Protecting the Climate: How to Get America Back on Track
The United States can offer new hope for getting the world back on track to limit the damage from climate change. There is much that it can achieve on the natio...
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The latest opinion and analysis from NRDC’s science, legal, and policy experts.
A Ladder of Ambition for Zero Net Energy (ZNE) Buildings
Zero Net Energy embraces several related but distinct goals. This blog identifies four levels of increasing ambition, like rungs on a ladder and suggests that S...
We Can Transform U.S. Industry
In its detailed and ambitious report, the Select Committee offers dozens of solutions and policy recommendations. If implemented, these recommendations would me...
COVID-19 and Climate Change: Creating the Political Will
The global response to the COVID-19 crisis has shown that strong policy actions that seemed infeasible months ago were in fact implemented across the globe to a...
Industrial Efficiency Can Restore Jobs and Competitiveness
Programs to increase the efficiency of energy use in industry can speed the economic recovery from COVID-19 while continuing to cut climate pollution emissions....
Energy Efficiency: The Extreme-Weather-Resilient Resource
There’s one energy resources that is 100 percent reliable and performs better when the weather turns bitter: energy efficiency. The more extreme the weather...