TREES Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative Matsui, Doris O. [D-CA-7]
Introduced
Summary
Would create a Department of Energy grant program to plant trees that reduce residential energy use. The TREES Act would fund local tree-planting projects designed to add shade and wind protection so homes use less energy for heating and cooling.
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- Families and households: Targets projects that lower home energy bills and gives priority to areas with high energy burden and neighborhoods with many seniors or children.
- Local governments, Tribal nations, nonprofits, and retail power providers: Makes them eligible for grants that can cover up to 90% of project costs and supports planning, planting, and up to 3 years of maintenance and monitoring.
- Workers and local economies: Requires projects to prioritize hiring local residents, especially people who are unemployed or underemployed.
- Program scale and priorities: Authorizes $50 million per year for fiscal years 2026–2030 and aims, if funded, to facilitate planting at least 300,000 trees each year, with priority for low-canopy neighborhoods and measurable energy savings.
*Would authorize $50 million per year for fiscal years 2026–2030 and could increase federal spending if appropriated.*
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Tree grants to cut home energy use
If enacted, the Energy Department would set up a Tree Planting Grant Program within 90 days. Grants would cover up to 90% of project costs for states, local governments, Tribes, 501(c)(3) nonprofits, and retail power providers. The bill authorizes $50 million each year for FY2026–2030 and, if funded, aims to plant at least 300,000 trees a year. Money could pay for planning, nurseries, buying and planting trees, training, and up to 3 years of care. Applicants must estimate energy savings, list costs and other funding, engage the community, and choose species suited to local conditions. Projects in high energy-burden, lower-income or low-canopy neighborhoods, or areas with many seniors or kids, and those hiring local unemployed or underemployed residents, would get priority. Households could see lower cooling and heating bills from added shade and wind protection.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Matsui, Doris O. [D-CA-7]
CA • D
Cosponsors
Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-1]
PA • R
Sponsored 4/24/2025
Rep. Cleaver, Emanuel [D-MO-5]
MO • D
Sponsored 4/24/2025
Rep. Davids, Sharice [D-KS-3]
KS • D
Sponsored 4/29/2025
McBride
DE • D
Sponsored 7/22/2025
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