Alliance members are working to achieve the Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping temperature increases below 1.5 degrees Celsius by reducing emissions, accelerating action, centering equity, and tracking progress. 

Explore Delaware's policies and actions across the Alliance's 10 key policy areas. Numbers presented below only reflect the number of policies in this database and thus may not reflect all climate policies pursued.

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GHG Targets + Governance

Just Transition + Equity

Industry

Pricing Carbon + Valuing Damages

Electricity

Transportation

Resilience

Natural + Working Lands

Climate Finance

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Charging Forward: Delaware’s Strategy for Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure

Delaware is committed to reducing transportation emissions through the transition to electric
vehicles (EVs) powered by clean, renewable electricity. CHARGING FORWARD: Delaware's
Strategy for Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure (2024) (or the Strategy), initiated by the
Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) and the Department of Natural Resources
and Environmental Control (DNREC), is intended to facilitate current and future users of EVs to
confidently travel in and across Delaware for work, education, recreation, and exploration. This
Strategy focuses on planning an EV charging network in an equitable, reliable, connected
manner with educational initiatives and evaluation mechanisms to improve and enhance the
network as needed.

Chapter 203: Establishing a Community Environmental Project Fund

Establishes the Community Environmental Project Fund  which "provides money to support the restoration of the environment in communities that were damaged by environmental pollution.”

The legislation authorizes the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) to establish a grant fund by withholding 25% of funds collected as penalties for violations of environmental regulations.These funds are returned to the communities where the violations occurred as competitive grants to nonprofit organizations in equity focus areas to support community environmental projects.

The CEPF uses a searchable mapping tool to ensure that funding supports the state’s environmental justice goals. Delaware has identified Equity Focus Areas to direct investment to address existing inequities. These areas are shown on the map, along with locations of past CEPF investments and of facilities that have had penalty assessments.

Community Environmental Project Fund  “provides money to support the restoration of the environment in communities that were damaged by environmental pollution.” The fund was created by the Delaware General Assembly in 2004 (74 Del. Laws, c. 203). The legislation authorizes the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) to establish a grant fund by withholding 25% of funds collected as penalties for violations of environmental regulations.

These funds are returned to the communities where the violations occurred as competitive grants to nonprofit organizations in equity focus areas to support community environmental projects.
The awards are determined by DNREC with input from Community Involvement Advisory Council. The projects must either mitigate pollution, enhance the environment, or create recreational opportunities.

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EO 18: Open Data Council

Expands the Delaware Open Data Council to include members from all executive branch agencies to promote data sharing.

The Delaware Environmental Navigator provides access to a variety of information collected by DNREC, including permitted facilities, enforcement actions and environmental monitoring.

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DPH to Launch My Healthy Community Data Portal

The Delaware Department of Health and Social Services' Division of Public Health announced the launch of the My Healthy Community Data Portal, an innovative software platform that delivers neighborhood-focused population health, environmental, and social determinant of health data to the public. This includes an Environment Dashboard tracking environmental determinants of health.