In the United States, renewable energy technology, like solar cells, is still mostly utilized by white populations when data show that communities of color are impacted most negatively by fossil fuel pollution and climate change. Read more >
Marcia Cassidy Communications
Renewable Energy Technology is Not Fully Helping Communities That Need it Most
Carolyn E. Ramirez, Chemical Engineering Ph.D. Candidate, Northwestern University, UCS Science Network, UCS
February 25, 2021 11:10 AM EDT
NREL
Climate Justice and the Debate about Community Solar on Farmland
Kristal Hansley, Founder and CEO of WeSolar and Doug Boucher, former Director of Climate Research
at the Union of Concerned Scientists, UCS Science Network, UCS
October 9, 2020 10:07 AM EDT
Changes in agricultural zoning are a part of government that generally get very little attention, and are seldom seen as involving issues of racism and climate justice. But increasingly, states and counties across the country are seeing that questions of local land use and how we can prevent dangerous climate change are also matters of environmental justice.
