In a rare instance of progressive preemption, the city’s voters told private water corporations to leave them alone.
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Climate Justice
In order to avert a climate catastrophe, we must transition away from fossil fuels to a clean energy economy. On both a domestic and a global level, climate change hurts poor people and communities of color first and worst, so we seek solutions that center economic and racial justice as critical components of addressing climate change.
Latest Work
A Half-Degree Change in Temperature, a 180-Degree Change in Thinking?
Global temperatures are rising unmanageably quick, but a shift in public consciousness could lead to the climate policy changes we desperately need.
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Want to Save the Climate? Break Up the Big Banks.
Our economy — and our planet — depends on it.
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Report: OceanaGold in the Philippines
Ten Violations that Should Prompt Its Removal
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Confronting Climate Change in a Deeply Unequal World
The global reaction to two landmark new reports suggests the world could well lose that confrontation.
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Luxury Real Estate Boom Adds to Risk of Climate Disruption
Should cities build new fossil fuel pipelines to power skyscrapers for the super-rich?
Read moreReport: Financial System Change, Not Climate Change
How Banks and Investors Can Be Weaned Off Their Addiction to Fossil Fuels
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Killing for Coal (Literally)
Shocking as this sounds, the U.S. government is — by its own admission — willing to murder up to 1,600 Americans a year to enrich a few coal billionaires.
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The Inequality Crisis Hiding Behind High Utility Bills
Low-income people and communities of color are disproportionately energy insecure. Here’s how energy efficiency policy can address the divide.
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Ireland’s Taking $380 Million Out of Fossil Fuels. Where Should It Go?
The Atlantic country has a huge opportunity to model getting money out of fossil fuel companies and into the hands of the people.
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Reports
Fact Sheet: Congressional Progressive Caucus Priorities
The Congressional Progressive Caucus has released a bold agenda for 2021. This fact sheet analyzes the implications of these priorities for the American people.
Muzzling Dissent
How Corporate Influence over Politics Has Fueled Anti-Protest Laws
Change Finance, Not the Climate
How to get money out of fossil fuels — and into a Green New Deal.
Report: No Warming, No War
In the face of both COVID-19 and the climate crisis, we urgently need to shift from a culture of war to a culture of care.
Report: The Battle For Another World
The Progressive Response to the New Right