025)
- “The Inflation Reduction Act’s Benefits and Costs” (Department of the Treasury)
The Department of the Treasury’s March 2024 cost-benefit analysis of the Inflation Reduction Act found substantial local pollution reductions from IRA implementation and argued that the economic case for the IRA is stronger than realized. The report details how costs have been overstated and benefits, such as tax credits directly benefiting taxpayers, have been undervalued. - “Clean Energy Boom” (Climate Power)
This June 2024 report from communications nonprofit Climate Power analyzed public announcements from the private sector to look at the more than 300,000 new good-paying clean energy jobs created by the Inflation Reduction Act. The report shows the breadth and scale of these jobs, demonstrating the IRA’s economic and environmental benefits for communities across the country. - “Challenges in Greening the Economies: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)” (Suárez-Cuesta & Latorre)
Researchers David Suárez-Cuesta & Maria Latorre from the Complutense University of Madrid find that IRA economic stimuli increase wages and productivity while decreasing inflation, ultimately reducing the deficit. IRA tax credits stimulate private investment and drive demand and consumption, increasing gross domestic product under various taxation scenarios. However, they also find that IRA green incentives in certain sectors, such as Motor Vehicles and Electric Equipment, benefit more per dollar of investment than utilities. - Inflation Reduction Act Clean Energy Statistics (Internal Revenue Service)
The Internal Revenue Service and Department of the Treasury reported in August 2024 that Inflation Reduction Act tax credit claimed by U.S. taxpayers totaled $6.3 billion for residential clean energy investments and $2 billion for energy efficient home improvements on 2023 tax returns filed through May 2024. The website also includes statistics on Clean Vehicle Credits and Low-Income Communities Bonus Credits. - “Implementing the Inflation Reduction Act” Report (Sabin Center)
This report, released in September 2024, reviewed the status of implementation of IRA climate programs and previewed their vulnerability to unilateral executive branch action under a hostile presidential administration. - 2024 Investing in America Report: Progress under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act
This EPA report details the agency’s progress in implementing clean energy, pollution prevention, and environmental justice programs advanced by the Biden-Harris Administration’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act—two historic pieces of legislation reshaping the future of our nation’s clean energy economy and the future of our planet. It shows how much of the two packages have been obligated as of January 6, 2025. - Implementation of Federal Clean Energy Programs: Lessons Learned from DOE and Partner Agencies
This report, published in October 2025, distills insights from more than 80 former federal staff and clean energy implementers who led the rollout of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act, explaining why translating significant investments into real-world projects proved so difficult—and what can be done differently next time. Recommendations include measures to streamline agency processes to speed decision-making, as well as building on positive new decision-making structures such as those developed at the DOE loan office during the Biden administration. The report also includes recommendations for future legislation.
IRA Rollbacks Under The Trump Administration (Jan. 2025 – Present)
- Economic Impacts of U.S. Senate “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” Energy Provisions (Energy Innovation)
This Energy Innovation analysis released in July 2025 estimated that the phasing out of clean energy tax credits would lead to a 340 GW decrease in electricity generation capacity by 2035, dominated by drops in wind and solar energy. Natural gas capacity is estimated to increase by 19 GW by 2035. Wholesale electricity prices would increase by 74% by 2035, and consumer electricity rates would increase 10 to 18% by 2035. Households will face approximately $130 annual increases in energy bills by 2030. Finally, job losses in manufacturing and loss of private investment will lower GDP. - What Passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” Means for US Energy and the Economy
The Rhodium group estimated that the Congress’ FY 2025 budget reconciliation legislation will increase national average household energy bills by $78-192 in 2035 and cut the build-out of new clean power generating capacity by 53-59% from 2025 to 2035. The report projects that GHG emissions would decrease at a much slower rate than before the bill’s passage by 2035, effectively increasing emissions by between 315-574 million metric tons compared to the baseline. The bill poses the largest risks to clean electricity production and clean energy manufacturing facilities that have not broken ground. - Navigating OBBBA: Phaseouts, Prohibited Foreign Entity Rules, and Other New Rules (Tax Law Center) (July 11, 2025)
This blog filed shortly after the passage of the OBBBA provides an overview of how the legislation amends, rescinds, or upholds various components of the IRA, from phaseouts and terminations of programs to rules for sourcing materials. - “How Repealing the Inflation Reduction Act Would Harm the Economy” (Energy Innovation)
This report, published in March 2025 by climate policy think tank Energy Innovation, presents analysis showing how repealing the IRA would harm the U.S. economy. A repeal of the IRA would increase costs of fuel, electricity, and energy facilities’ operations, decrease job growth, and harm health and the climate by increasing pollution from the electricity sector. - “The Inflation Reduction Act’s Impact on Tax Compliance and Fiscal Sustainability”
Analysis by Natasha Sarin, associate professor at Yale Law School and Yale School of Management, and Mark J. Mazur, former director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, finds that IRA funding for the Internal Revenue Service (originally $80 billion, including $45.6 billion for enforcement) would have raised $560 billion in revenue over the next decade. In contrast, the report concludes that rescinding these IRA funds would cost taxpayers $260 billion. - A New Deal for the Climate? Lessons from the Inflation Reduction Act
This working paper, released in January 2025, situates the IRA within a broader history of industrial policy strategies taken by the U.S. and other high-income countries. It argues that the IRA is a combination of ecological, social, and geopolitical industrial policy that reduces emissions, mitigates the negative changes of structural change, and enhances national security. The paper notes that the IRA focuses on production rather than research and development, prioritizing public and private investment in low-income communities. However, the paper criticizes how the IRA couples renewable energy leases to fossil fuel leases, its “extremely weak superfund tax,” and the “subsidies for CCUS [carbon capture, utilization, and storage] technology”, among others. - Turning Back the Clock: Industrial, Economic, and Diplomatic Fallout from the U.S. Climate Policy Reversal
This report, released in April 2025, underscores the long-term consequences of the administration’s efforts to dismantle the Inflation Reduction Act, including “disrupt[ing] private investment flows, stalled infrastructure deployment, and raised uncertainty for firms in clean-energy supply chains.” With both a national and international lens, the piece assesses how U.S. retrenchment from climate leadership affects the country’s future opportunities in global clean-tech markets, diplomacy, and climate governance. The paper argues that subnational, private, philanthropic, and international leadership must fill climate leadership gaps over the course of the administration.
Explore Policy Blueprints Beyond The IRA
Industrial Policy Proposals that Build Off the IRA
- Now We Decide the Future of U.S. Climate Policy (Heatmap)
This article broadly discusses possible paths forward for clean energy policy beyond the IRA. - How Can (Green) Industrial Policy Serve Human and Natural Flourishing? Critiques, Concepts, and Tools (i3T)
This working paper, released in July 2025, critiques current green industrial policy strategies arguing that policies like the IRA too narrowly focus on reducing GHG emissions and increasing green manufacturing capacity. They then offer design principles and “industrial policy imperatives” to inform industrial policies that think beyond the goals of recent green industrial policies such as the Inflation Reduction Act. For example, it suggests that focusing on expanding mass transit and other high-societal-value propositions should be prioritized above increasing American-made EV ownership. - Policy Toolbox for Industrial Decarbonisation (International Energy Agency)
This policy toolbox, released in March 2025, is a compilation of policy instruments that governments can use to design and implement industrial decarbonization strategies. The report considers a variety of policy alternatives, including carbon taxes, tax credits, direct public funding, and more. It also addresses broad frameworks and more targeted actions for specific technologies. - Climate Policy Reform Options in 2025 (National Bureau of Economic Research)
This NBER working paper, released in July 2024, advocates for various policies such as a carbon fee or clean electricity standard to supplement the incentives-based approach of the IRA. The report analyzes seven policy scenarios, and finds that in the absence of the IRA, a Clean Energy Standard or Carbon Fee with carveouts could accomplish similar emissions reductions. It emphasizes that any broad-scale industrial policy must account for spillovers in the global market, such as carbon fees instituted by other countries. - Climate Tax Policy Reform Options in 2025 (Hamilton Project)
This report, released in February 2024, “assess[es] climate policies that the U.S. federal government may consider in 2025 and to evaluate emissions reductions, abatement costs, fiscal impacts, and household energy expenditures across a range of policy scenarios.” Although the report was drafted prior to the repeal of several IRA provisions, it contemplated the scenario in which the IRA was repealed. - Industrial Policy 2025: Bringing the State Back In (Again) (Roosevelt Institute)
This 2024 collection of essays released by the Roosevelt Institute provides global case studies to illustrate the “institutions and strategies [that] are missing from US industrial policy that could help it be more successful.” It advocates for various industrial policy strategies that could complement the tax-credit and grant-based policies of the IRA. - Tax Credits Are Industrial Policy (Levy Economics Institute of Bard College)
This working paper, released in December 2024, defends the IRA’s strategy to “derisk” private investment, while acknowledging its insufficiency in addressing regulatory barriers. It notes that barriers such as transmission and distribution, siting and permitting, and public capacity to take on project investments must be improved through coordination strategies and efforts to incorporate conditionalities, or “sticks”, alongside incentives, or “carrots”. It advocates for states to consider questions such as “How can you prevent rent-seeking?” and “How can you control opportunities for fossil investment?” alongside investment incentives.
Proposed Legislation to Re-Introduce IRA Provisions
- American Energy Independence and Affordability Act (H.R. 5862)
This bill, introduced by Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA) in October 2025, would restore the clean energy tax incentives created by the IRA, including production and investment tax credits for wind, solar, and other zero-emission power sources, energy efficiency improvements, clean vehicle tax credits, and clean hydrogen production credits. The bill has 114 co-sponsors. - America’s Clean Future Fund Act (S. 2712)
This bill, introduced by Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) in September 2025, would establish the Climate Change Finance Corporation, an independent executive agency to finance clean energy and climate change resilience projects. This closely mirrors the IRA’s establishment of the EPA-run Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund in Section 60103 and DOE’s loan authority in Section 50141. - IMPACT Act (H. R. 1534)
This bill, introduced by Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) in February 2025, would require the Department of Energy to create a program to support research, development, and commercial application of low-emissions cement, concrete, and asphalt. The bill has bipartisan support and passed in the House of Representatives in March 2025. It was originally introduced in the previous Congress. - Energy Resilient Communities Act (H.R. 1449)
This bill, introduced by Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA) in February 2025, would create a clean energy microgrid grant program to be implemented by the Department of Energy. This mirrors IRA Section 13702’s 48E Clean Electricity Investment Credit that zero-emission electricity generating facilities were eligible for. The OBBBA accelerated the phaseout of 48E credits for wind and solar projects and introduced prohibited foreign entity of concern (FEOC) restrictions. - Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2025 (DERA) (S. 2235)
This bill, introduced by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) in July 2025, would amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to reauthorize DERA through 2029. The OBBBA rescinded unobligated funds under IRA Section 60104, which appropriated $60 million to the EPA to authorize this program. - Carbon Removal and Efficient Storage Technologies (CREST) Act (S. 1576)
This bill, introduced by Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) in 2023, would advance carbon removal research, quantification, and commercialization, including through natural processes. This would further strengthen IRA Section 13104’s 45Q tax credit for carbon capture by extending it from industrial carbon capture equipment to biological processes. - Concrete and Asphalt Innovation Act of 2023 (S. 3439)
The bill, introduced by Sen. Christopher Coons (D-DE) in 2023, would contribute funds to research and develop technologies to reduce emissions from cement, concrete, and asphalt. This would strengthen IRA Section 50151’s financial assistance grant money for “advanced industrial technology” projects, which was rescinded by the OBBBA.