Location: California

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 federal government cuts, a new edition of Colorado College’s long-running “Conservation in the West” survey, and recent polling on extreme weather in California.

This post includes climate and environment headlines, data points, and key takeaways from recent public polls – including new polling on climate impacts, the California wildfires, and disaster preparedness.

The Energy Project Benefits Repository includes 328 project benefits agreements from across the energy supply chain, from mining to manufacturing to energy generation, and across global geographies.

This report shares findings from a joint study of community benefit plans (CBPs) made by utilities and developers. RMI and the University of Minnesota (UMN) Center for Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (CSTEP) collaborated on the research and analysis.

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.

Voters in California and Texas both overwhelmingly agree that their states should be doing more to encourage solar power; voters see clear benefits of solar power for grid reliability, the economy, and costs. In California: Solar power – 85% agree that their utility should be using more; Wind power – 78%; Offshore wind power – 72%; Natural gas power – 57%; Nuclear power – 52%. In Texas: Solar power – 73% agree that their utility should be using more; Wind power – 69%; Natural gas power – 67%; Nuclear power – 50%; Coal power – 40%. Accordingly, large majorities in both California (85%) and Texas (71%) agree that their state’s policymakers should be doing more to encourage the use of solar power. In both states, there is a potent argument that solar can help to make an outdated electric grid more resilient and reliable.