Climate Pollution Reduction Grant
RIDEM Comprehensive Climate Action Plan (CCAP) Submission to EPA - December 1, 2025
Below is a copy of the plan as submitted. Any updates/amendments related to the CCAP will be posted to this webpage.
Rhode Island's Climate Pollution Reduction Grant (CPRG) Process
RIDEM has been awarded a grant through the EPA Climate Pollution Reduction Grant (CPRG) planning process.
The first step was the development of Rhode Island’s Priority Climate Action Plan. This plan includes a focused list of near-term, high-priority, implementation ready projects to reduce GHG emissions and an analysis of GHG emissions reductions that would be achieved through implementation. Rhode Island also submitted an application for an Implementation Grant on April 1st, 2024. This $47.8M application requested funds for projects in the transportation, buildings, waste, and urban trees sectors. This application was not funded, but Rhode Island joined a successful coalition application led by the State of Connecticut on a New England heat pump program.
The presentation from the January 4, 2024 Listening Session which details the CPRG process for RI and shows the types of projects suggested by the public at a January 4th Listening Session can be found below.
The latest step for CPRG was the development of a Comprehensive Climate Action Plan (CCAP) which was created in conjunction with the state's 2025 Climate Action Strategy. Submitted to EPA on December 1, 2025, the CCAP fulfills the state’s requirements under the EPA’s CPRG Program and advances the goals established by Rhode Island’s Act on Climate. Building on the 2024 PCAP, this document provides a comprehensive roadmap for achieving economy-wide greenhouse gas reductions through 2050. It presents detailed analyses of current and projected emissions, evaluates potential reduction measures across all major sectors, and identifies implementation, funding, and workforce strategies to meet the state’s statutory targets of a 45% reduction in GHG emissions below 1990 levels by 2030, 80% by 2040, and net-zero by 2050. The CCAP was developed in tandem with RI’s Climate Action Strategy. In 2027, the state will submit an project update to the CCAP.
PCAP Priority Measures
Below is an outline of the draft Rhode Island PCAP Priority Measures from February, 2024. The final PCAP document is linked above.