• Politics

States Are Beginning to Enact Environmental Justice Laws

• #COVID
• climate change
• climate justice
• Environmental Justice
• Joe Biden
• racism

With the Trump administration rolling back environmental protections and exacerbating environmental inequalities, the burden had landed on states to take up measures to protect minority and poor communities.

Why This Matters:  Environmental Justice (EJ) was still not well known in 2019 when Senators Cory Booker, Tammy Duckworth, and Tom Carper created the first EJ Caucus in the Senate in 2019. And as with climate, state governments are leading the way.

• Energy

Wind Power Blows Coal Away in Texas

• clean power
• coal
• Joe Biden
• renewable energy
• Solar
• Texas
• wind

Wind power has overtaken coal as a proportion of Texas’s power for the first time and promises to continue growing. In 2020, wind power made up almost a quarter of Texas’s total power, compared to just 18% from coal.

Why This Matters: Texas is the nation’s largest producer of both wind energy and fossil fuel energy.

• Politics

Biden’s Climate Plan to Benefit Southern States Most Profoundly

• Build Back Better
• clean energy
• climate change
• Joe Biden
• President Biden

by Natasha Lasky, ODP Contributing Writer President-elect Joe Biden has promised that in his first 100 days as president, he will work diligently to tackle what he calls “the No. 1 issue facing humanity”: climate change. His climate plan aims to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, and to produce carbon-free electricity production by 2035, while […]

• Climate Change

Biden Looks to Paris as Trump Tantrum Continues

• Biden Administration
• Donald Trump
• Joe Biden
• Paris Agreement
• Treasury Department

by Miro Korenha, co-founder and publisher of Our Daily Planet After the United States formally withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement, the Joe Biden transition team has repeatedly signaled that rejoining the international agreement will be a Day 1 priority. Biden’s all-of-government approach to climate action will help orient the power of the federal government […]

• Sustainability

DITCHED: Greening the Banks with Patrick McCully and Joe Sanberg

• #Ditched
• Biden Administration
• green finance
• Joe Biden

Banks don’t just hold on to your dollars and cents, they also play a role in addressing the climate crisis.  In the latest episode of Political Climate’s DITCHED series, the show takes a closer look at the banking sector and what institutions like JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and others can do […]

• Animals

#DOTUS On Instagram

• #DOTUS
• dogs
• Joe Biden
• White House

Normalcy will return to the White House in January — the First Family will again have pets!  The Bidens have two dogs, Champ and Major, and now an Instagram account with 60,000 followers, and even their own hashtag #DOTUS.  The Obamas had two dogs, Sunny and Bo, and the Bushes had two cats and a […]