Domestic Climate
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.
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.
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Featured Work
Budget Reconciliation Is the Key to Stopping Climate Change
Implementing Biden’s Justice40 Commitment To Combat Environmental Racism
Creating a Domestic U.S. Supply Chain for Clean Energy Technology
Featured Experts
Cathleen
Kelly
Senior Fellow
Christy
Goldfuss
Senior Vice President, Energy and Environment Policy
Elise
Gout
Senior Policy Analyst
Mike
Williams
Senior Fellow
Mikyla
Reta
Senior Policy Analyst
Sam
Ricketts
Senior Fellow
Shannon
Baker-Branstetter
Director, Domestic Climate and Energy Policy
Trevor
Higgins
Vice President, Climate Policy
Latest
These Top 5 Oil Companies Just Raked In $35 Billion While Americans Pay More at the Pump
While families on tight budgets struggle to pay the sky-high price of gas, these five oil companies more than tripled their profits in the first quarter of 2022.
Fight for Our Future: Activists Demand Action on Climate and Justice
On Saturday, April 23, activists took to the streets of Washington, D.C., to demand that our leaders finally deliver on climate, care, jobs, and justice.
Uplifting Women in the Clean Energy Economy
Increasing women’s participation in the clean energy economy will further America’s progress on climate action and improve women's economic security.
Implementing Ocean Climate Solutions and Marine Protected Areas Require U.S. Leadership at the Our Ocean Conference
The seventh Our Ocean conference takes place this week in Palau, and the United States can lead global commitments on protecting nature that have stalled since the onset of the pandemic.
5 Reasons Why the United States Can’t Drill Its Way to Energy Independence
The solution to high energy prices is a swift and urgent transition to clean energy—not further reliance on dirty fuels controlled by dictators and profiteering oil corporations.
The Biden Administration’s Easiest Climate Win Is Waiting in the Arctic
The ConocoPhillips Willow oil project threatens to erase the climate benefits of renewables on public lands and waters.
Clean Energy Will Cut Costs for Families Across the Country
The clean energy investments in President Biden’s economic plan spell cost savings for families across the country on household electric, heating, and gasoline bills in the decade to come.
A Clean Power Grid Is a Reliable Power Grid
Decarbonizing the power sector through targeted clean energy investments will help to ensure the reliability of the U.S. electricity grid for years to come.
Build Back American
The investment plan outlined in President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda would help to revitalize domestic manufacturing and ensure that clean energy supply chains are not dependent on China.
State Budgets Tied to Fossil Fuels Are Slowing the Energy Transition and Leaving Workers and Communities Behind
Oil and gas lobbyists have spent decades working to entrench dependence on fossil fuels. Solutions require a new model that builds wealth and empowers rural communities.