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How Unfamiliar Fish Are Helping Mainers Fight Food Insecurity

Kea Krause

March 28, 2024 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: United States, Maine

The Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association launched a program to support local fishing businesses and address food insecurity during the pandemic that continues to do so today. The nonprofit buys fish at a more than fair price from local businesses and donates them to food banks and public school food programs.

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Fewer Illinois residents using payday lenders after state capped interest rates

Amy Yee

March 15, 2024 |

Chicago Sun-Times |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

The Predatory Loan Prevention Act caps loan interest rates at 36%, including all fees. Before the Act passed, rates were extremely high, including 297% for payday loans and 178% for auto-title loans. The Illinois Legislative Black Caucus pushed for the Act to pass in an effort to close the racial wealth gap and address socioeconomic disparities, as these high-interest rates historically affected minority groups.

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Empowering Black Farmers and Landowners With Solar Energy

Daniel Walton

February 14, 2024 |

Civil Eats |

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Response Location: United States, Oxford, North Carolina

The renewable energy company EnerWealth Solutions is helping Black farmers in the Carolinas install solar panels among their crops so they can benefit financially from the solar boom with a consistent stream of income.

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An overlooked climate solution unfolds in Memphis' energy challenges

Ashli Blow

January 23, 2024 |

Tennessee Lookout |

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Response Location: United States, Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis Gas Light and Water’s weatherization program is helping city residents prepare their homes for increasingly intense storms in ways that also reduce their energy use from fossil-fuel-derived sources and their utility bills. Contractors may install a new air conditioner or repair walls, but the resident is never charged for the services because ratepayers round up their bills to cover the cost.

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Virginia districts roll on with electric school buses despite lack of state funding

Elizabeth McGowan

January 11, 2024 |

Energy News Network |

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Response Location: United States, Virginia

Schools in Virginia are switching from diesel to electric buses to reduce their emissions and impact on local air quality. With no access to state funding, the schools are buying buses outright, renting them, and partnering with nonprofit organizations that assist them in finding funding.

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Washington's cap on carbon is raising billions for climate action. Can it survive the backlash?

Kate Yoder

January 08, 2024 |

Grist |

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Response Location: United States, Washington

Washington State’s Climate Commitment Act set a limit on greenhouse gas emissions and created an emissions market to incentivize emission reductions while generating money for climate change mitigation. Carbon emission allowances are auctioned off to businesses, and set percentages of the income are designated for projects like electrifying public transit.

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Do carbon credits really help communities that keep forests standing?

John C. Cannon

January 05, 2024 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Cambodia, Sen Monorom

Despite some support for the forest conservation strategy REDD+, which uses carbon credits to incentivize reducing emissions, many Indigenous organizations and communities say the strategy and general carbon market need improvement. They say the programs don’t lead to the purported benefits and must be more inclusive of those proactively protecting forests and local communities, among other things.

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In Juneau, Alaska, a carbon offset project that's actually working

Taylor Kate Brown

January 04, 2024 |

Grist |

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Response Location: United States, Juneau, Alaska

To mitigate the carbon dioxide emissions generated by tourism, the community in Juneau, Alaska, created the Alaska Carbon Reduction Fund as a type of carbon offset program. Tourists pay an emissions fee to the fund when doing certain excursions, and that money is used to install heat pumps for residents who earn less than 80 percent of the median income.

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What if debt was written off to protect climate and nature?

India Bourke

December 13, 2023 |

BBC |

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Response Location: Ecuador

Severely indebted countries are using debt-for-climate swaps to shrink their debt while helping the environment. To make these swaps possible, creditors sell back their portion of the debt at a reduced rate to alleviate the risk of the country defaulting. Then, new loans are issued at a cheaper rate in exchange for the country committing to use some of the money it saves becuase of the lower rate on projects that benefit the climate.

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One year old, US climate law is already turbocharging clean energy technology

Isabella O'Malley Michael Phillis

July 23, 2023 |

Associated Press |

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Response Location: United States

In an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the United States’ Inflation Reduction Act uses tax credits to encourage the adaptation of and investment in renewable energy across the country.

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