Energy Affordability
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…
As Energy Costs Spike, Just Solutions Releases Comprehensive Analysis of Pathways to Affordability
By Elena Krieger, PhD. — States face an urgent need to address energy costs—and to do so in a lasting way that ensures long-term bill savings and continues to accelerate the transition to a clean energy future. Across the country, households are struggling to pay for mounting energy bills. Georgia Power, for example, increased electricity…
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 driving up utility bills. States now face an urgent need to address energy costs—and to do so in a lasting way that ensures long-term bill…
The high economic, social, and health costs of unaffordable energy
By Arjun Makhijani, PhD – Unaffordable energy bills impact all of society—including those who can afford to regularly pay their own bills. The direct impacts of unaffordable energy for families experiencing economic stress include ill-health, hunger, utility shutoffs and even evictions because of their inability to pay all the monthly bills. But the indirect impacts…
Polluter Pays: A Pathway to Affordability and Financing Climate Justice
By Jennifer Moon & Brandon Dawson – States and localities are leading the way towards holding fossil fuel interests accountable for the climate damage they cause. They are sending a message that communities will not bear the costs for the harm caused by others. Whether it’s through legislation related to environmental damage from past climate…
New Analysis: Republican Spending Bill Guts Historic Climate Investments and Protections, Compounding Harm to Environmental Justice and Frontline Communities
A new analysis by Just Solutions reveals how the recently passed federal reconciliation bill changes policy, how much funding it rescinds for climate and environmental justice programs, and the drastic impacts on environmental protection and climate investments for environmental justice and frontline communities across the US. On our nation’s Independence Day, President Donald Trump celebrated…
Adding Fuel to the Fire: How the Republican Spending Bill Guts Climate and Environmental Justice Programs and Compounds Harm to Communities Across the US
On July 4, 2025, President Donald Trump signed into law H.R. 1, also known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”: the massive spending bill that is expected to be the landmark legislative accomplishment of the first year of the President’s second term. The climate, environmental, and energy provisions of H.R. 1 are a concerted…
Heating Up: Higher Utility Bills and Fewer Options for Assistance for Washington & Oregon Customers
It is summer and energy bills are rising along with temperatures, increasing many people’s concerns about keeping the lights—and air conditioning—on. Despite comparatively low electricity rates in the Pacific Northwest fueled by hydroelectric sources, energy costs are rising and the associated financial burden on low-income households is quite high in Oregon and Washington. Meanwhile, federal…
Affording Our Energy Future: States Lead the Way
Just Solutions Launches New National Effort to Support Our State Partners August 5, 2025 – For tens of millions of households, the energy bill isn’t just another expense: it determines if the lights stay on or the fridge keeps medicine cold. And in communities across the country, the squeeze is getting tighter. Utility rates have…
