Angel Bautista
Five Years of Just Solutions: Positioned to Meet the Challenges We Are Facing
This month marks our 5th anniversary. What a roller coaster it has been! Just Solutions began amid a once-in-a-generation pandemic, escalating climate impacts, and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement. I, along with our board, believing in the power of communities and self-determination, began working to fill a gap in the movement’s infrastructure…
More Stress on Household Bills: Electricity Prices Surged in 2025
The data are in: nationwide, household electricity prices rose nearly twice as fast as inflation last year. Across the United States, average residential electricity prices increased 5% between 2024 and 2025, according to data just released from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The inflation rate over the same period was 2.7%. Residential electricity prices outpaced…
Stand with Minnesota – Our Freedom Depends On It
One year into President Trump’s second term, there is a breathtaking attack on fundamental civil liberties underway in Minnesota. The public outcry over the killings of two protestors by immigration agents has forced a reckoning about the strategy and tactics being used in Trump’s mass deportation program. An organized grassroots protest movement has articulated a…
Just Solutions to the Energy Affordability Crisis: New Library + Webinar
Across the US, communities are facing fast-moving energy affordability crises while navigating an increasingly complex policy landscape. Yet many solutions already exist, developed through the organizing, advocacy, and ingenuity of communities across the country. Now more than ever, it is critical to leverage what we know works to protect and improve the lives of the…
Double Trouble: Disruptions to Federal Food Assistance Program (SNAP) and Low Income Heating and Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Leave Families and Children in Crisis as Winter Approaches
An analysis of which states will be hardest hit and the financial impact As the federal shutdown continues into its second month, households across the country are facing a looming crisis with uncertain funding for food and heating assistance—just as the weather is turning cold. Under pressure from the courts, the Administration has agreed to…
New Report: FEMA Rollback Threatens to Overwhelm States
Read our report on the extreme variability in how a state may face limited climate impacts one year and billions of dollars in damage the next—and how the scale of this impact compares to individual state expenditures and their ability to respond. Climate disasters are growing in strength and frequency across the United States, from…
Advancing Solutions: A statement on recent protests in LA for immigrant rights
Just Solutions, as our name implies, is grounded in a fundamental belief that the best solutions come from communities because we know what is best for ourselves. In a democracy, our responsibility is to debate and discuss differences of opinion, with constitutional rights to freedom of speech and peaceful assembly. These are the cornerstones of…
The Crucial Role of State Climate Justice Advocates in Challenging Times
As the federal government moves in a direction that threatens to undo recent historic investments as well as decades of progress on climate policy, particularly for Frontline communities disproportionately impacted by climate change, the power of state action is even more vital. While we watch with anger and trepidation the rapid and aggressive dismantling, state…
Understanding the Limits and Meaning of Trump’s Inaugural Executive Orders
On the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump kicked off his ongoing blitz of signing Executive Orders (EOs) and other directives addressing issues ranging from gender to renaming the Gulf of Mexico. These actions are marked by their colorful, hyper-partisan language and apparently sweeping breadth, in addition to their vagueness, sloppy drafting,…
New Report: Defending and Advancing Climate Justice Policies
In early 2024 Just Solutions convened nearly 50 national and state organizations together to research, compile and publish, Defending and Advancing Climate Justice Policies, a comprehensive analysis of how we can collectively advance and defend climate justice in the face of various outcomes of the federal elections. Well, here we are. Now we face many…
