PGW Just Evolve
POWER’s PGW Just Transition campaign integrates four essential climate justice values in seeking community-driven solutions:
- Affordability
- Renewability
- Fair Labor, Health & Safety
POWER works closely with City Council, with the Office of Sustainability and with the Gas Commission in calling for meaningful public participation and for energy policy that supports racial and economic justice on a livable planet.
Our PGW Just Transition leaders are also exploring Housing as a possible intersectional Economic Dignity, Climate Justice and anti-gentrification area of focus. With weatherization, housing efficiency and home repair, utility bills are more affordable so people don’t lose homes to speculators.
The housing work also creates good jobs. We would like to see business models for PGW that put PGW’s labor force in charge of home renovations with attention to making them affordable for all energy users. View Resources
RESOURCES
Download Campaign Documents:
- PGW Just Transition July 2021 POWER Letter to Gas Commission — July 2021
- PGW Testimony for May 11 2021 Gas Commission Town Hall Steve Greenspan
- PGW Testimony for May 11 2021 Russell Hicks
- PGW Testimony for May 11, 2021 Bishop Royster
- PGW Testimony for May 11, 2021 Frances Upshaw
- PGW Testimony for May 11, 2021 JG
- PGW Testimony May 11 2021 Gas Commission Town Hall Mitch Chanin
- PGW Capital Budget Statement April 20, 2022
- How We Won a Gas Ban in New York City
OUR ANALYSIS
POWER is heartbroken, we are outraged: we’re not going to stand for politicians and bosses making money for themselves while burdening all the rest of us with an overheating planet, environmental collapse and extreme weather such as floods, hurricanes, storms, and earthquakes that hurt the least advantaged among us the most.
We face the disastrous juncture of extreme inequality and climate crisis. We are also blessed to be in a moment of dramatic potential for transformation.
Click here for more information on the People’s Energy Plan for PECO.
OUR STRATEGY
POWER lifts up the moral message that solutions have to work for everyone, for the common good, not just for a privileged few, with faith as our unifying language.
We unite people across lines of difference refusing to be divided by race, class or geography. We build power in the streets and in the voting booth through relational organizing — “each one reach one.”
Contact our Climate Justice Team about opportunities for you and your community!
POWER Interfaith is a 501c(3) non-profit organization. We are non-partisan and not aligned explicitly or implicitly with any candidate or party. We do not endorse or support candidates for office. All contributions are tax-deductible.
Join the Climate Justice & Jobs Team
Please check the POWER calendar for monthly Climate Justice and Jobs team meetings or contact Julie Greenberg at jgreenberg@powerinterfaith.org for further information.
When you are interested in joining the work, we’ll arrange some one-on-one sessions with you to learn more about your interests, about how you want to grow and about your vision. We’ll also orient you to the campaigns and help you engage whether it is as a leader, a funder, or a partnering organization. And we are a learning community so there is constant training in organizing, in dismantling racism and in policy possibilities that meet people’s needs.
All are welcome — everyone brings our own life experience and questions to further the work and we need everyone.
You are invited to co-create this justice journey towards a better world.