Environmental & Social Justice
NYSERDA now has a new goal of ensuring the state’s Clean Energy Fund delivers 40% of benefits of spending to disadvantaged communities.
Environmentalists and climate justice advocates said they support New York’s agricultural and land use policy proposals, but they also offered suggestions.
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A critic of hydropower says politicians often make “vacuous statements about a particular energy source being clean, but that is not the case.”
Oregon’s Department of Energy is seeking ways to dispense $50 million in public funding to support community-based renewable energy efforts.
The Vermont Climate Council heard recommendations for following New York’s model on establishing a social cost of carbon for climate action plan analyses.
Leading lawmakers in Connecticut have not ruled out a special session this fall that could provide advocates another chance to push for passage of the TCI-P.
Mass. regulators have proposed a mechanism for tying quantifiable equity goals and GHG emission reductions to state energy efficiency program funding.
Climate activists mobilized in front of the Massachusetts State House to protest fossil-fuel infrastructure development in environmental justice communities.
A California Air Resources Board proposal would give car manufacturers a new way to earn ZEV credits under the state’s Advanced Clean Cars program.
Natalie Edwards, global diversity officer at National Grid, said businesses must see their workforce and potential talent “as having infinite possibility.”
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