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Is EPA Going Easy on a Gas Plant in Your Community?
When EPA proposed its landmark carbon pollution standards for power plants earlier this year, the agency left out one big chunk of the fleet: 95 percent of fossil gas plants.
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What’s Holding the Biden Administration Back from Cleaning Up Pollution in Port and Freight Communities?
The Biden administration has one of its biggest opportunities to advance environmental justice and tackle climate pollution in one go by strengthening EPA’s heavy-duty vehicle pollution standards.
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What Does the Air in Our Homes Have To Do With the Climate Crisis?
Indoor air pollution has disproportionately burdened Black, Brown, and lower-income communities. States have an opportunity to address these inequities and tackle the climate crisis with IRA funding and local regulations.
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In Solidarity With UAW: Why We Need Good Jobs in the EV Transition
The collective climate and labor movement must fight for a fair deal as workers negotiate for economic justice in the clean energy economy.
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Trains Are a Climate Solution, Just Not in the United States. Here’s Why.
Pollution from freight trains is poisoning millions of Americans. The rail industry is fighting to keep it that way. We shouldn't let them.
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What Are Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grants?
Disadvantaged community members get to be the decision-makers in this first-of-its-kind IRA program. By putting $3 billion directly into community members’ hands, they get to decide and build projects that best suit their clean energy needs.
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Is Your Utility Company Fighting for Dirty Fuels or Clean Energy?
Utilities are claiming to be clean energy leaders, but their lobbyists at Edison Electric Institute (EEI) are trying to squash common-sense carbon pollution standards for power plants.
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The IRA Turned One. What’s Happened Since and What’s Next?
One year ago, President Biden signed the IRA into law. What’s happened since and what’s next?
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Quiz: Test your IRA IQ
We passed the biggest climate bill in American history two years ago. How much do you know about how these investments are transforming our economy, advancing environmental justice, and cutting climate pollution? Find out now!
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Four Ways Michiganders Could Benefit from Climate and Clean Energy Legislation Being Considered Now
Michigan has until the end of 2023 to pass a package of state climate and clean energy legislation to unlock billions of dollars in climate investments, cut family energy costs, and create thousands of jobs.
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