Legal Planet: “New Tools for Communities Seeking to Leverage Energy Infrastructure Projects for Community Priorities”
An article that provides several resources for information on Community Benefits Plans discusses RFF research.
In the world of Community Benefits Plans (CBPs) (frameworks which were often required by the Biden Department of Energy and which laid out a developer’s intentions to work with communities), a new report by Resources for the Future (RFF) points to several drawbacks inherent in CBPs, including lack of consideration of a project’s harms, lack of transparency and enforceability measures, and a lack of community representation in formulating CBPs. RFF then points to the relevant advantage in these areas of Community Benefits Agreements, or CBAs.
