Will a Greener World Be Fairer, Too?

The impact of climate legislation stretches well beyond the environment. Climate policy will significantly impact jobs, energy prices, entrepreneurial opportunities, and more.

As a result, a climate bill must do more than give new national priority to solving the climate crisis. It must also renew and maintain some of the most important — and hard-won — national priorities of the previous centuries: equal opportunity and equal protection.

Cue the Climate Equity Alliance.

This new coalition has come together to ensure that upcoming federal climate legislation fights global warming effectively while protecting low- and moderate-income consumers from energy-related price increases and expanding economic opportunity whenever possible.

More than two dozen groups from the research, advocacy, faith-based, labor and civil rights communities have already joined the Climate Equity Alliance. They include Green For All, the NAACP, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the Center for American Progress, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Oxfam, and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.