Opponents of the Build Back Better proposal have repeatedly amplified the myth that the financial incentives for clean energy will burden Americans with higher electricity costs. But a new RMI analysis shows the opposite to be true. Our new model shows that the clean energy tax credits and low-cost financing…

By Courtney Bourgoin As seen in Earth Island Journal, April 2020 Magaly Santos and I both unlatch our charm necklaces and gently set them in a circle of other keepsakes offered by 21 women from around the country. For the opening ceremony of a four-day immersive learning experience, which wrapped a four-month leadership…

As seen in the Salt Lake Tribune, July 13, 2021 From snow-capped mountains to the red rocks of our state, Utahns recognize there are few places in the world that offer the chance to experience such awe-inspiring geography. Any Utahn would say they are proud of our public lands and…

As seen in Business Insider, April 22, 2021 Courtney Bourgoin, 26, press secretary for the Sierra Club’s Our Wild America campaign Courtney Bourgoin of the Sierra Club. Courtney Bourgoin Bourgoin, who is based in Chicago, oversees communications for one of the 128-year-old organization’s public lands and waters initiative. She got…

By Kayley Shoup, as seen in The Progressive The climate impacts of fossil fuel extraction are reaching a point of irreversibility. I grew up in Carlsbad, New Mexico, a small town in the Permian Basin. It remains a lovely place, but in its current state, it is not the town I once knew. While oil and gas have always been a part of…

When I was a senior in high school, I had an asthma attack in the middle of class. Unaware of what was happening, I panicked for my life. Luckily, I was passed an inhaler by a classmate, but the fear of that moment and shock to my otherwise healthy life…

By Bonnie Rice, As published in the Denver Post, January 2, 2021 Over the past decades living in the Rockies region, I have witnessed unprecedented changes happening in the American West. More people are moving to once remote areas, and visitorship to the wild places and parks out here is…

Under the Trump administration, we have seen some of the most devastating impacts of the push to build a wall on the US-Mexico borderlands. …

The year of 2020 has brought with it an unprecedented number of challenges — struggles so big that we know Band-Aid solutions cannot provide the systemic change we truly need. …