Carlie Clarcq
Webinar Recap: Decarbonizing the Transportation Sector
See the slides from the webinar here The COVID-19 pandemic is proving how essential transportation is to the function of U.S. society — despite shutdowns and lockdowns across the country, public transportation has remained open throughout, because without it, many essential...
Nations around the world are planning for a green recovery. Is the U.S. falling behind?
The Covid-19 pandemic is taking an immense toll on our country. With 1.8 million cases and counting, the U.S. has more coronavirus victims than any other nation in the world. On top of this health crisis, unemployment rates hit at...
Quinault Nation Looks to Carbon Pricing to Preserve Cultural Ties and Adapt to Climate Impacts
Like many Indigenous people around the world, the people of the Quinault Indian Nation (QIN) have always been intrinsically connected to the natural environment. Stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the Olympic Mountains, the reservation depends upon natural resources as...
Webinar Recap: The Role of Agriculture and Carbon Capture as Natural Climate Solutions
As we get closer to 2030, the year that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has given us to reduce our emissions by 50% before we face catastrophic climate effects, it becomes more essential to find creative solutions to reduce...
Florida Passes its First Bill Addressing Climate Change
For the past three years, Senator Jose Javier Rodríguez has arrived to work every day in Tallahassee wearing rain boots with the words #ActOnClimateFL clearly visible on the side. In the Sunshine State, climate change-caused sea level rise, coastal erosion,...
New Jersey’s Plan for Investing RGGI Funds Intends to Put Equity at the Forefront
On March 11th, New Jersey participated in their first Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) auction after formally rejoining the Northeast cap-and-invest program last year. This auction generated more than $20 million in funding for the state, and last Friday, New...
The Tennessee Legislator Fighting Air Pollution with Carbon Pricing Policy
Since the start of 2019, 44 different carbon pricing bills have been introduced in states in every region of the country. While some states have considered carbon pricing for many years, such as Massachusetts and Oregon, others are just beginning...
Webinar Recap: Cities Confronting the Climate Crisis
Across the U.S., states are passing smart climate policy. In the first few months of 2020 alone, Virginia passed legislation committing the state to clean energy by 2050, Rhode Island set the most ambitious energy targets of any state in...
Coronavirus Compounds Health Risks of Air Pollution
The coronavirus crisis has completely transformed life across the globe. Already, COVID-19 infections span across six continents and cases are confirmed in almost every country, with the virus yet to peak in most. While the disease has affected the lives...