About Our Resources
We designed these tools to assist advocates and policy makers with their work to advance energy equity.
Federal Community Benefits: A Framework for Energy Justice Partially Realized
Federal community benefit plans represented the United States’ most ambitious attempt to integrate energy justice into climate investment. Critical gaps in participation and enforcement reveal lessons for future policy design.
The Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy
The Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy is a national nonprofit advancing energy sovereignty for Native Nations. Since 2016, the Alliance has addressed the greatest clean energy challenges for Tribal communities: access to capital, technical expertise, and policy reform.
Webinar: Solar Solutions: Community and Coalition Responses to Federal Policy Rollbacks
As federal solar programs face rollbacks, communities are mobilizing innovative solutions. Join our conversation to learn how communities and coalitions are filling gaps left by federal retreat.
Solar for All on the Ground: Implementation, Innovation, and Uncertain Future
Federal policy chaos threatens the EPA’s $7 billion Solar for All program , but tribal and state programs prove energy justice survives through local partnerships and coordination infrastructure.
The Footprint Project
The Footprint Project is changing how we respond to disasters by bringing clean energy to communities in times of crisis. Instead of using polluting fossil-fuel generators, Footprint Project uses solar panels and batteries on wheels to power critical services during disasters.
Reclaim Our Power
Reclaim Our Power is transforming California’s energy landscape by challenging the state’s failed private utility model and demanding a transition toward a safe, reliable, community-and-worker-owned energy system.
Municipal Utility Advocacy Resource Guide
Transform municipal utilities into community-controlled power. Learn from Cleveland’s 117-year victory & proven models in Austin, Seattle & Sacramento.
Environmental Protection Network (EPN)
Founded in 2017, the Environmental Protection Network (EPN) brings together over 700 former EPA career staff and political appointees—spanning Democratic and Republican administrations—to protect human health and the environment.
ReImagine Appalachia
ReImagine Appalachia is changing the conversation around the energy transition by prioritizing communities. This innovative coalition of labor unions, environmental advocates, community organizations, and policymakers works across states in the Ohio River Valley…