Community Air Protection Incentives

California Air Resources Board (CARB)

What does it fund?

This program provides incentive grants to reduce air pollution from mobile sources, reduce toxic air contaminant emissions, and to support local measures that air districts and communities identify through AB 617 Community Emissions Reduction Programs. The program supports replacement of high-polluting vehicles and equipment with newer models that have lower or zero emissions, infrastructure projects such as zero-emission charging stations, and a suite of project types to reduce exposure at sensitive receptors. Other projects have the co-benefits of improving quality of life, such as community greening and vegetative barriers and paving, sidewalk, bike path projects, and collaborations with local governments on truck reroute studies. Additionally, CAP Incentives provide a framework for air districts, in collaboration with their communities, to create new kinds of incentives to address other stationary sources of pollution or sources identified in their Community Emission Reduction Programs, created per the requirements of AB 617.