• Climate Change

Climate Justice Coalition’s National Network Supports House Dems’ Climate Crisis Action Plan

• #ClimateActionNow
• climate justice
• Environmental Justice
• frontline communities

A coalition of nearly 300 progressive groups that span the environmental and civil rights movements have been working together for a year to hammer out the pillars of a climate justice plan they want to see passed, and the House Climate Crisis Committee adopted much of it in the comprehensive Solving the Climate Crisis Action Plan released on Tuesday.

Why This Matters:  When they work together in a coalition, these groups have real political muscle.

• Energy

Virginia To Greatly Expand Renewable Energy Under New State Law

• #cleanenergy
• #climatechange
• conservation
• environment
• frontline communities
• renewable energy
• solar energy
• Virginia
• wind energy

Virginia will close all its coal-fired power plants by 2024 and its electricity will all come from renewable sources by and be 100 percent carbon-free by 2050 under a new law the Governor signed yesterday, with penalties imposed on the utilities that fail to meet these deadlines.

Why This Matters:  State government elections matter too. This is the most ambitious clean energy program enacted by a Southern state (yet).

• Politics

Democratic Debate Tonight: What Might CNN Ask?

• climate change
• CNN
• Democratic Debate
• Detroit
• frontline communities
• Sunrise Movement

The second Democratic debate tonight and tomorrow night, which is being held in Detroit, offers CNN an opportunity to ask some environment/climate questions that are particularly of interest due to the local audience who are drawn from a “frontline community” as conceived of in the Green New Deal that has been endorsed by several candidates.