Lew Daly (he/him) is a Senior Fellow with Just Solutions, focusing on energy and climate justice policies and strategy. He previously served as Deputy Director of Climate Policy at the Roosevelt Institute, and as Director of Policy and Research and Senior Policy Analyst at Demos. Lew was a member of the steering committee of NY Renews and helped develop and advance the state’s groundbreaking Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act in 2019. In 2022-2023, he was a member of New York City’s Offshore Wind Advisory Council, and he was previously a member of the Global Well-Being Lab. His articles and opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, Democracy, Dissent, Grist, and many other publications, and he is co-author (with Gar Alperovitz) of Unjust Deserts: How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance (New Press), among other books. Lew was born and raised in Central New York State, and he has lived with his family in West Harlem, New York City, since 1999. When not working, Lew enjoys running in Riverside Park and writing poetry.
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Pathways For Action: Affording Our Clean Energy Future
Across the country, households are struggling to pay for mounting energy costs. From state to state, the costs of everything from mitigating wildfires to integrating new data centers loads are […]
Taxpayer Costs for Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage: A Fiscal Disaster in the Making
Authors: Lew Daly, Just Solutions Doug Koplow, Earth Track Key Report Findings The 45Q tax credit expansion for Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage, passed as part of the Inflation Reduction […]
Where EPA Falls Short, States Lead the Way on Addressing Pollution Burden in Disadvantaged Communities
PM2.5 is considered the most dangerous common air pollutant for health and is associated with as many as 200,000 excess deaths annually in the United States, many at exposure levels below previous EPA standards.
