An interview with Kaitlyn Joshua, a leader in the grassroots fight against CCUS and its associated fossil fuel and petrochemical dominion in South Louisiana.
Blueprints for Belonging
The Gateway Cities Regional Climate Collaborative shows what it can look like to build belonging through civic infrastructure in Southeast Los Angeles.
Blueprints for Belonging
For more than five decades, Casa Familiar has built the relationships, trust, and shared expectations that allow residents to shape their community’s future. Read about La Semilla, a climate resiliency center, gathering space, and neighborhood-scale demonstration site.
By Elena Krieger, PhD. The data are in: nationwide, household electricity prices rose nearly twice as fast as inflation last year. Across the United States, average residential electricity prices increased 5% between 2024 and 2025, according to data just released from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.[1] The inflation
By Brandon Dawson Across the US, communities are facing fast-moving energy affordability crises while navigating an increasingly complex policy landscape. Yet many solutions already exist, developed through the organizing, advocacy, and ingenuity of communities across the country. Now more than ever, it is critical to leverage what we know
By Elena Krieger, PhD. States face an urgent need to address energy costs—and to do so in a lasting way that ensures long-term bill savings and continues to accelerate the transition to a clean energy future. Across the country, households are struggling to pay for mounting energy bills.
Driving innovative, equitable solutions to the climate crisis in support of healthy, resilient communities and accountable democratic institutions.
In North San Joaquin Valley, BEAM operates as a backbone for a growing regional ecosystem that identifies gaps and helps fill them through coordination, technical assistance, grants, strategic investments, and shared infrastructure.
The scale and duration of the harm experienced by Gary residents were shaped by inequities, disinvestment, utility decisions, and regulatory choices that existed long before the winds arrived.
By Lew Daly A Blow for Carbon Capture in Ascension Parish, Louisiana On June 30th, industrial gases giant Air Products announced that it was canceling its Louisiana Clean Energy Complex (LCEC) sited in the Darrow-Burnside area of Ascension Parish, absorbing $2.9 billion in losses and sending shockwaves across
The data that local and state governments rely on to navigate economic challenges and growing threats to health and safety may become less reliable or simply unavailable due to a new Department of Commerce order.
Spotlight: RiSE4EJ advances equitable energy storage in Kansas City and beyond
The energy strategy centering corporate profit-making has failed, but we can turn the tide and create a people-centered politics for the public good as a pathway to affordability.
“If we’re not prepared to govern, we’re not prepared to win.” -Movement Generation
Unions, bargaining for the common good, can be a powerful actor and a model for others to organize to reclaim decision-making over energy prices and systems.
Our shared freedom requires continuous testing, transparency, and open debate; legal reforms to meet new circumstances; and active tending to and recognition of injustices, both now and in the past, so we can build a future where all of us thrive.
People that can turn to each other for support, even in the poorest neighborhoods, can create powerful buffer against energy and climate disruptions and build political power.
Energy affordability is a multi-level crisis that requires addressing systemic costs equitably through adoption of grid resilience standards and strategies, starting with the most climate-vulnerable and energy-burdened communities.
The variability of wind and solar can be an advantage for energy consumers who can turn their power as energy users into savings.
