Expert Blogs

Congress should address the real affordability crisis—not waste time turning decade-old clean car standards into a political boogeyman. 

Yet again, the EPA is willfully ignoring health benefits and putting polluters over people.

Cynical “futility argument” is an overlooked part of the agency’s backtracking on the climate crisis.  

Congress must invest in alternatives to gas-powered cars—including electric vehicle infrastructure, transit, biking, and walking—and avoid excessive spending on new roads and highway lanes. 

When gas prices spike, families pay. Electric vehicles offer a cheaper alternative.

New analysis shows mitigating delays in EV charging projects could save nearly $90 billion.

In fact, the agency's own final regulatory analysis confirms that eliminating vehicle greenhouse gas standards would raise costs for drivers and households.

A new white paper from the Center for Impact Finance, NRDC, and Climate Impact Advisors provides detailed insights from the field.

Food waste programs and systems made significant advances around the country—and even the world. It's important to keep up the momentum in 2026.

Companies and trade associations are telling the EPA that it’s going too far.

Nations must build on their NDCs by setting sectoral policies and plans, as well as scaling up investments to realize rapid, deep, equitable, and sustained emissions cuts.

Price transparency is a simple yet powerful way to help clean trucks reach more people.

Smart investments in maintaining roads and public transit that support compact development are a win for affordability, jobs, and climate change.

The agency’s proposal will drive up costs for drivers, make our air more unhealthy, and reduce consumer choice, and put polluters over people.

The initiative could help boost circularity, reduce import dependence, and ensure long-term resource security and resilience of batteries.

California prioritizes 500 new truck charging ports, providing a model for other states. 

Electric and hybrid vehicles have helped grow America’s manufacturing sector and protect U.S. consumers from volatile gasoline prices. And yet, Congress is taking unprecedented action to stop clean vehicles in their tracks. 

A summary of emission reduction benchmarks as G20 countries begin to set their national 2035 climate targets under the Paris Agreement.

Together, electric vehicles and cleaner, more affordable ways to get around can deliver the necessary pollution and emissions reductions. We need the holistic and healthy transportation system solutions that only states can provide.