Overcharged: The Rules Of The Electricity Affordability Crisis
Nearly a quarter of adults in the US—or over 52 million people—cannot pay their power bills. The need to decarbonize and build a climate-resilient grid are …
Climate and Community Institute (CCI) creates research that connects issues that dominate our political economy directly with the climate crisis. We lay the groundwork for ambitious and creative climate goals in the near term, and build the vision for a just, decarbonized future.
Nearly a quarter of adults in the US—or over 52 million people—cannot pay their power bills. The need to decarbonize and build a climate-resilient grid are …
Across the country, the chaotic and financially ruinous aftermath of climate disasters demonstrates that reliance on traditional home insurance models is unsustainable and perpetuates inequalities. Only …
Investigating US and UK military industrial complexes as economic, climate and geopolitical threats. Jointly founded by Common Wealth and Climate and Community Institute, Transition Security Project produces research and analysis to support …
In the face of energy transition projects, communities can deploy community benefits agreements (CBAs) to exert control over their futures. When communities get organized early, know …
Workers and organizers, representing different parts of the transportation supply chain, journey across Nevada to learn first-hand about the impacts of lithium mining for electric vehicle …
As extreme weather escalates, insurance prices balloon, and insurance companies refuse to renew existing policies or write new ones, insurers of last resort increasingly provide the …
One of the biggest obstacles for enacting green industrial policy (GIP), particularly for fiscally constrained countries in the Global South, is financing it. This is especially …
Amidst overlapping environmental and economic crises, green industrial policy (GIP) is playing an increasingly salient role in global politics. But conceptions of what GIP is—or what …
New research from Consumer Federation of America and Climate and Community Institute shows that a typical homeowner with a low credit score will pay nearly $2,000 …
Transportation policy represents a key tool to address both the cost of living and climate crises. In the United States, the shortcomings of today’s transportation system …