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It’s time to build a 100 percent clean future, deliver on environmental justice, and empower workers to compete in the global clean energy economy.

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What We're Doing

Building a 100 percent clean future

Stabilizing global warming starts with cutting carbon pollution in the United States to half of peak levels by 2030, leading global net greenhouse gas emissions to reach zero by midcentury, and sustaining net-negative emissions thereafter.

Creating good jobs in the United States

Building a 100 percent clean future will create millions of new jobs, and policy must ensure that these jobs are located here in the United States and provide workers fair wages, good benefits, and full collective bargaining rights.

Fighting for environmental justice

Partnering with environmental justice advocates to turn the tide against environmental injustice, economic inequality, and climate change will ensure everyone can realize their fundamental right to clean air, clean water, and healthy, thriving communities. 

 

Learning from leadership in the states

Creating a road map for federal action will lift up lessons learned from the states, local governments, and tribal nations that have made important strides for climate, justice, and jobs.

It's time to build a 100 percent clean future, deliver on environmental justice, and empower workers to compete in the global clean energy economy.

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The Trump Administration and Congressional Republicans’ Plan To Make Billionaires Richer May Make Americans Sicker Article
Cars travel on the highway to and from Los Angeles, which is enveloped in smog.

The Trump Administration and Congressional Republicans’ Plan To Make Billionaires Richer May Make Americans Sicker

The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are working to finance their plans to cut taxes for the ultrawealthy—and they are cutting environmental protection and clean energy programs, endangering American lives and livelihoods, as part of this effort.

Shannon Baker-Branstetter, Lucero Marquez

The Trump Administration Has Invited Power Plants to Emit More Toxic Pollution in a Giveaway to Corporate Polluters Article
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The Trump Administration Has Invited Power Plants to Emit More Toxic Pollution in a Giveaway to Corporate Polluters

In an unprecedented move, the Trump administration has offered fossil fuel power plants and industrial sources the opportunity to ask, by email, for an exemption from the Clean Air Act, enabling them to avoid compliance with emission standards that protect Americans.

Leo Banks, Lucero Marquez

How the Trump Administration’s Agenda To Eliminate Environmental Protections and Promote the Fossil Fuel Industry Harms Public Health Fact Sheet
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How the Trump Administration’s Agenda To Eliminate Environmental Protections and Promote the Fossil Fuel Industry Harms Public Health

The Trump administration’s plan to abandon environmental and public health safeguards threatens the health and lives of Americans while lining the pockets of corporate polluters.

Cathleen Kelly, Jasia Smith

The Trump Administration’s Cancellation of Funding for Environmental Protections Endangers Americans’ Health While Draining Their Wallets Fact Sheet
People walk in Central Park amid hazy conditions in New York City.

The Trump Administration’s Cancellation of Funding for Environmental Protections Endangers Americans’ Health While Draining Their Wallets

The Trump administration’s efforts to eliminate environmental protections and funds that reduce pollution in working-class communities threaten public health and increase costs for families.

Cathleen Kelly, Jasia Smith

Congressional Republicans’ Plan To Cut Clean Energy Investments Would Cause Higher Energy Bills and Job Losses Across States Article
Workers carry a solar panel onto a roof in Schaumburg, Illinois.

Congressional Republicans’ Plan To Cut Clean Energy Investments Would Cause Higher Energy Bills and Job Losses Across States

The clean energy supply chain spurred by U.S. investment has created jobs and helped to lower electricity costs; repealing these investments midstream would increase electricity prices for households and businesses in nearly every state.

Shannon Baker-Branstetter, Jamie Friedman

Trump is using tariffs as a blunt-force tool. It won’t work In the News

Trump is using tariffs as a blunt-force tool. It won’t work

In an op-ed published by The Guardian, Mike Williams argues that tariffs can be a necessary tool to level the playing field in steel trade, but they will not incentivize the kind of investment in modern, low-emissions technologies the industry needs to reverse its current decline.

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Highlights from ‘State Efforts To Decarbonize Key Industrial Sectors’ Video

Highlights from ‘State Efforts To Decarbonize Key Industrial Sectors’

The Center for American Progress held a virtual event that explored state policy efforts to decarbonize and detoxify the production of construction materials and discussed lessons learned from policy implementation.

Jamie Friedman, Reema Bzeih, Matthew Gossage

State Efforts To Decarbonize Key Industrial Sectors Past Event

State Efforts To Decarbonize Key Industrial Sectors

Please join the Center for American Progress for a virtual event that will explore state policy efforts to decarbonize and detoxify the production of construction materials, and lessons learned from policy implementation.

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