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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.
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Report: Energy Efficiency with Justice
How State Energy Efficiency Policy Can Mitigate Climate Change, Create Jobs, and Address Racial and Economic Inequality
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Want to Create Useful Jobs? Reduce Fossil Fuel Use
Energy efficiency creates more jobs than fossil fuels – and at a faster rate and lower cost.
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Brett Kavanaugh Would Be A Disaster On Climate
When a literal reading of the law makes it harder to regulate corporations, judges like Kavanaugh stick to a literal reading. When it doesn’t, they get creative.
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New Mexico’s Drought is a Climate Crisis
And while climate change affects everyone, majority-Native counties are disproportionately affected.
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As we Celebrate ‘Independence,’ Remember That the U.S. Left Its Colony Puerto Rico to Die
The disastrous impacts of Hurricane Maria were made worse by inequalities of race, income and access to U.S. political power.
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We Subsidize the Wrong Kind of Agriculture
We should be supporting the small farmers who sell at farmers markets, not the corporate giants that hurt our health and environment.
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Trump Thinks Propping Up Failing Coal Is a ‘National Security’ Emergency
Renewable resources won’t threaten America’s electric grid.
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Impeach Scott Pruitt for Dismantling the EPA, Not His First-Class Flights
The petty corruptions lawmakers grilled Pruitt for pale in comparison to his actual policy record at the EPA.
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Duterte’s New Warning to Mining Companies
OceanaGold’s mining agreement in the Philippines expires in 2019. Now’s a great time to act on the company’s reforestation scam.
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Reports
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
Report: Poor People’s Campaign Moral Budget
Everybody Has the Right to Live