Climate XChange Staff
2025 Update: Exploring State Climate Policy Trends and Opportunities
While the federal government has spent much of 2025 eliminating climate programs, cutting clean energy funding, and rolling back environmental regulations, states across the country have been exploring a wide range of policy approaches in an effort to meet our...
Reconciliation Bill Leaves Many Policy Gaps for States to Address
This article is a joint analysis from Climate XChange and Evergreen CollaborativeWith the enactment of the reconciliation legislation in early July, U.S. energy and climate policy has taken one of the sharpest regressive turns in history, sending shock waves through...
Policy Explainer: State-Level Strategies to Reduce HFC Emissions
Climate XChange’s Dashboard Digest is a deep dive on each of the policies that we track in the State Climate Policy Dashboard and an exploration of how these policies can interact with one another to form a robust policy landscape....
How States Can Fill the Gaps Left by the EPA’s Climate Deregulation
On March 12, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a list of agency actions and regulations under reconsideration, amounting to a sweeping change in how the agency regulates electric power, oil and gas production, vehicles, water and air quality, and...
2024 State Climate Progress: Our Full List of Enacted Policies and Trends
The Policy Progress section of our biweekly newsletter shares newly enacted state climate policies, including legislation and executive branch regulations. Below is an archive of our Policy Progress updates from 2024 and five trends we’ve seen from the policies states...
Policy Explainer: How States Can Cut Methane Emissions Through Food Waste Bans and Targets
Climate XChange’s Dashboard Digest is a deep dive on each of the policies that we track in the State Climate Policy Dashboard and an exploration of how these policies can interact with one another to form a robust policy landscape....
Introducing the New State Climate Policy Dashboard
Three years ago, we launched the State Climate Policy Dashboard to meet the need for an accurate, publicly-accessible, and comprehensive database on the current landscape of state-level climate policy. Since then, the Dashboard has helped climate actors across the country...
Policy Explainer: Drilling Down on State Efforts to Ban Fracking
Climate XChange’s Dashboard Digest is a deep dive on each of the policies that we track in the State Climate Policy Dashboard and an exploration of how these policies can interact with one another to form a robust policy landscape....
Key Takeaways from the EPA’s Implementation Grant Announcement
This week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the state, local, and Tribal* recipients for Implementation Grants from the Climate Pollution Reduction Grant (CPRG) program established in the Inflation Reduction Act. In total, the recipients were awarded more than...
