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  1. In 2025, We’re Counting On Good Strategy, Coordinated Investments, and Deep Partnerships

    A new case study conducted by the Climate Advocacy Lab examines the strategies deployed by the Equity Fund and its allied funders to support an inclusive movement and field infrastructure that led to significant policy victories in Minnesota—including the state’s 2023 100% clean energy law.

  2. An Open Letter to Climate Philanthropists: Join Us in Investing in Diverse Community Leadership for Successful Federal Implementation

    We call on our colleagues across the philanthropic sector to heed the urgency of investments in diverse community leadership. It’s essential to achieving a clean energy transition and climate resilience. Jodeen Olguín-Tayler, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships, Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund, and the Climate Equity Action Fund…

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  3. A Robust Definition of Environmental Justice Communities Must Be Intersectional

    Comprehensively identifying environmental justice communities is a must for directing funding to those who need it most.

  4. “Green” Biomass Boom Leaves Trail of Dirty Air and Decimated Forests

    Learn more about how biomass – particularly woody biomass – is not a “green” solution and actually does more harm than good.

  5. Despite “Renewable” Credentials, Biogas is Threatening our Clean Energy Future

    When Hurricane Florence dumped a record-breaking 36 inches of rain on eastern North Carolina in September of 2018, it left 40 people dead and caused $24 billion in damages. It also led to the leakage of more than 7 million gallons of untreated animal waste into local waterways.

  6. What’s in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) for Environmental Justice?

    Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Just Solution Collective’s blog, and is shared here with their permission. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), lauded as the biggest climate change legislation in the history of the United States, passed the U.S. Senate on August 7, 2022 and was signed…