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Press inquiries If you are a journalist and want to interview someone at Carbon Switch about this report, please email michael@carbonswitch.co. Highlights from this report We analyzed data from a number of sources — including IRS tax returns, ProPublica’s non-profit API, and foundation grant data — in order to understand what types of organizations donors […]

Press inquiries If you are a journalist and want to interview someone at Carbon Switch about this report, please email michael@carbonswitch.co. Introduction House and Senate Democrats are currently working to pass two bills that represent one of the biggest climate policy opportunities in more than a decade. Amidst the debate over what should and shouldn’t

Introduction In August we took a break from writing about climate and energy efficiency solutions like heat pumps, home insulation, hybrid hot water heaters, and LED lighting and published a report that showed that millions of American households would soon lose utility shutoff protections, including millions of recently unemployed people and households under the poverty

Introduction For many Americans it’s easy to take electricity for granted. But as anyone who has experience a long power outage knows, electricity is what makes our modern world go round. This modern miracle is also threatening to change our climate in irreversible ways, which is why as a company we’ve spent so much time

Introduction For the last four years the Trump administration has rolled back environmental regulations and blocked policies that would create jobs, save Americans money, and reduce carbon pollution. Joe Biden and his campaign have promised to do the opposite and put America on a path to net-zero emissions by 2050. Given that buildings contribute roughly