Climate Pollution Reduction Grants Program
TCEQ has received an EPA grant for statewide planning to reduce climate pollution as part of the CPRG program.
About the Program
The CPRG program is an EPA program created as part of the Inflation Reduction Act. The CPRG program consists of two phases. Texas received a grant as part of Phase I to develop plans to reduce emissions within the state. Six Texas metropolitan areas have also received Phase I grants.
Texas was not awarded a Phase II Implementation Grant. More information on selected awardees can be found on the EPA’s CPRG Implementation Grant webpage.
Comprehensive Roadmap to Reduce Emissions New
Send your input on Texas’ Comprehensive Roadmap to Reduce Emissions to cprg@tceq.texas.gov. open through 11/14/2025
Texas will submit the Comprehensive Roadmap to Reduce Emissions to EPA on December 1, 2025. This is the second deliverable under the CPRG Phase I Planning Grant. The roadmap builds on the Priority Action Plan with voluntary emissions reductions actions for all economic sectors with a focus on the three largest greenhouse gas emitting sectors in Texas: industry, electric power, and transportation. It includes the first ever greenhouse gas emissions inventory developed by Texas, a benefits analysis, a list of funding opportunities, and a workforce planning analysis.
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Open Surveys New
- Send your input on Texas’ Comprehensive Roadmap to Reduce Emissions to cprg@tceq.texas.gov. open through 11/14/2025
Past Surveys
- Survey of what you are doing to reduce emissions. closed 3/14/2025
- Survey of emission reduction ideas for the Priority Action Plan closed 1/12/2024
Upcoming Meetings
Past Meetings
December 7, 2023 Stakeholder Meeting at TCEQ Headquarters
- TCEQ CPRG Overview Presentation (English)
January 25, 2024 Stakeholder Meeting (hybrid)
Key Dates
- July 3, 2023: TCEQ workplan approved and planning grant awarded by EPA.
- September 2023: EPA will announce final details for the Implementation Grants phase.
- March 1, 2024: Priority action plan due to EPA.
- April 1, 2024: Implementation Grants applications due to EPA.
- October 2024: Expected start date for Implementation Grant award.
- December 1, 2025: Comprehensive Roadmap to Reduce Emissions due to EPA.
- July 31, 2027: Status report due to EPA.
Program Documents
Priority Action Plan
On March 1, 2024, Texas submitted its Priority Action Plan to EPA. This plan is the first deliverable under the CPRG Phase I Planning Grant. Texas’ plan focuses on incentivized, voluntary measures with co-pollutant reductions from the three largest greenhouse gas emitting sectors in Texas: industry, transportation, and electric power.
- Texas Priority Action Plan (English)
TCEQ Workplan
We submitted a plan to EPA outlining the steps we will take to fulfill the grant.
- TCEQ Planning Grant Workplan (English)
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory New
TCEQ contracted with the University of Texas at Austin to develop a greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory for Texas with a base year of 2022.
The 2022 inventory, summarized in the table below, includes emissions of the following greenhouse gases for all economic sectors: carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and fluorinated gases (F-gases) including hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), and nitrogen trifluoride (NF3). The inventory used 100-year global warming potentials (GWPs) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fourth Assessment Report to calculate carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e) from non-CO2 emissions.
| Economic Sector | CO2 (MT) |
CH4 (MT) |
N2O (MT) |
All Other GHG7 (CO2e MT) |
Total (CO2e MT) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Industry1 | 229,534,262 | 911,569 | 5,718 | 6,318,175 | 260,345,680 |
| Electric Power Generation2 | 191,101,017 | 10,832 | 1,747 | 191,892,519 | |
| Transportation3 | 179,039,963 | 10,278 | 8,241 | 181,752,666 | |
| Agriculture4 | 268,000 | 1,146,000 | 66,000 | 48,590,000 | |
| Residential and Commercial5 | 31,949,823 | 691 | 597 | 32,145,115 | |
| Municipal and Industrial Wastewater6 | 77,200 | 2,450 | 2,660,000 | ||
| Municipal and Industrial Landfills6 | 422,960 | 10,574,000 | |||
| Total Emissions (sources) | 631,893,065 | 2,579,530 | 84,754 | 6,318,175 | 727,959,980 |
| Natural and Working Lands (sinks)6 | (46,700,000) | (46,700,000) | |||
| Net Total Emissions (sources and sinks) | 585,193,065 | 2,579,530 | 84,754 | 6,318,175 | 681,259,980 |
- 1 Based primarily on reporting to the EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) and extrapolation to non-reporters.
- 2 Based on EPA GHGRP , Energy Information Administration , continuous emission monitoring reports and other data.
- 3 Based on mobile source emission modeling from the 2022v1 Emissions Modeling Platform and data on certain non-road sectors from the 2020 National Emission Inventory (NEI) .
- 4 Based on procedures used in the EPA Greenhouse Gas Inventory .
- 5 Based on fuel consumption reported to the Energy Information Administration .
- 6 From EPA State Inventory Tool .
- 7 Other gases include HFCs, PFCs, SF6, NF3, other fully fluorinated GHGs, hydrofluoroethers (HFEs), very short-lived compounds, and Other as reported to the EPA GHGRP .
Figure 1 shows that industry, electric power generation, and transportation accounted for 87% of the greenhouse gas emissions in Texas in 2022.
Quality Assurance Project Plan
The quality assurance project plan details the requirements and activities that will be implemented to ensure reliable quantification of greenhouse gas emissions and emissions reductions.
- TCEQ Quality Assurance Project Plan - revision 0 (English) EPA approved 10/17/2023