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How Solar Will Keep the ACs Humming This Summer: Key Takeaways from NERC’s Summer Assessment

Ed Board MemoUnited StatesChristy Walsh, Dr. Yamit Lavi
New, clean energy is critical to keeping the lights on and air conditioners humming.

UN General Assembly Reinforces Accountability for Climate Polluters

Press ReleaseNew York, International
The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution yesterday affirming the International Court of Justice’s ruling that countries have an obligation to reduce carbon pollution within their borders and are legally responsible to live up to climate pledges, while reducing…
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States Can Act Now to Create Workplace Heat Standards

BackgrounderUnited StatesJuanita Constible
There are several pathways to heat standards, which vary by the different buckets of state plan states and territories.

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Senate Passes Biggest Public Lands Package in Decades

Press ReleaseUnited States, Utah
The Senate today passed a massive bipartisan package of bills that would protect vast swaths of public lands and wilderness in Utah and permanently reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund, among other important environmental strides.

Ordinance to Restrict Manganese Introduced at Chicago’s City Council

Press ReleaseChicago
The City of Chicago introduced an ordinance that provides some measures to restrict new manganese operations within city limits. While the ordinance does not cut the volume of manganese, a dangerous neurotoxin, currently stored and handled by facilities in the city, advocates…

NRDC, Partners Sue Trump to Block Revocation of Bears Ears Monument

Press ReleaseUtah
The Natural Resources Defense Council and the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance—together with Earthjustice on behalf of nine other groups—today filed a lawsuit to block the Trump administration from revoking Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument

Trump to Issue Orders Ripping Apart Utah National Monuments

Press ReleaseUtah
President Trump is set to issue orders from Salt Lake City today abolishing Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, two of the nation’s most treasured public lands. The move would strip essential protections from more than 2 million…

NRDC Lawsuit Against EPA Challenges Neonic Pesticide Registrations

Press ReleaseChicago
CHICAGO (October 3, 2017) – The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) today asked a federal court to vacate the registrations of nearly one-hundred products containing three widely-used neonics – acetamiprid, dinotefuran, and imidacloprid – until the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency…

Illinois’ First Fracking Permit Is a “Shoddy” Mess

Press ReleaseChicago
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources today approved its first permit under the state’s high volume fracking law. Experts at the NRDC had criticized the controversial permit application submitted by Woolsey Energy as lacking in key pieces of information.