Our environmental, energy and climate justice work is focused on advancing equitable and just outcomes through research and engagement in the policymaking process. We accomplish this by building principled partnerships with affected groups and participating in a variety of policy proceedings.
Our work is focused on: (1) Developing and promoting robust distributional analysis of regulations and other policies to illuminate whether any economic or demographic group may disproportionately bear the burdens or receive the benefits; (2) Advancing environmental justice (EJ) analysis in government decisionmaking (with a focus on mapping tools, identifying EJ communities, finding disproportionality, and cumulative impacts); (3) Providing legal, policy, and economic technical assistance for EJ communities and relevant advocacy groups; and (4) Ensuring that relevant groups, including low-income communities and communities of color, are meaningfully involved in how decisions are made, especially in state and federal energy and climate policy proceedings.
Recent projects & Updates
Publications
- Procedural Equity at Public Utility Commissions / January 9, 2024
- Electricity Tariff Design via Lens of Energy Justice / January 1, 2023
In the News
- A Full Trip Around the Sun, Yet EJ Remains Eclipsed at FERC / April 12, 2024
- One Year Later: We Are Still Waiting For Environmental Justice / April 8, 2024
Past Events
- WEBINAR: Institute for Policy Integrity’s Introduction to Justice40 & the CEJST Tool / January 22, 2024
- CONFERENCE: Accelerating the Energy Transition / September 19, 2023