This Working Paper evaluates and compares EU and US policies aimed at the energy transition and energy justice. It considers the extent to which the European Green Deal (EGD) and the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) attempt to enshrine “energy justice”, as well as the various understandings of the term from the distribution, recognition, and procedure points of view. The paper shows that the EGD is more specific in terms of procedural justice, whereas the IRA includes more explicit clauses pertaining to recognition-based justice. Both highlight elements of distributional justice.