Biden’s new climate commitment is the most ambitious in U.S. history, but still short of what science requires and movements demand.
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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
Transit Equity Report Finds Riders and Workers Continue to Need Better Access to Affordable & Reliable Public Transit to Meet Essential Needs and for Economy Recovery and Climate Action
The Transit Equity Network released a new report, “Community Hearing on Transit Equity 2021: Findings and Recommendations.”
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Community Hearing on Transit Equity 2021: Findings and Recommendations
Findings from the Transit Equity 2021 report highlight organizing successes, existing inequities, and policy solutions for U.S. public transit.
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The Fossil Fuel Industry Is Lining up Behind Far-Right Authoritarians
As climate change intensifies and countries turn to clean energies, Big Oil will take increasingly desperate measures to survive.
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BOOK: The Water Defenders
How ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed.
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Water Defenders Versus Big Gold
Water defenders in El Salvador are offering hopeful development priorities, policies, and trajectories for the future. They aren’t alone.
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We All Need Transit — Whether We Ride It or Not
Without public transit, I couldn’t have gotten my degree. And all of us need it to keep our planet livable.
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Water Is Life. Can We Protect It?
Americans will have to fight hard to protect their water from corporate greed. They can learn a lot from El Salvador.
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Cleaner Energy is Coming. The Public Needs to Own It.
A future where the people that consume energy are the primary owners and decision-makers of that energy infrastructure is possible.
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To Win a Green New Deal, Pass the PRO Act
The PRO Act would establish a baseline for ensuring that working people can fight for and win transformative climate policies that benefit everyone.
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Reports
Community Hearing on Transit Equity 2021: Findings and Recommendations
Findings from the Transit Equity 2021 report highlight organizing successes, existing inequities, and policy solutions for U.S. public transit.
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.