Issue: Oil

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 on recent hurricanes and the government’s disaster response, new polling on renewable energy and grid expansion, and new state polls about energy issues in Pennsylvania, California, and Texas.

We are thrilled to share this week’s newsletter with Philly Thrive, one of our 2024 Climate Justice Micrograntees. Philly Thrive is based in the Grays Ferry neighborhood in Philadelphia and has worked for nearly a decade to correct environmental injustices in South Philly, primarily related to the PES oil refinery. In 2020, they successfully closed it down. Read on for reflections from Philly Thrive’s organizers on and check out their video series chronicling lessons learned through their Right to Breathe Campaign.

This post includes climate and environment headlines, data points, and key takeaways from recent public polls – including lots of new polling on climate and the environment as issues in this year’s election, new polling of Latino voters, new polling about conservation in the states that touch the Mississippi River, and new polling about clean energy infrastructure siting in California.

With the IRA’s 2nd anniversary, we’ve seen the positive ripples of the IRA spread across the nation. The Climate Jobs National Resource Center announced that over 6,200 IRA-eligible clean energy projects are planned, in development or already complete. CJNRC estimates the sum of all projects across the country will create over 3 million jobs that can boost pay and job quality by meeting IRA labor provisions, and generate over 1 million megawatts of clean power.