Posts Tagged State Climate Action
In Solidarity With UAW: Why We Need Good Jobs in the EV Transition
The collective climate and labor movement must fight for a fair deal as workers negotiate for economic justice in the clean energy economy.
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Everything You Need to Know About Implementing the IRA’s Most Important Programs
Our work isn’t done yet. Here’s how we take key programs from the Inflation Reduction Act and put them into action.
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Trains Are a Climate Solution, Just Not in the United States. Here’s Why.
Pollution from freight trains is poisoning millions of Americans. The rail industry is fighting to keep it that way. We shouldn't let them.
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What Are Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grants?
Disadvantaged community members get to be the decision-makers in this first-of-its-kind IRA program. By putting $3 billion directly into community members’ hands, they get to decide and build projects that best suit their clean energy needs.
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Is Your Utility Company Fighting for Dirty Fuels or Clean Energy?
Utilities are claiming to be clean energy leaders, but their lobbyists at Edison Electric Institute (EEI) are trying to squash common-sense carbon pollution standards for power plants.
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The IRA Turned One. What’s Happened Since and What’s Next?
One year ago, President Biden signed the IRA into law. What’s happened since and what’s next?
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Quiz: Test your IRA IQ
We passed the biggest climate bill in American history last year. How much do you know about how these investments are transforming our economy, advancing environmental justice, and cutting climate pollution? Find out now!
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Four Ways Michiganders Could Benefit from Climate and Clean Energy Legislation Being Considered Now
Michigan has until the end of 2023 to pass a package of state climate and clean energy legislation to unlock billions of dollars in climate investments, cut family energy costs, and create thousands of jobs.
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What Are Energy Communities and How Can They Benefit From the IRA?
The IRA targets clean energy benefits to particular communities—energy communities—that have been heavily dependent on fossil fuels and will be most impacted by the changes in the energy landscape.
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How States Can Be Leaders on Transportation Equity Through the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Program
Evergreen talked to public health and environmental justice expert Dr. Shelley Francis to better understand the disproportionate effects of transportation pollution on communities of color and what we can do about it.
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