NRDC Wraps Up the 2022 Washington State Legislative Session
Despite ongoing challenges from the Covid-19 pandemic and remote legislative operations, we concluded Washington State’s short legislative session with notabl...
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Diablo Canyon Redux: Joint Letter to CA Governor Misfires
A letter to Governor Newsom signed by prominent academics and others is urging further extension of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant’s operating life, sh...
Oregon Looks to “Reach” Code for Energy, Carbon Savings
Senate Bill 1518, to be considered during Oregon’s “short” February 2022 legislative session, is a critical pushback against the embedded lowest common de...
A Discredited Myth About Energy Efficiency
Do energy efficiency gains inevitably result in increased energy use? New Yorker columnist David Owen has long thought so, and his most recent broadside implaus...
Western Climate Initiative: OR & WA Add Caps to CA's AB32
In 2021, fifteen years after California made climate history by becoming the first US state to adopt an economy-wide carbon emissions cap, Oregon and Washington...
Should CA Seek Another Life Extension for Diablo Canyon?
In a recent op-ed calling for the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant’s operating license to be extended past 2025, Steven Chu and Ernest Moniz acknowledge that...