Sec. 90004. Environmental Protection Agency climate change research and development
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In addition to amounts otherwise made available, there is appropriated to the Environmental Protection Agency for fiscal year 2022, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $264,000,000 to remain available until September 30, 2026, to conduct environmental research and development activities related to climate change, including related administrative expenses. The amounts made available in this section shall be used for the purposes of— conducting further research on mitigation of climate forcing emissions, adaptation to reduce the impacts of climate change, and approaches to build resilience to climate change; providing increased support for evidence-based regional and community climate adaptation and resilience actions, including development of a grants-based regional climate science network; conducting further social science research to upgrade the utilization and efficacy of scientific tools to mitigate, adapt, and build resilience to the impacts of climate change; increasing engagement capacity with frontline communities with environmental justice concerns in translating, utilizing, and evaluating scientific research results; conducting further research to improve understanding of impacts of decarbonized energy sources compared to existing energy sources, including cumulative impacts of pollution from existing sources; conducting further research to improve understanding of the impacts of the transition to decarbonized energy, transportation, and building sectors on frontline communities; conducting further research to improve understanding of impacts of climate change, including cumulative impacts of pollution exposure, in communities that face disproportionate impacts from energy transitions; and providing increased support to conduct further environmental research and development activities on climate change that the Administrator deems appropriate.