Domestic Engagement

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, provides the Department of Energy with $62 billion to invest in the United States’ clean energy infrastructure, workers, families, and competitiveness.

Creating a clean energy and industrial economy will reshape how we move around, power our factories, grow our food, and heat our homes. This transformation will also involve new uses of land, as well as new ways of doing things in our daily lives. The new infrastructure needed for the clean energy economy holds the potential to drive regional economic development, technological innovation, and high-wage employment for communities across the United States.

At the same time, building this new infrastructure at the scale needed will impact communities, lands, and ecosystems that people live on or near, and from which they earn their livelihoods. As a result, meaningful public involvement in how clean energy and industrial technologies and infrastructure are built is critical.

The Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management is committed to conducting and supporting meaningful domestic engagement that can help communities and stakeholders become project partners whose ideas and concerns can improve overall outcomes for project developers, while also ensuring that tangible, environmental, economic, and social benefits flow to affected communities.