Posts Tagged Climate & Environmental Justice
What’s Next: How We Keep Delivering on Climate for Our Communities in 2025 and Beyond
End-of-year reflections and an outline of Evergreen’s plans for 2025 from Executive Director Lena Moffitt
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Communities Tell DOE: No More LNG
Over half a million people from across the country are demanding DOE consider the climate and economic impacts of LNG terminals on the public before greenlighting projects. Behind each petition signature is a personal story. Read four of them.
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This Black, Woman-Owned Company in Detroit is Thriving Thanks in Part to Strong Climate Policy
Walker-Miller Energy Services excels in energy efficiency, workforce development, and community empowerment. Thanks to pivotal policies like the IRA and Michigan's clean energy laws, they are transforming homes and lives.
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What Is the 48C Tax Credit, and How Can Communities Benefit?
The 48C tax credit is a multi-billion dollar credit within the IRA that is already cleaning up American industry and investing in communities. A second round of $6 billion in workforce and clean energy investment is open starting in May 2024.
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3 Things Republicans Don’t Want You to Know About LNG
President Biden stood up to Big Oil with his historic LNG pause. But Republicans, funded by the oil and gas industry, are trying to pressure him to backtrack. Here’s why that can’t happen.
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Keep on Trucking: The Biggest Coordinated Investment in Freight Electrification Is Here
A new freight electrification strategy shows that we don’t need to build charging infrastructure everywhere, all at once. The plan will strategically invest billions into electrifying the most polluted hubs, cleaning up air from “diesel death zones.”
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Utilities Don't Want You to Know This Reason Why Your Power Bills Are So Expensive
Utilities are trying to keep your power bills sky-high. They are spending millions on anti-climate lobbying, and passing off the costs to you—the customer—via your monthly bill.
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What Is Air Permitting? Here’s Why Reforming It Is Key for Decarbonization.
Within the Clean Air Act sits unclear guidance documents that are preventing the law from working as intended. To bring clean air to communities and decarbonize our economy, we need to reform air permitting. Here’s how—in five steps.
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What You Need to Know About the Pause on New LNG Projects
The Biden administration took a stand against the fossil fuel industry by pausing the approval of new gas export licenses to take a deeper look at how to account for harms to the public interest. Here’s what that decision means and what must come next.
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Everything You Need to Know About Implementing the IRA’s Most Important Programs
Our work isn’t done yet. Here’s how we take key programs from the Inflation Reduction Act and put them into action.
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