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While Biden inspires hope, our democracy has let down Black communities for far too long.

Executive actions the new administration can take to deliver economic relief and protect workers and families.

Identifying Communities That Face Environmental Injustice, Using Lessons Learned from State Equity Mapping Programs

Gulf Coast communities face the same environmental and racial injustices they faced during Hurricane Katrina—except now with the overlapping crises of COVID-19, economic collapse, and uprisings for Black Lives. Policy change must undo this injustice.

This platform proposes a set of actions the executive branch can take to equitably address the climate crisis without new legislation, major new appropriations, or other Congressional authority.

The policy platform outlines actions that address environmental justice, just recovery from disasters, equity accounting in climate policy, and energy democracy.

"The nature of environmental problems is bound up in the history of race in America."

“The potential for executive action to jumpstart the transition that we need — to reorient our democracy for democratic engagement and redress historic inequities — is huge.”

The COVID-19 pandemic is an environmental justice crisis—it has exposed inequalities that have persisted in places across the country with decades of pollution.

The future of our planet demands that we recognize our historic inequities and prioritize those who have been most impacted by climate change throughout history.