Data, Reports & Resources

A new report outlines how to accelerate heat pump adoption in California’s residential sector by making heat pumps the obvious choice for households.

Fertilizer overuse is poisoning America’s water, air, and ecosystems.

State and local governments can build resilience with strong policy, good governance, and long-term investment.

This model policy language helps states advance food waste reduction in K–12 public schools.

Policymakers must prioritize proactive local and statewide heat-related spending to keep people safe from deadly heat.

This guide includes a report with recommendations for municipalities to advance food rescue and insights and resources to help cities conduct food rescue landscape assessments of their own.

This report describes several mechanisms that states or local governments could use to fund and finance home buyout programs to reduce risks from natural hazards, such as flooding, wildfire, and severe storms.

Although federal incentives for hydrogen have been cut back, there is a near-term window of opportunity for clean hydrogen development and a need for longer-term policies to build up demand strategically. 

Addressing food waste requires sustained financial support, both public and private. Here are some tips for funding food scrap recycling and food rescue strategies at the city level.

This new report offers recommendations for reducing marine life entanglement risks.

Municipalities can use this model ordinance to help more readily adopt a local PAYT program, with specific legal language that can be used to establish program components. 

This model policy language helps municipalities with adapting zoning codes to make community composting a permissible land use.

This model executive order on municipal leadership on food waste reduction provides options to “lead by example” through policies and programs within and across city government to raise awareness about and reduce food waste.

Municipalities can use this model ordinance to require businesses, universities, and other large organizations to report the amounts of food waste and surplus food they generate. 

This model policy language helps municipalities reduce regulatory barriers to and provide opportunities for community composting.