Issue: Energy Policy

This Article describes and analyzes the growing local opposition to rural solar energy and ultimately argues for a wave of new state legislation designed to strengthen rural landowners’ rights to develop utility-scale solar projects on their land.

A campaign playbook: “How Richmond Made Polluters Pay” — documenting the Richmond coalition’s lessons learned and recommendations for other communities near extractive industries to build a ballot measure campaign. We hope that some of the lessons learned from our campaign will be helpful to other refinery communities.

This post includes climate and environment headlines, data points, and key takeaways from recent public polls – including new polling about federal funding cuts, including to national parks and forests, and new polling about carbon dioxide removal (CDR).