Weeks after Congress voted to repeal one of the biggest climate programs of the Biden-era, EPA is making new plans for how to run it.
The agency’s newest reorganization, announced last week, would move a small office of career officials who oversee the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund out of EPA’s Office of the Administrator and into its newly created Office of Finance and Administration.
The move will put whatever is left of the $27 billion climate program under the control of the Office of the Chief Grants Officer. The erstwhile Office of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund has been renamed the Oversight of Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Division, according to EPA’s proposed org chart.
The move comes as EPA looks to unwind the massive program created by the Inflation Reduction Act to expand renewable energy financing in mostly low-income communities. It was the agency’s flagship climate program under President Joe Biden.
