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Community Benefits Tools and Policy Drivers:

Select mechanisms can help ensure that energy projects deliver meaningful benefits for California communities

This is the third in a series of posts detailing CLEE’s new set of resources on Equitable Climate Infrastructure Investment. Communities and local and state governments are increasingly turning to community benefits tools to support an equitable climate transition, catalyze substantive long-term investments in community priorities, and achieve effective, durable projects. CLEE’s new report, Community Benefits Tools and California …

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