[Updated Dec. 14, 2022] A key step in approving federal energy projects is the permitting process, which often includes an assessment of the environmental impact these projects will have on surrounding communities. This ensures that community health and well-being is at least considered in the process. Senator Joe Manchin’s (D-WV)…

Build Communications Capacity & Narrative Power As the climate crisis accelerates, frontline organizations — those led by the grassroots in communities most impacted by climate change, environmental racism, and other systemic injustices — are ramping up their work to develop solutions and protect their communities, despite being historically and chronically…

Watercolor by Maisie Richards & Lokotah Sanborn, Creative Wildfire project. Dear Climate Funders, We are living through a time of immense and escalating challenges. We are in a decade of crisis, collapse, and transition that holds intertwined volatility, conflict, and unpredictability. Simultaneous to the cruel and unrelenting realities of climate…

Environmental Justice Communities Play Key Role in Derailing the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) While Calling for Community-Led Solutions — Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) commends and stands in solidarity with environmental justice and labor organizations in the northeast region of the United States who advocated against, and for all intents and purposes, have halted the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) for its promotion of false promises that don’t address the…

An Interview with Earth-Bound Building — By: Meron Tebeje “There is a real advantage in putting brainpower together, pooling resources together, time together, and care of children together. It’s not just based on financial incentive but the social and cultural incentive of working together and building for ourselves” — Dom Hosack Earth-Bound Building (EBB) is a…

Six Environmental Justice Lessons from Little Village Environmental Justice Organization By Jessica Xiao Last winter I spoke with Kim Wasserman, executive director of Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO), based in Chicago, Illinois. Kim Wasserman and LVEJO (pronounced “ell-VAY-ho,”) have spent nearly two decades fighting the bad in Chicago’s predominantly…

A Primer by the Climate Justice Alliance — Principles of Mutual Aid If you’ve been following how people are responding to the pandemic, you may have seen the words “mutual aid” show up in the news and across communities. …

Taking Action to Resist Racist Systems of Oppression and to Build a Better World for All — by Jessica Xiao Change the Story Communications Fellow, Climate Justice Alliance “I have bodily pain that can’t be treated. An injury to the tailbone. I get anxious if I sit too long.” “I’m sorry that I’m asking you to tell me about the police violence you experienced,” I said. “It’s…

and why this work is a matter of self-transformation — by Jessica Xiao Change the Story Communications Fellow, Climate Justice Alliance “This is not what you were expecting, was it?” Angela, the executive director, asked me by the snack table, as we took a short break during the staff retreat in Indianapolis, hosted by CJA member the Kheprw Institute (which…