Intersection

Webinar Recap: Capitalizing on Climate Cash — State Strategies for Leveraging Federal Funding

With hundreds of billions of climate dollars unlocked by recent federal funding initiatives, including the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), states must be prepared to receive and leverage their money for climate and...

Webinar Recap: 2023 State Climate Policy Trends — What’s on the Horizon This Year

As state legislative sessions begin around the country, staying up to date with the latest policy trends is essential for any climate actor. In this webinar, Climate XChange invited a group of experts to explore what climate policies are being...

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Webinar Recap: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is — Best Practices for Implementing Biden’s Justice40 Initiative

In January of 2021, President Biden made a commitment to ensuring that 40 percent of certain federal investments related to climate and the environment benefit disadvantaged communities, the Justice40 Initiative. While this lofty goal designates climate justice as a national...

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Webinar Recap: Green Banks and the IRA — How States Can Leverage Funding for Climate Action

Among the many pro-climate funding mechanisms in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is the creation of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which grants the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) $20 billion to establish a national green bank, and an additional...

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Webinar Recap: Structuring State Governments to Prioritize Environmental Justice

As a core tenet of the environmental movement, environmental justice (EJ) continues to evolve in the state policy arena. However, states are realizing that as justice and equity policies progress, their government structure must also evolve to meet these new...

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Webinar Recap: Tackling Preemption: Fighting State Efforts to Block Municipal Climate Action

In the absence of state and federal climate action, cities around the country have turned to local policies to ensure a cleaner, greener future for themselves. Unfortunately, many state legislatures have introduced and even enacted bills that prohibit such local...

Webinar Recap: Equitable Climate Programs at the State and Local Level

Including equity in climate action is of the utmost importance, but many climate policy actors may be unsure of how exactly to do so in their climate programs. With the influx of federal climate funding initiatives and the ever-increasing pressure...

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What Does Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Have To Do With the Climate Crisis? – Everything!

Originally published by the Global Center for Climate Justice Author: Daniel Faber, Senior Research Fellow, Global Center for Climate Justice "The money that is funding this aggression comes from the same [place] as climate change does: fossil fuels. If we didn’t depend...

Profiting off Voter Suppression: The Disproportionate Impacts of Voter Suppression and the Climate Crisis

Authors: Lauren Goldberg and Daniel Faber, Global Center for Climate Justice  Under the shelter of its stars and stripes, the United States Constitution’s intention is to protect our unalienable rights and guarantee equal justice to all citizens. Voting is a time-honored...