Full Title: On the Road to 100 Percent Renewables: States Can Lead an Equitable Energy Transition
Author(s): Union of Concerned Scientists, GreenRoots, COPAL, Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition
Publisher(s): Union of Concerned Scientists, GreenRoots, COPAL, Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition
Publication Date: April 19, 2022
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Description (excerpt):
On the Road to 100 Percent Renewables explores actions at one critical level: how leadership states can address climate change by reducing heat-trapping emissions in key sectors of the economy as well as by considering the impacts of our energy choices. A collaboration of the Union of Concerned Scientists and local environmental justice groups COPAL (Minnesota), GreenRoots (Massachusetts), and the Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition, with contributions from the national Initiative for Energy Justice, assessed the potential to accelerate the use of renewable energy dramatically through state-level renewable electricity standards (RESs), major drivers of clean energy in recent decades. In addition, the partners worked with Greenlink Analytics, an energy research organization, to assess how RESs most directly affect people’s lives, such as changes in public health, jobs, and energy bills for households.