New Mexico Submits Priority Climate Action Plan as First Climate Pollution Reduction Grant Deliverable

New Mexico Environment Department Submits Priority Climate Action Plan to the Environmental Protection Agency

The Priority Climate Action Plan is the first deliverable for the Climate Pollution Reduction Grant. 

The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) submitted a Priority Climate Action Plan (PCAP) to the Environmental Protection Agency on March 1, 2024. The PCAP is the first required deliverable of Phase 1 of the Climate Pollution Reduction Grant (CPRG), which was awarded to NMED in July of 2023. The PCAP is publicly available on New Mexico’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grant webpage.

The PCAP outlines priority actions the state needs to take in order to cut greenhouse gas emissions, while providing air quality, health, workforce, and economic benefits to the state's communities. The measures included in the PCAP are not an exhaustive list of climate actions that need to be taken to reach the state's climate goals, but rather a list of priority actions that fit into the CPRG context and timeline. The plan was developed collaboratively with the Climate Policy Bureau of the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department (EMNRD) and was built on extensive input collected from other state agencies, communities, workforce entities, and Tribes. A list of outreach and engagement sessions conducted throughout the process can be found on New Mexico’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grant webpage. A report of the community engagement conducted throughout the process, in collaboration with the Center for Civic Policy, is outlined in Appendix M of the PCAP. 

The measures included in the PCAP are eligible for implementation funding through phase 2 of the CPRG, which is a competitive grant application due April 1. Both NMED and EMNRD intend to submit multiple applications to fund the implementation of their respective priority climate actions. The next step in the planning phase of the CPRG is to build on the work done for the PCAP to create a Comprehensive Climate Action Plan. As a whole, NM’s participation in the CPRG program is helping to lead the state to a cleaner and more equitable future, and the Climate Change Bureau is excited and proud to have finished the first step in that process.  

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