Equity in the Energy Transition
The United States and the world need to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. RFF research is examining the potential effects of how these efforts will affect the energy system and identifying pathways towards a more equitable and sustainable energy future.
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Report — May 13, 2025
Constraining the Choice Set: Oklahoma’s Limited Approach to Building Economic Resilience
The report presents insights on Oklahoma’s economic resilience strategies, relevant policies, and proposed program enhancements based on a set of interviews with key stakeholders.
RFF Live — Jun 3, 2025
RFF x Canary Media: Conversations on Electricity Affordability
RFF x Canary Media: Conversations on Electricity Affordability
Resources Radio — Mar 25, 2025
Seeding Economic Development in Rural America, with Ann Eisenberg
Ann Eisenberg discusses economic challenges facing rural US communities and the strategies that can promote economic stability in these communities.
Working Paper — Mar 17, 2025
Community Engagement and Participatory Inclusion in Mining: Challenges, Barriers, and Opportunities
This working paper explores how to effectively and fairly engage communities impacted by nearby mining, particularly for minerals vital to the energy transition, and examines the range of consequences that arise when such engagement is not achieved.
Report — May 13, 2025
Constraining the Choice Set: Oklahoma’s Limited Approach to Building Economic Resilience
The report presents insights on Oklahoma’s economic resilience strategies, relevant policies, and proposed program enhancements based on a set of interviews with key stakeholders.
Working Paper — Mar 17, 2025
Community Engagement and Participatory Inclusion in Mining: Challenges, Barriers, and Opportunities
This working paper explores how to effectively and fairly engage communities impacted by nearby mining, particularly for minerals vital to the energy transition, and examines the range of consequences that arise when such engagement is not achieved.
Data Tool — Mar 3, 2025
Skills Matching Explorer
This data visualization tool displays jobs that are a good match for the skills used by workers in fossil fuel industries. It allows policymakers, workforce development professionals, and others to understand which careers could be a "good match."
Working Paper — Mar 3, 2025
Finding the Right Fit: What Jobs Offer a Good Match for Fossil Fuel Workers’ Skills?
This working paper assesses which jobs offer the best match for workers in high-emissions industries and if postsecondary education programs provide the training that workers need to transition to low-emissions technologies.
RFF Live — Jun 3, 2025
RFF x Canary Media: Conversations on Electricity Affordability
RFF x Canary Media: Conversations on Electricity Affordability
Webinar — Mar 5, 2025
Finding the Right Fit: What Jobs Offer a Good Match for Fossil Fuel Workers' Skills?
A webinar exploring best job matches in terms of skills for fossil fuel workers.
Environmental Justice Series — Jun 26, 2024
Improving Electricity Affordability in the Clean Energy Transition
A webinar featuring an expert panel discussing strategies to address issues of electricity affordability in the United States.
Environmental Justice Series — Apr 25, 2024
An Equitable Transition? Energy and Economic Development in Tribal Nations
A webinar examining the challenges and opportunities for economic development in Tribal nations during the energy transition.
Resources Radio — Mar 25, 2025
Seeding Economic Development in Rural America, with Ann Eisenberg
Ann Eisenberg discusses economic challenges facing rural US communities and the strategies that can promote economic stability in these communities.
Common Resources — Mar 11, 2025
Your Questions Answered: Community Engagement and Critical Minerals Mining
Experts on critical minerals discuss questions about how mining companies, governments, and local communities can collaborate to create equitable outcomes for critical mineral mining projects.
Resources Radio — Feb 18, 2025
100 Conversations on Carbon Removal, with Holly Buck
Holly Buck discusses awareness in communities across the United States about approaches to removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and what policymakers can do to foster support for decarbonization at the local level.
Resources Radio — Oct 29, 2024
What Does NIMBYism Cost Society?, with Stephen Jarvis
Stephen Jarvis discusses local opposition to renewable energy projects in the United Kingdom, the cost of this opposition, and approaches to balance local and broader societal interests when developing energy projects.
Media Highlight — Mar 11, 2025
Hechinger Report: “Coal Plants Are Closing. For Some Schools, That Means Lost Revenue and Fewer Jobs for Graduates”
RFF Fellow Daniel Raimi pulls from his research about local effects of the energy transition to discuss the future of community tax bases.
Press Release — Feb 12, 2025
The Resilient Energy Economies Initiative Announces 22 Grants for Research to Support Energy Communities
The Resilient Energy Economies initiative will fund 22 grants.
Media Highlight — Dec 31, 2024
Inside Climate News: “Federal Grant Complexity Stymies the Energy Transition in Wyoming Coal Country, New Report Finds”
This piece discusses in depth a recent RFF report about the energy transition in Wyoming.
Media Highlight — Oct 20, 2024
Wall Street Journal: “They Are Basking in America’s Oil Boom—and Preparing for the Big Bust”
RFF Fellow Daniel Raimi is quoted in this article about the changing economic conditions in Lea County, New Mexico.
