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General Climate Justice

Covers cross-cutting policies and strategies that advance equity throughout climate and environmental decision-making, including community engagement, equitable investment, environmental justice governance, and protections for communities disproportionately burdened by pollution and climate change.

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Example States and State Governments

Washington State’s Cap-and-Trade Legislation

In April 2021 legislation from Washington State establishes a cap-and-trade system that puts a price on carbon emissions. The bill creates a “cap-and-invest” program to gradually set tighter limits on...
Model Law States and State Governments

LPDD Model Executive Order: CCS Energy Purchase Policies for State and Local Government

This Model Executive Order identifies overarching environmental goals and some of the benefits that would result from (i) state agencies purchasing a minimum amount of CCS energy for use in buildings,...
Resource Congress

The Inflation Reduction Act

New: The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Environmental Defense Fund are announcing the launch of an additional resource on the Inflation Reduction Act Tracker website: the IRA litigation case ...
Example Public Utilities

New York’s Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Make-Ready Program (2020)

In July 2020, the NY Public Service Commission approved a $700 million program funded by electric bills to help build more than 55,000 chargers by paying a portion of the transmission upgrades and sit...
Example States and State Governments

Maine’s LD1682

Maine’s LD1682 adds reducing GHG emissions to meet reduction goals and addressing and mitigating disproportionate energy burdens on environmental justice populations, frontline communities, and utilit...
Resource States and State Governments

Report, Environmental Justice in the Renewable Energy Transition

Ourka’s 2012 report provides a comparison of variable state definitions of biomass at page 86.
Resource States and State Governments

Report: Rethinking Manure Biogas: Policy Considerations to Promote Equity and Protect the Climate and Environment

This August 2022 report from the Environmental Justice Clinic at the Vermont Law and Graduate School dives deep into the existing policies incentivizing manure biogas operations, the environmental jus...
Resource States and State Governments

Sierra Club Report, Building Electrification Action Plan for Climate Leaders

This 2019 action plan from the Sierra Club outlines the technical challenges and benefits of building electrification, particularly in California. It provides decision-makers and staff in state and lo...
Example States and State Governments

Minnesota Fossil Phaseout by 2040 Legislation

In February, Minnesota’s Legislature approved a bill requiring utilities in the state to provide electricity from 100% carbon-free sources by 2040. The bill also calls for utilities to generate at lea...
Resource States and State Governments

Report, Toward Tradeable Building Performance Standards

Toward Tradeable Building Performance Standards offers a qualified defense of emissions trading programs in general, and suggests that tradeable credits in Building Energy Performance Standard program...
Resource Foreign

Report, Blueprint for Europe’s Just Transition

This 2019 report lays out the principles and strategies for a Green New Deal for Europe. Its scope comprises three distinct institutions: A Green Public Works investment program. An Environmental Unio...
Resource States and State Governments

New York’s Proposed S. 8198 (2022)

This 2022 bill would ensure that state regulation and oversight of gas utilities provides for the equitable achievement of the climate justice and emission reduction mandates set forth in New York’s C...
Resource Congress

Proposed National Climate Bank Legislation of 2019-20

Senator Ed Markey introduced legislation calling for a National Climate Bank (S. 2057), a nonprofit institution independent of government, designed to reduce energy costs and leave consumers and busin...
Example States and State Governments

Oregon’s HB 2021 (2021)

In June 2021, the Oregon Legislature passed HB2021 to require that retail electricity providers reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sold to Oregon consumers 80% by 2030, 90% by 2035, ...
Model Law States and State Governments

LPDD Model Law: State Law to Divert Food Waste from Landfills

This model state legislation lays out a framework by which states can divert food waste from landfills to eligible processing facilities (including industrial-scale composters) or onsite composters. T...