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Webinar Recap: Connecting the Dots Between Grid Investments and Energy Affordability
Investing in our energy grid secures reliable, resilient electricity and saves money in the long run. However, state policies working to accelerate these investments — including modernizing our transmission grid or expanding it to connect to new clean energy resources...
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...
Webinar Recap: The Budget Bill’s Climate Impacts and What States Can Do
The budget reconciliation bill, signed into law by President Trump last week, guts federal climate and clean energy funding and is expected to eliminate American jobs, raise electricity prices, and worsen pollution and public health impacts across the country. There’s a...
Webinar Recap: Federal Clean Vehicle Rollbacks and How States Can Fill the Gaps
After years of increased EV adoption, battery technology advancement, and many supportive policies across all levels of government, the Trump administration has begun rolling back federal clean transportation regulations and funding. During the next four years, it’s clear that states...
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....
Recap: Data Centers and State Climate Policy
With the rapid buildout of data centers across the country, states must have strong policies to mitigate their impacts to the climate and local communities. While these resource-intensive facilities may support economic development, they also pose significant challenges for states...
Webinar Recap: State Engagement with Regional Transmission Processes, A MISO Case Study
States must prioritize transmission modernization and expansion to ensure a reliable, affordable, and resilient energy future, but much of the transmission grid is regulated at the regional and federal levels. It’s important that states are able to engage with other...
Webinar Recap: EPA’s Climate Rollbacks and How States Can Fill the Gaps
On March 12, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced their plan to reconsider and potentially roll back a long list of the agency’s own policies and regulations. This could amount to a sweeping change in how the EPA regulates electric...
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...