President-elect Donald Trump’s return to power gives him a chance to fulfill his vow to gut the unspent funding in Democrats’ climate law.
The big mystery is how much money remains on the table.
Federal agencies and departments have announced tentative awards for roughly two-thirds of the $145.4 billion appropriated to climate efforts by the Inflation Reduction Act, according to information tracked by the White House. But the Biden administration has provided no accounting of how much of that money it has formally committed, or obligated — a number that could be crucial for the coming GOP debate over how much of the law to repeal.
EPA previously told POLITICO’s E&E News that it has obligated $33.5 billion, or 80 percent of its $42.1 billion in IRA appropriations, as of Oct. 22. The Interior Department’s Bureau of Reclamation obligated $1.1 billion from its $4.6 billion share of the climate law money, according to data that it posts online.
