Full brief at our website: climateandcommunity.org/research/hea...

Read our latest substack explaining how to rethink debt in the movement for green public education facilities here: climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com/p/healthy-sc...

And in the week's Q&A, @jael.bsky.social chats with @cplusc.bsky.social's @jbozuwa.bsky.social on a proposal publicly owned wind power:

Read the full report here: climateandcommunity.org/research/off...

Now is the time to prepare a big offshore wind play. Trump is nationalizing parts of companies like Intel & US Steel. Let’s use industrial policy for good– advancing OSW for low cost energy, good jobs, & decarbonization. Read the full report: climateandcommunity.org/research/off...

A federal Offshore Wind Authority can use public sector power to bring online a massive amount of durable & affordable electricity. With low cost finance and coordination capacity, the government can help launch OSW over key structural hurdles.

Even before the Trump admin, the offshore wind industry struggled with high interest rates & uncoordinated supply chains. We need at least 270 GW of OSW to decarbonize by 2050, but right now the current pipeline only gets us to 50 GW.

Climate change is already battering grids across the US, and we will need even more investment to decarbonize and create climate resilient energy infrastructure. Read the full report here: climateandcommunity.org/research/ove...

To make necessary grid investments in a climate-changed future and protect working people in a time of mass benefits and government shutdown, we recommend concrete policies to stop the bad, build the new, and change the rules:

Those experiments failed: not only did they fail to increase competition, they did not stabilize costs, ensure reliability, or slow upward wealth redistribution.

Beginning in the 60s, crises of fuel supply, engineering challenges, and business models led to increased pressure for electricity market reform. What followed was decades of restructuring and market liberalization.

Rate design principles orient around cost-of-service, where revenues equal cost of providing electricity, and align profit incentives with private monopolies to ensure their services match the public interest.

Read the full brief, "Protection or Profit? Transformative Solutions to the Home Insurance Crisis" here: climateandcommunity.org/research/pro...

We also recommend that:
--States redesign existing insurers of last resort
--Federal gov redesign National Flood Insurance Program into a National Disaster Insurance Program.
--Federal gov set up federal reinsurance for Housing Resilience Agencies and redesigned FAIR Plans.

Dedicated funding sources and premium income would reduce the need for the HRAs to rely on risky and pricy products like catastrophe bonds. We can equitably spread the costs and benefits of a more stable insurance system (and tackle the federal reduction of disaster assistance).