By Zully Juarez On September 18, 2022, Hurricane Fiona hit and flooded Puerto Rico, leaving millions without power. It has been three weeks and more than 30,000 people still find themselves without power2. Hurricane Fiona comes just five years after Hurricane Maria caused a blackout throughout the island, lasting
By Sylvia Chi 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 into law by President Biden on August 16. Just Solutions completed a detailed analysis of the
By Tayler Ward This summer, Just Solutions Collective launched phase 1 of the Environmental Justice Community and Policy Landscape Project to better understand the interests and needs of leaders. This project aligns with our purpose to broaden and deepen the understanding of equitable and effective policies and projects to build
By Zully Juarez This summer, the Biden-Harris Administration announced six new actions to lower electricity bills for working families, funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The administration aims to accomplish this by lowering electricity costs and create clean energy jobs, including: 1. Connecting families to low-cost solar power
By Sylvia Chi On June 30, the last day of its 2022 term, the United States Supreme Court released its much-anticipated decision in West Virginia v. EPA, the high-profile federal climate change case. West Virginia was the finale of an extraordinary term marked by momentous decisions overturning longstanding
By Zully Juarez I hope that our health isn't determined by our zip code, race, ethnicity, income, and other identities. I am hoping that one day we can have healthier communities. Wendy Miranda, a community leader with Communities for a Better Environment and Wilmington, CA resident At Just
By Arjun Makhijani, PhD. Point-source carbon capture and sequestration: Also not the answer. In the first blog post of this series, I explored air capture of CO2 and found it unsuitable as a way to address mounting greenhouse gas concentrations due to cost as well as ecological considerations. In
By Sylvia Chi On April 14, the White House announced the release of Equity Action Plans developed by nearly all federal agencies. These Equity Action Plans were created in response to the President’s Executive Order 13985, “Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government,” which
By Zully Juarez The Just Solution Collective presents, “Energy Burden and the Clean Energy Transition”, a three-part blog series that addresses energy burden reduction as an important part of the clean energy transition for environmental justice and climate justice. Through this blog series, we will highlight key elements from
By Zully Juarez The Just Solution Collective presents, “Energy Burden and the Clean Energy Transition”, a three-part blog series that addresses energy burden reduction as an important part of the clean energy transition for environmental justice and climate justice. Through this blog series, we will highlight key elements from
By Arjun Makhijani, PhD. Air Carbon Capture Storage: Not the Answer to Keeping the Lid on at 1.5 degrees Celsius - Part 1 As we live the reality of climate disruption and weather extremes, the widely accepted goal is that the average global temperature rise must be limited to 1.
By Zully Juarez The Just Solution Collective presents, “Energy Burden and the Clean Energy Transition”, a three-part blog series that addresses energy burden reduction as an important part of the clean energy transition for environmental justice and climate justice. Through this blog series, we will highlight key elements from