Climate Equity OVERVIEW

The Clean Air Task Force (CATF) has launched the Climate Equity and the Clean Energy Transition Project to address the historical trend of placing clean energy infrastructure in low-income neighborhoods and communities of color, which often exacerbates existing injustices. The project aims to move from adversarial relationships to cooperative engagement between environmental justice communities, the energy sector, and climate advocates. Key activities include on-site community research, analyzing best practices for clean energy siting to protect public health, and developing a roadmap to modernize federal government programs and budgets to make them more accessible to underserved populations. Additionally, CATF is piloting an online capacity-building tool for community engagement and hosting workshops with environmental justice organizations to redefine decision-making processes and address air quality health impacts. The project focuses on various U.S. rural, tribal, and urban locations, including the Navajo Nation and the Ironbound Community, to produce recommendations for equitable project development and federal program implementation.

• Low-income neighborhoods and communities of color are frequently the sites for proposed clean energy solutions, which often fails to address their core needs and perpetuates existing inequality and injustice.
• CATF's Climate Equity and the Clean Energy Transition Project seeks to replace the current polarized relationship between the energy sector, climate advocates, and underserved communities with a cooperative engagement model to achieve midcentury climate goals.
• The project's current strategic activities include conducting on-site research in 8-10 communities, analyzing U.S. clean energy siting successes and failures to safeguard public health, and creating a roadmap to fix flaws in federal programs and budgets for low-income communities.
• CATF is developing an online capacity-building software tool to help community residents and leaders better access federal clean energy initiatives.

APA

Clean Air Task Force (n.d.). Climate Equity OVERVIEW. https://cdn.catf.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/01160957/CATF_ClimateEquity_Overview.pdf

Chicago

Clean Air Task Force. Climate Equity OVERVIEW. n.d. https://cdn.catf.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/01160957/CATF_ClimateEquity_Overview.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{cleanairtaskforcendclimate, author = {{Clean Air Task Force}}, title = {{Climate Equity OVERVIEW}}, institution = {Clean Air Task Force}, url = {https://cdn.catf.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/01160957/CATF_ClimateEquity_Overview.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }