And Now the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis Weighs In

And I do mean WEIGHS in (get it? nudge, nudge, wink, wink) with the release of its 538-page majority staff report plan to for "a Clean Energy Economy and a Healthy, Resilient and Just America." My colleague, Senior Fellow for Energy Policy Richard Corrigan and our Brown University intern Cotter McCarthy are already hard at work wading into and through this plan and seeking to understand how its major components would likely impact the older industrial states of the Frostbelt. Stay tuned for their findings in that regard.

And of course, feel free to wade into this plan yourself: https://climatecrisis.house.gov/sites/climatecrisis.house.gov/files/Climate%20Crisis%20Action%20Plan.pdf

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In the meantime, by way of former Institute Executive Director Dr. Richard Munson, we hear encouraging reports from Illinois about that state's legislative consideration of an ambitious "Clean Energy Jobs Act" which aims to put Illinois on the path to achieving a carbon-free power sector by 2030 and having 100% renewable energy by 2050. In this particular laboratory of democracy, the legislation has been crafted through a consensus-building process by the Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition, “CJC" (see: https://ilcleanjobs.org/ ).