The Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice

Federal climate investments can be a double-edged sword for Black and Brown communities in the South that are playing host to new clean tech industries. Philanthropy can help make sure they have the resources to negotiate strong community benefit agreements (CBAs) for good jobs and other benefits and protections so they can not just survive but thrive. Hive Fund grantee partners Jobs to Move America, Center for Energy Education, and Power Coalition for Equity and Justice are among the many fantastic organizations working across the South to support communities with CBAs. https://lnkd.in/gNKT6T4k

Federal climate investments can be a double-edged sword for Black and Brown communities in the South that are playing host to new clean tech industries. Philanthropy can help make sure they have the resources to negotiate strong community benefit agreements (CBAs) for good jobs and other benefits and protections so they can not just survive but thrive. Hive Fund grantee partners Jobs to Move America, Center for Energy Education, and Power Coalition for Equity and Justice are among the many fantastic organizations working across the South to support communities with CBAs. https://lnkd.in/gNKT6T4k

Sea walls might not be enough to protect the fossil fuel industry along the Gulf Coast from a climate crisis of its own making, and the consequences of a disaster for surrounding communities and local ecosystems would be devastating. https://lnkd.in/gQXjcMZH

Yesterday's decision in federal court in Louisiana is a major blow for climate progress and for communities along the Gulf Coast, who know more than anyone that the real harms to states are the devastating health and environmental impacts of LNG exports on Black and Brown communities. Frontline leaders will continue fighting this industry's unchecked growth through the banks and insurance companies, legal and regulatory systems, and the court of public opinion. #climatejustice #SummerofHeat https://lnkd.in/gqK--s7k

The Biden Administration's pause on approving certain permits for liquified natural gas exports is now the only thing stopping Venture Global's massively polluting Calcasieu Pass 2 terminal from being completed after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the project yesterday. CP2 would be the largest LNG export terminal in the Gulf, and would emit 20 times more lifetime pollution than the Willow oil project in Alaska. Frontline leaders like The Vessel Project's Roishetta Sibley Ozane, M.S. brought community members from Louisiana to DC to protest FERC's approval, and are taking action on Wall Street today as part of their #SummerofHeat campaign against oil and gas financiers. https://lnkd.in/g3fBeTcB

As Pride month starts wrapping up, we'd like to celebrate the many powerful LGBTQIA + leaders in our grantee partner network who are working to transform the systems of injustice that underpin both the climate crisis and the intensifying attacks on our most basic human rights. Thank you Madison Hall for so thoughtfully lifting up these intersections! https://lnkd.in/gggxJNab

In a big win for communities in Texas oil country, Hive Fund grantee Commission Shift and its partners successfully petitioned the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to investigate Texas' lax oversight of wells used to store wastewater and other byproducts of oil and gas extraction, which have caused earthquakes and toxic blowouts in recent years. The investigation could also imperil Texas' bid to self-regulate the riskier and more complex carbon injection wells needed for the nascent carbon capture and sequestration industry. https://lnkd.in/gr-rA9GJ

Civic engagement groups across the South are facing a wave of AI-fueled disinformation that is making their on-the-ground presence and community relationship-building all the more important. This kind of work, so essential to protecting our democracy and hard-fought climate progress, needs stable and consistent funding that doesn't come and go with election cycles. https://lnkd.in/gREcJjRN

Funding from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s Solar for All program to expand the network of solar hub homes piloted in northeast Houston by Hive Fund grantee partners Solar United Neighbors and West Street Recovery can't come too soon. These neighborhood resilience hubs, equipped with solar + storage and emergency supplies, have already been called into action once this spring after a surprise wind and rainstorm hit the city, and residents are bracing for more as hurricane season gets underway. https://lnkd.in/gG4WHsHv