By Malaika Jabali ·Updated October 30, 2023
The Black woman behind the Green New Deal, policy expert Rhiana Gunn-Wright, is not holding back in her criticism of the federal government’s clean energy policy. After the hottest summer ever on record, there’s no time to waste on implementing a transition away from fossil fuels, and Gunn-Wright and other climate change experts and activists have been adamant that the transition is economically