Community Benefits Agreements
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 …
Fossil Fuel Phaseout
Getting off Gas: Improving Fossil Gas Regulation Now for a Post-fossil Fuel Future
The United States’ extensive fossil gas infrastructure is characterized by greenhouse gas emissions, methane leaks, and explosions that imperil lives, disproportionately affect the health and well-being …
Voters Support Phasing Out Fossil Fuel Extraction
Preventing catastrophic climate change impacts requires ending the extraction of fossil fuels, but the United States is on track to do the opposite. The US is …
Planning to Build Faster: A Solar Energy Case Study
Energy analysts suggest that the United States will need to build millions of acres of solar capacity—totaling an area potentially as large as West Virginia—to reach …
Deconstructing Gas Industry Propaganda
What is gas industry propaganda? Gas is a huge industry. It encompasses companies that extract gas (e.g. through drilling or hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking), …
A Progressive Take on Permitting Reform
The climate crisis is hitting communities across the United States with increasing force—wildfire seasons become more extreme each year, hurricanes hit the Gulf Coast with more …
Building Decarbonization has a Natural Gas Pipeline Problem
A disorderly, market-based process to reduce greenhouse gases by removing appliances that burn natural gas from every home and building in the United States has begun. …
We Choose Now: Gulf to Appalachia Climate Action Strategy
At this moment, the United States is advancing sweeping federal actions that could fund critical climate solutions or sink us further towards climate disaster. However, the …
An Economist’s Case for Restrictive Supply Side Policy
Until the rise of the Green New Deal, economists’ favored response to the climate crisis was some form of carbon pricing—leveraging the market to produce positive …
Building Public Renewables in the United States
We propose a new Federal Public Power Program that would create a public option for renewable energy across the United States that can catalyze decarbonization and …
