After 30 years of community opposition and hundreds of emissions violations, one of the largest waste incineration plants in the country finally shut its doors for good. Read how a facility that exceeded pollution emissions standards more than 750 times can be considered a “climate solution” by policymakers in 23 states – and what to do about it.

For millions of families across the country, they have no choice but to keep their lights on and warm their homes with fossil fuel-based energy. Many grassroots organizations are fighting for something better: energy democracy. Guest author, Nora Elmarzouky of Emerald Cities Collaborative, illustrates how tools for energy democracy can orient organizers towards energy justice.

Perhaps the worst consequence of the outsized attention on hydrogen gas is that it distracts from more viable and cheaper climate solutions and policies. In this 2-part blog, we dispel what types and uses of hydrogen gas do and do not have a potential role in a truly clean and equitable energy transition. In Part 2, we describe better alternatives for clean energy solutions and – with caution – how specific hydrogen uses may have a role in our climate-just future.

Only hydrogen produced from zero-emission, renewable energy – known as “green hydrogen” – and used in a fuel cell is truly carbon-free and pollution-free. But fossil fuel advocates downplay this fact and want us to think that many types of hydrogen gas will play a big role in the clean energy transition. This is wrong. In this 2-part blog, we dispel what types and uses of hydrogen gas do and do not have a potential role in a truly clean and equitable energy transition. Part 1 describes what is incompatible with a climate-just future.

Communities already burdened by toxic air quality are now having to fight policies that would spew even more pollution into their neighborhoods – all under the guise of “clean energy.” Read our latest blog to find out which “clean” energy resources actually create more harm than good and three ways communities can course correct to the equitable clean energy future we all deserve.

The Equity Fund invites our philanthropic peers to join us in our ambitions to center Native communities in the fight for climate equity. It is time we, as a community, fund them to lead and win the climate fight.

How can “equitable investment” programs be truly equitable? We discuss three strategies advocates can organize around.

A new analysis projects that if New Mexico’s economy transitioned to 100% renewables across all sectors, nearly 100,000 more jobs would be created.

In Nevada, our cohort of grantees utilized a new approach to equitable decarbonization as an organizing tool to advance climate justice. They are carving out space for BIPOC-led community-based organizations to lead on equitable climate policy.

This is our call to action for funders: Let’s step boldly into this opening to redefine what is possible now. It is our imperative to find ways to strategically extend today’s single moment into sustained momentum.