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Not Cool: How the EPA’s Refrigerant Rollback Will Raise Your Grocery and AC Costs

July 20, 2026 Expert BlogUnited StatesDavid Doniger, Dr. Richie Kaur, Jeremy Arling

NRDC and industry are suing over cost-raising delays in moving away from HFC super pollutants in supermarkets and cold storage warehouses.

A protester holds up a sign at a Stand up For Science rally held at Washington Square Park in Manhattan, New York City, on March 7, 2025.

Political Control of Research Funding Threatens Sound Science

June 29, 2026 Expert BlogUnited States

Decades of federal research funding have led to breakthroughs in medicine, technology, and environmental science. A new OMB proposal aims to derail all of this through political interference.

Brad Smith, president of Microsoft Corporation, speaks during a climate initiative event at the Microsoft Corp. campus in Redmond, Washington, on January 16, 2020.

Microsoft unveiled plans to invest $1 billion to back companies and organizations working on technologies to remove or reduce carbon from the earth's atmosphere, saying efforts to merely emit less carbon aren't enough to prevent catastrophic climate change.

The Carbon Removal Market Can Work—If We Build It Right

May 28, 2026 Expert BlogUnited StatesSam F. Savitz, Dr. Jennifer DiStefano

The CDR industry’s reliance on Microsoft shows the limits of voluntary climate action—and the need for government to do its part. It’s time to take the trash out of our atmosphere.