Analysis of Innovative Environmental & Climate Policy Achievements 2025

Frontline communities kept climate progress in 2025 through rollbacks of climate justice funding and legislations. In partnership with Just Solutions, The Solutions Project’s (TSP) published a new report that assessed nine illustrative environmental and climate achievements led by or involving TSP grantees, spanning local and state victories across the country, including in states with challenging political environments.

Together, these policies have the potential to benefit more than 36 million people across the country, unlock over $350 million annually in public investments, and block $1.5 billion in planned polluter investments.

These achievements were the result of multi-year community organizing campaigns led by frontline groups, most of which are Black, Indigenous, and Communities of Color (BIPOC), reflecting the fact that these communities are disproportionately impacted by climate change. These wins promise significant community, public health, and climate benefits for environmental justice communities.

Major policies highlighted in the report include:

• The first community-driven Climate Justice Plan in the nation, adopted in Harris County, Texas, addresses the climate resilience needs of the entire community and will benefit 4.8 million residents, 73% of whom are BIPOC.
• A heat protection agreement in Miami, Florida serves as a model for securing worker protections through negotiated community benefit agreements for housing and public works projects, and unlocks an estimated $9.5 billion over the next century — an average of $95 million annually — through a revenue-sharing agreement with Miami-Dade County.
• Community mobilization in Louisiana defeated Mitsubishi Chemical America’s plans to build the world’s largest methyl methacrylate (MMA) plant, blocking $1 billion in polluter investment and preventing more than 780,000 tons of CO2 emissions annually.

While the wins highlighted in the report are significant, many are now under political threat from the current administration. Sustained philanthropic support is critical to defend these wins, scale proven models that work, and advance new community-driven policies that ensure a Just Transition.