Haven’t had a chance to truly evaluate this dashboard of policies across the country – but it certainly covers 7 policy areas for compare, contrast and consideration.
so for example in NYS, there are 42 enacted policies
You can explore different features
They make a Business As Usual (BAU) graph which happily has a downward trend! But of course is far from our Actual Goals by 2050.
Notably, it appears that transportation sector makes the most progress with the BAU, and buildings have the least change in the current BAU.
I believe these BAU were created by Energy Policy Simulator here: https://rmi.org/energy-policy-simulator/
You can search within NYS, using a keyword such as “environmental justice” and see what policies NYS has for EJ.
And from that, you can see how different states are defining EJ
You can also select states and compare policies on a topic area. So for Working Lands, I chose 3 other states plus NY and it shares this composite info.
Remember, this is crowd sourced. So may not be comprehensive etc. But it certainly helps direct you to other states with model legislation to consider.
To see how Electricity is building out
See Model Rules from Legal Pathways to Deep Decarboinzation, a Dashboard contributor: https://lpdd.org/
See Georgetown Climate Center’s Adaptation Clearinghouse here: https://www.adaptationclearinghouse.org/?swcfpc=1
A great DB for energy policy is https://www.dsireusa.org/
State Policy Opportunity Tracker, with component-based clean energy policies: https://www.spotforcleanenergy.org/
To think about a single policy and what is happening, you can just search a term like Net Metering
you can see no states have policy enacted
then you can look at every state to see status and language
Or see who is funding weatherization campaigns
details by state
And then it links you to other tools like
Low-Income Energy Affordability Data (LEAD) Tool
https://www.energy.gov/scep/slsc/lead-tool
