Issue: IRA

This report includes case studies of farmers, township officials, and county leaders who have navigated the challenges of siting and permitting issues for clean energy projects, and provides a path forward to improve permitting processes, respect landowner rights, and expand rural economic opportunity.

We have our work cut out for us. Every day, the Trump administration launches a fresh attack on clean energy. Today, I want to share a path forward to bolster our clean energy narrative and messaging (so we can organize more effectively), based on my conversations and insights from the Lab’s Clean Energy Hub.

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I’m headed to my 3rd New York City Climate Week in just a few days. This time around it seems that the question on everyone’s (and by “everyone” I mean frontline advocates) mind is how we message on climate change and clean energy in the current political climate. T

This article discusses the state of and paths to mitigate misengagement, or engagement processes that are insular, instrumental, abbreviated, and that hold a single objective for solar projects. Researchers discuss a framework for a more meaningful community engagement process called community-centered solar development (CCSD).

A poll of voters in August exploring Americans’ concerns about the cost of energy, their energy priorities, and their views on different energy types, growing energy demand, and the energy provisions in the OBBBA.

A new poll from Data for Progress explores voter attitudes toward nuclear and geothermal, particularly in the context of local deployment and decarbonization.