Intersection
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Environmental Justice Tools For Activating Local Communities in Maryland
The Rebuild Maryland Coalition is a growing group of 350 + organizations and individuals representing Faith Communities, Civil Rights organizations, Non-Profits, Labor Unions, Businesses, Educational Groups, and Environmental Groups. This diverse group of stakeholders formed in 2020 to establish practical...
An Inequitable Pandemic: How Environmental Racism Has Worsened COVID-19 in Communities of Color
The COVID-19 pandemic is an injustice that is intersectional at its core. The inequities associated with this crisis are innately tied to specific preexisting disparities in public health, workers’ rights, housing stability, and more, but one critical and commonly overlooked...