Research
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...
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...
State Priority Climate Action Plans Assessment Spreadsheet
Climate XChange, Evergreen Collaborative, and RMI reviewed 47 climate plans from 45 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia that were submitted to the U.S. EPA as part of the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) program. This program, a...
We Read 6,795 Pages of State Climate Plans. Here’s a First Look at What We Found.
Almost every state has stood up to take action on the latest IRA opportunity. Here are the numbers documenting their climate ambition. Millions of dollars are about to flow to states to help them tackle their unique local climate challenges. The...
Foundational Policies are Driving States’ Emissions Cuts: Analyzing our Latest Research with RMI
2023 has seen monumental progress in climate policy, with states enacting high–impact climate policies and playing a crucial role in implementing billions of federal climate dollars. As many policymakers and advocates begin to turn their attention to 2024, it’s important...
Delivering on Justice40: Perspectives from State Agency Staff
Delivering on Justice40: Perspectives from State Agency Staff This report surveys the barriers that state agency staff face when deploying federal climate and clean energy funds to priority communities. Based on interviews with 16 state agency managers of Justice40 covered programs,...
Measuring State Climate Ambition through New Research with RMI
Climate XChange partnered with RMI on updating their State Climate Scorecards, a project that illustrates the effect current policies will have on climate-aligned emission reduction targets for 20 states. The Scorecards model expected greenhouse gas emission reductions — both economy-wide...
Introducing the State Climate Policy Dashboard
Our brand new State Climate Policy Dashboard (The Dashboard) serves as a one-stop shop for all things state climate policy. The Dashboard has two main components: 1) the State Climate Policy Tracker, which tracks 51 climate policies across all 50...
Report: An Assessment of Environmental Justice Policy in U.S. Climate Alliance States
This white paper tracks the status and trends of three procedural environmental justice (EJ) policies across 24 U.S. Climate Alliance (“Alliance”) states: How each state defines an environmental justice community Each state’s environmental justice mapping capabilities The status of dedicated...