Center for Progressive Reform

Historic Climate Package Now Law

President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act. Historic climate progress is underway, but more work remains.

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The Clean Water Act and the Courts

The Supreme Court will soon reexamine the reach of the Clean Water Act. Crucial protections hang in the balance.

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Comments on California Climate Plan

California's climate plan update needs to better incorporate environmental justice and be more ambitious.

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Blue Tent: Center for Progressive Reform a "high priority" for donors

In a 2022 brief, Blue Tent recommends CPR, considers financial support a "high priority" for donors.

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Who We Are

The Center for Progressive Reform harnesses the power of law and public policy
to create a responsive government, a healthy environment, and a just society.

Regulatory Policy

Opponents of sensible safeguards for health, safety, and the environment are working to undermine the regulatory system. CPR fights back. Learn more.

Consumer Protection

Strong standards and vigorous enforcement are critical to keeping our food, cars, drugs, and consumer products safe. Learn about CPR's work.

Workers' Rights

Workers have the right to a safe and healthful workplace and a fair wage. Strong laws and vigorous enforcement are essential. Learn about our work.

Environment & Energy

The planet faces unprecedented environmental challenges: climate change, air and water pollution, toxic wastes and more. Learn about CPR's work.

Forced arbitration

Marginalized communities bear unjust burden

Forced arbitration in employment, consumer contracts, and more disproportionately harms women, people of color, and older individuals. Read our report.

Tanks for Nothing

Chemical storage tanks threaten communities

Largely unregulated, aboveground tanks storing hazardous chemicals pose significant dangers. Climate change increases these risks. Read our report.

Carbon capture

It's not a solution to climate change

The fossil fuel industry and its allies tout the supposed wonders of carbon capture and storage. But it's a false promise, in Louisiana and beyond. Read our policy brief.

Chemical Disasters

Climate change increases risks

Industrial facility safety reforms are essential to protecting communities, advancing environmental justice, and preventing climate-driven chemical disasters. Read our policy brief.

CPR Webinars

Carbon capture, forced arbitration, toxic chemical threats, climate, more

Check out CPR's recent webinars, featuring leading experts on a range of topics.

Toxic Floodwaters

Public health threats

Toxic chemicals in the way of likely floodwaters are a climate-driven disaster waiting to happen. Read our paper.

OSHA's Next 50 Years

Workers need a private right of action

OSHA's failure to protect workers during the pandemic is further evidence that Congress should legislate a private right of action to help enforce safety standards.

Climate Justice

State courts and the fight for equity

Litigation in state courts is an emerging tool in the fight to hold polluters accountable for their massive contributions to climate change.

Regulation as Social Justice

A crowdsourced blueprint for building a progressive regulatory system

Read James Goodwin's white paper on how we can build a regulatory system that works for everyone, including the most vulnerable.

Workers' Rights

Bringing scofflaw employers to justice

CPR's one-of-a-kind database tracks prosecutions of employers who imperil workers by ignoring safety standards.

In Focus

Connect the Dots!

Listen to the newest episode of Rob Verchick's 'Connect the Dots' Podcast, the latest in a series focusing on climate justice.

CPR reports and white papers

From regulatory policy to climate change, cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay to protecting workers' rights, protecting the environment to preserving citizens' access to the courts ... check out all reports and white papers.

CPR Op-Eds

CPR Member Scholars and staff are regular contributors to the nation's op-ed pages. Read the latest.