Clean Energy

JMF has been promoting a national transition to clean energy for over twenty years, but for the last decade, we have focused exclusively on making the New England region a clean energy leader and model for the rest of the country.

The world’s scientists agree: the climate is changing and humankind is largely responsible. Global temperature increases over the last century resulting from the use of fossil fuels have already begun to impact the ecosystems that support life on Earth. We’ve seen increasingly severe droughts in some places, intense floods in others and rising sea levels along our coasts, all of which threaten the communities in which we live and the environments that support us.

Our goals are to reduce New England’s greenhouse gas emissions 20% by 2022, put the region on a trajectory to reduce emissions 80% by 2050, and in so doing, build a clean energy economy that makes New England a leader on climate solutions.

This will require a complete reimagining of the way our region produces and uses energy. To achieve these goals JMF is supporting efforts to:

Close New England’s remaining coal-fired power plants and minimize the expansion of other fossil fuels such as natural gas to ensure they are used as a complement to renewable energy;
Secure state and regional policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and dramatically increasing investments in energy efficiency and clean energy;
Modernize the electric power system to incentivize clean energy and facilitate consumer choice;
Accelerate large-scale adoption of electric vehicles and the infrastructure to support them; and
Support regional efforts to establish a price on carbon in the power and transportation sectors in order to secure revenue for clean energy investments and build momentum toward a federal carbon pricing policy.

Recent Clean Energy Grant Awards

Date	Description	Program Area	Focus	Amount
12/2021	Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts Education Fund To build and strengthen Neighbor to Neighbor’s base of low-income and people of color to make progress on racial, economic, and climate justice.	Clean Energy		$50,000
12/2021	GreenRoots To implement collective action, community organizing, and resident empowerment to achieve environmental and climate justice and improved public health in Chelsea and East Boston.	Clean Energy		$50,000
12/2021	Alternatives for Community and Environment To build the movement for environmental justice by linking lawyers, scientists, community organizers, and others with community, faith, and municipal leaders in environmental justice communities to help win environmental and climate justice campaigns.	Clean Energy		$50,000
12/2021	Browning the Green Space To support a pilot program to identify community energy needs in environmental justice communities within “gateway cities” in Massachusetts, connect minority-led businesses to investors, provide data about new markets, and build pipelines of young people to join the clean energy field.	Clean Energy		$50,000
12/2021	Center for Latino Progress To build the capacity of grassroots organizations in Connecticut to tackle air pollution and carbon emissions from the transportation sector, and support transition to safe, environmentally sustainable, equitable, and reliable modes of transportation.	Clean Energy	Transportation	$25,000
12/2021	Tri-State Transportation Campaign To build a strong advocacy campaign to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Connecticut, improve mobility and health in communities, and address inequities in transportation planning.	Clean Energy		$25,000
12/2021	Vermont Energy Investment Corporation To accelerate deployment of plug-in electric vehicles and electric transportation infrastructure in Vermont.	Clean Energy	Transportation	$25,000
12/2021	Ceres To deploy business and investor leaders in New England to advance and defend state and regional climate and clean transportation policies.	Clean Energy		$50,000
12/2021	Vermont Public Interest and Research Education Fund To advance bold, equitable climate solutions and ensure that all Vermonters are part of the transition to cleaner, more affordable energy future.	Clean Energy		$25,000
12/2021	Connecticut Fund for the Environment/Save the Sound To ensure that Connecticut sets and achieves strong climate and clean energy goals, while fighting for environmental equity.	Clean Energy		$75,000

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