Truly effective climate policy will require ‘a cultural shift that is bigger than legislation.’
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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
How Trade Agreements Stand in the Way of an International Green New Deal
To reduce emissions abroad, the U.S. must renegotiate its trade agreements.
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Labor Unions Must Lead a Just Transition from Fossil Fuels to Clean Energy
Some labor leaders have already scorched proposals like the Green New Deal even as affected sectors continue to lose jobs.
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A Handout for Uber and Lyft Is No Replacement for Public Transit
Transportation network services have resisted regulations on workers’ rights, traffic safety, and the environment. The public shouldn’t subsidize them.
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After Trump
Centrist liberalism is dead, and Trump is a disaster. But progressives can use what he’s done to remake America and its place in the world.
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Climate-Striking Young People Get Climate Change. Why Can’t Their Elders?
In deeply unequal societies, the rich and powerful never feel the environmental pain.
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Trump’s Militarized Budget Slashes Medicare, Medicaid, and Clean Energy
Trump’s federal budget proposal is the largest in history. It includes a massive military budget, funded through cuts to programs that help poor and middle-class Americans.
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An Open Letter to DC’s Transit Authority: Don’t Subsidize Uber — Restore Service!
Metro’s plan to subsidize its own competition will hurt the planet, public transit, and the working people who rely on it.
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Trump Budget Would Cut Spending for Nearly Every Agency Except Pentagon
Trump is requesting an unprecedented level of military spending.
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If America can find $716bn for the military, it can fund the Green New Deal
If we redirected the trillions spent on fruitless wars, funding Medicare for All and a Green New Deal is perfectly realistic
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Reports
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
Report: OceanaGold in the Philippines
Ten Violations that Should Prompt Its Removal