There remain legal and structural barriers to full IRA implementation at the local level. And though federal, state, and local climate action are often positioned as separate from one another, the IRA embodies a relatively new, federalist model. Local, state, and private sector implementation is the core of the IRA. Local governments, in particular, are eligible for about a dozen grant programs; they will take on an important new role in renewable energy financing (via changes to the tax code); they will direct resources within their communities; and they have the task of communicating to local residents and businesses and facilitating their access to IRA programs (among other things). To put it plainly, hurdles to local government IRA implementation are hurdles to IRA implementation economy-wide.