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A woman shopping for frozen fruit in a Walmart store in Coquitlam, Canada.

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

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

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

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.
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Pollinators Notch Big Wins in Minnesota

Expert BlogSt. PaulLucas Rhoads

In a historic 2023 session, Minnesota reined in pesticide use, increased pollinator habitat, and built momentum toward additional protections. 

One Year Since Court Restored ESA Protections for Wolves

Expert BlogCalifornia, Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, WisconsinDr. Jennifer Sherry
Without these protections, wolf recovery could be stopped dead in its tracks—or even reversed—as we have seen happen when states with authority over wolf management work to cut populations down through aggressive measures.

Crisis to Opportunity: China Moves Fast to Protect Wildlife

Expert BlogChinaNing (Lisa) Hua
In response to the COVID-19 crisis, China accelerated the pace of wildlife protection over the last year, which included the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress adopting a decision to ban the trade of wildlife as food and to…

When We Talk About Wolves, We Talk About People

Expert BlogMinnesotaDr. Jennifer Sherry

Separating our human-human conflicts from wolves and placing value on wolves interacting in nature as part of a larger ecosystem is perhaps the most ethical approach we can take in navigating the human-wolf relationship.