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Cities Confronting the Climate Crisis

REGISTER HERE   As federal climate action continues to lag, municipalities around the country have led the way in confronting the climate crisis, implementing ambitious and innovative policies to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, and transition to a clean energy economy.  Supreme Court...

Bridging the Virtual Gap: Featuring Danny Faber

Our April 3rd Webinar is featuring Danny Faber, Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University and Director of the Northeastern Environmental Research Collaborative. The coronavirus crisis has changed the world over the course of a few weeks. Our lives have been impacted...

Talking Trash: Sustainable Supply Chains and the Circular Economy

REGISTER HERE   The environmental challenges we currently face, and action needed to tackle the climate crisis cannot be accomplished without collaboration. Businesses and stakeholders need to partner across industries and through global supply chains to truly deliver impact at a transformative...

A Federal Price on Carbon

REGISTER HERE   Ever heard of the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act? It’s a federal proposal to put a $15 fee on every ton of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere (that increases by $10 each year) and rebates all of...

The Role of Carbon Pricing in a Just Transition

REGISTER HERE   Communities, particularly those at the intersection of different forms of marginalization and oppression, are shouldering the burdens of climate change and environmental pollution of all kinds. Eighty percent of Latinos live in areas that do not meet EPA standards...

Climate Risk 2019: Global Capital Markets and Public Policy Options

Watch our board member Claudine Schneider speak on a BrightTALK webinar: During the past 40 years Climate Science has accurately predicted rising sea levels, more rapid temperature rise at the poles and hurricanes and typhoons occurring at higher latitudes.  From 1998 to 2017...

The Conservative Case for Climate Action

Fighting climate change is something that cannot be put on hold, even in an era of extreme partisan gridlock. Economists agree that carbon pricing is one of the most effective ways to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, but as state...

2019 Legislative Briefing Call

Last month Massachusetts began a new two-year legislative session. What will be the legislature's climate, clean energy, and environmental priorities for 2019 and 2020? What bills are receiving the most attention? How will politics, inside and outside the building, impact...

What can we learn from Washington State?

In November, voters in Washington State rejected a ballot initiative that aimed to put a fee on carbon pollution, their second time doing so in as many years. The loss sparked some concern within the environmental community that carbon pricing...