Location: Louisiana

This post includes climate and environment headlines, data points, and key takeaways from recent public polls – including new national polling on climate change, international climate action, and the cost impacts of climate change and clean energy + new statewide polling in Louisiana about climate change and foreign trade.

This report looks at this process of power building for just transition in four states: California, Kentucky, Louisiana, and New York. We combine an analysis of the pillars of just transition – strong governmental support, dedicated funding streams, diverse coalitions, and economic diversification – with an analysis of how to change power at a state level that focuses on the conditions that impact possibilities, the community-level capabilities that facilitate effective voice, and the arenas in which power is contested.