Uplifting Equitable Solutions
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…
Just Solutions Podcast Launches Season 3 on December 11th, 2025
Join us for Season 3 of the Just Solutions Podcast! This season we are bringing you relevant and personable conversations with guests to make sense of what is going on in and around the US, in particular the impacts of the federal attacks and rollbacks, and what people are doing to defend and advance justice. …
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…
Community Solar: A Critical Tool for Energy Justice
Community solar projects can play a critical role in a just and equitable transition to cleaner electricity by allowing community members who could otherwise not install solar to participate in the renewable energy transition. Installing community solar has many benefits for community members as well as the grid. It can make a community’s energy system…
Webinar: Understanding the Environmental Justice Impacts of Transmission Buildout
Expanding the electric grid has real and lasting impacts on communities, shaping everything from affordability and public health to electricity reliability, land use, and climate outcomes. Yet for many, transmission planning remains complex and unfamiliar. This webinar examines the equity and justice implications of transmission buildout. Leading experts break down what transmission is, how projects…
President Carter and the Policy and Politics of Energy Sufficiency
The passing of President Jimmy Carter has brought about a renewed interest in 1970’s energy issues, like lines at gas stations, solar panels on the White House, and putting on a cardigan. Some look back with nostalgia at Carter as a strong voice for energy conservation with unique moral clarity. Others see him as politically naïve…
Left in the Dark; Utility Disconnections in the United States
When households are unable to pay for their energy bills in full or on time, utility providers often shut off their service. By the end of 2024, utility shut-offs are projected to increase by 300,000 households, to 3.5 million total. When a household is disconnected from its electric utility service, there are severe consequences, such…
Social Housing as an Avenue for Environmental Justice
Background and Past Work As the climate crisis and housing crisis continue to exacerbate one another, solutions that adequately and equitably address both issues are more important than ever. The Just Solutions policy team has analyzed solutions at the intersection of climate justice and housing in the past, and found that many of them are…
Utility Justice: Why it Matters and Resources for Advocates
More than 30 million households in the United States are energy insecure, meaning that they are unable to adequately meet household energy needs. High energy costs as a fraction of household income — called energy burden — is a major stressor on the finances of low-income households. In the U.S., around 3,000 electric utility companies…
Climate Resilience and the Failure of the Healthcare Market
There has been growing attention on the failure of key markets to keep pace with climate change, including the housing, insurance, and utilities markets, and the dire consequences for communities across the country. The healthcare market, however, has received less attention. While significant progress has been made over the past two decades in expanding healthcare…
