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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.

Trump EPA Rejects Hawaiʻi's Clean Air Plan, Preventing Utility's Own Requests to Retire Aging Oil-Burning Plants

Press ReleaseHonolulu
The Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency finalized its rejection of Hawaiʻi's Regional Haze State Implementation Plan on Friday.

House Transportation Bill Would Stick Americans With New Fees, Higher Costs

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee released legislation that would set priorities and funding for federally funded transportation over the next five years.

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Energy efficiency and decarbonization, buildings, food and agriculture, industrial policy and hydrogen

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China-based climate, energy and wildlife

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Water, Canada, toxics

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Environmental justice and Chicago-based environmental issues

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Emerging climate and energy policy

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Lands, oceans, wildlife, liquefied natural gas (LNG)

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NRDC Report Determines LNG Exports Are a Climate Disaster

Press ReleaseUnited States, International
The export of U.S. liquefied natural gas poses an unacceptable risk to the climate, according to a landmark analysis that looks at the life-cycle emissions of producing, processing, shipping and burning the gas.

EPA Leaves Unsafe Health Standard for Soot Emissions in Place

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Trump Environmental Protection Agency today issued a final rule for soot pollution that leaves federal limits untouched, passing on the opportunity to save thousands of lives from pollution that harms the lungs and makes it harder to survive Covid-19.

New Report Backs Bold NV Climate Strategy

Press ReleaseNevada
The State of Nevada Climate Initiative released a State Climate Strategy today. The release of the Climate Strategy follows a broad and inclusive stakeholder process and comes a few weeks after the release of a separate report published by Evolved…

COVID-19 Shows How No One Is Immune from Converging Health Crises

Press ReleaseUnited States
Each year, the Lancet Countdown tracks more than 40 indicators on links between health and climate change and this year presents the most worrying outlook to date as key trends worsen. However, the latest report finds that with climate action…

Advocates Respond to San José Local Energy Code Vote

Press ReleaseSan Jose (California)
The San José City Council approved on Tuesday evening a ground-breaking expansion of the City’s local energy code that will make all-electric new construction the new normal in the nation’s 10th-largest city. With 40 cities and counties across California approving…

NRDC 8th Annual Energy Report: Slow & Steady Won’t Win the Climate Race

Press ReleaseUnited States
America’s power plants met their carbon pollution reduction target 11 years earlier than anticipated under an Obama-era rule, even though the Trump administration officially repealed it, according to the 8th Annual Energy Report published today by NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council)…

GM Abandons Attack on State Authority Over Clean Car Standards

Press ReleaseCalifornia
In a letter to the leaders of NRDC and other environmental organizations, General Motors announced today that it would abandon its legal support for the Trump administration’s attempt to gut the authority of California and other states to set clean…

Biden Picks Mark “Clear Return to U.S. Climate Leadership”

Press ReleaseUnited States
President-Elect Joe Biden will name former Secretary of State John Kerry to oversee the administration’s international climate change policies; former Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken to become Secretary of State; and senior foreign service officer Linda Thomas-Greenfield to serve…

Trump Targets Sage Grouse in Midnight Assault

Press ReleaseUnited States
In another Trump administration attempt to exploit western lands for oil and gas exploration, the Bureau of Land Management today moved to undermine critical protections for the iconic greater sage grouse.

GM’s Electric-Vehicle Promises Are at Odds With Its Work to Gut Standards

Press ReleaseUnited States
General Motors announced today that it would accelerate production of new electric vehicle models and make new investments in U.S. battery and vehicle manufacturing plants. The company's statement said nothing about its continued efforts to gut federal tailpipe emission and…

Trump Administration Guts Protections for National Forests

Press ReleaseUnited States
The U.S. Forest Service issued a sweeping rollback of protections for our national forests today, its latest effort to weaken landmark rules established five decades ago under the National Environmental Policy Act.