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Access relevant resources from Community Voices in Energy that will help you understand your rights, fight for justice, and have a voice in the energy transition.
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Community Testimonies
These testimonies have been submitted to public utility commissions in actual rate cases. They illustrate the kind of information that is typically included in a testimony, as well as the tone and style that is effective with regulators.
How to Get Involved in Energy Decisions
A resource to help community advocates take action to be part of shaping a more just energy future.
Investing in Transmission Saves Costs for Consumers
Fact sheet explains how investment in electric transmission lines results in lower costs for electricity customers.
State Climate Equity Survey Map
Explore this map to find out what policies are in place where, if there are models of legislation that might work in your state, and the statutes that you might leverage in your own fight for energy equity in your community.
State Climate Equity Survey Report
Report documents how state rules support a just and equitable energy transition. Of the 50 states surveyed, 34 have some climate equity measure already in place.
Building Transmission to Secure a Clean & Equitable Electricity Grid
Report offers a solution set for building
transmission to advance an equitable clean energy
future.
Climate Resilience Maturity Model
The Climate Resilience Maturity Model is a tool for regulators to hold utilities and companies accountable for meeting their obligation to provide safe, reliable, and affordable service, by managing risks associated with climate change by designing and building systems that are resilient in the face of these increasing risks.
Energy (in)Equity Training
Energy (in)Equity is a professional training that examines how the energy industry perpetuates systemic and racial injustice and what each participant can do to address injustices through individual and collective policy work.
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Energy Equity Project
The Energy Equity Project is a collaborative initiative housed at University of Michigan’s School for Environment and Sustainability and is part of the Urban Energy Justice Lab.
The Chisholm Legacy Project
The Chisholm Legacy Project connects Black communities on the frontlines of climate justice with resources to take action and move from vision to strategy to action plan to implementation.
Emerald Cities Collaborative
A national nonprofit network working to develop energy, green infrastructure and other projects that create sustainable, just, and inclusive economies with opportunities for all.
Blacks in Green
An environmental economic development nonprofit based in Chicago that advances self-sustaining Black communities by offering whole-system solutions.
The Applied Economics Clinic
A non-profit consulting group that offers expert services in the areas of energy, environment, consumer protection, and equity and provides on-the-job training to the next generation of technical experts.
Black Oaks Center
A 40-acre eco-campus in the historic Black farming community of Pembroke Township, Illinois that empowers people with knowledge and skills to build self-reliant, resilient communities.
Climable
A woman-led nonprofit with a mission to make climate science and clean energy understandable and actionable for everyone.
Climate Advocacy Lab
A community of over 3,700 climate advocates, organizers, researchers, and data specialists helping climate advocates run smarter public engagement campaigns.
Climate and Development Lab
A think tank at Brown University informing a more just, equitable, and effective global climate change policy.
The Energy Democracy Project
A collaboration of more than 30 diverse, local, frontline organizations working to advance the energy democracy movement in the U.S.
Energy Efficiency for All
Energy Efficiency for All unites people from diverse sectors and backgrounds, to collectively make multifamily homes healthy and affordable through energy and water efficiency.
The Environmental Law & Policy Center
The Midwest’s leading environmental legal advocacy organization; we drive transformational policy changes with national impacts.
Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition
The Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition is made up of hundreds of organizations working to improve public health and the environment, protect consumers, and create equitable, clean jobs across the state.
Initiative for Energy Justice
Initiative for Energy Justice aims to offer concrete energy policy solutions focused on equity, in order to advance a Just Transition and build power for marginalized communities, particularly frontline communities and communities of color.
Just Solar Coalition
The Just Solar Coalition supports a transition to a green economy that includes everyone, helps to close the employment gap, and creates a new story about the community’s role in the energy system.
NAACP
A nonprofit that is the home of grassroots activism for civil rights and social justice; it advocates, agitates, and litigates for the civil rights due to Black America.
Partnership for Southern Equity
A nonprofit that advances policies and institutional actions that promote racial equity and shared prosperity in metropolitan Atlanta and the American South.
Soulardarity
Soulardarity is building a brighter future in Highland Park, Illinois through education, organizing, and people-powered clean energy.
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy promotes responsible and equitable energy choices to ensure clean, safe, and healthy communities throughout the Southeast.
We Act for Environmental Justice
A nonprofit that empowers and organizes low-income, people of color to build healthy communities for all.
