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Gas Price Relief Shouldn’t Only Be for Drivers

March 23, 2022 Expert BlogCaliforniaVictoria Rome

NRDC stands ready to work on policies that mitigate price spikes while advancing transportation alternatives, reducing air pollution, and supporting the most vulnerable Californians.

How Regenerative Agriculture Can Mitigate Drought

March 22, 2022 Expert BlogCaliforniaArohi Sharma

This is how we can help California farms and ranches be part of a drought mitigation strategy.

It’s Time to Defuse Oil as a Weapon of War

March 22, 2022 Latest NewsInternationalJeff Turrentine

Russia is financing its invasion of Ukraine with oil and gas sales—and many of the same nations horrified by its actions are its customers.

EPA Launches Multi-Pollutant Power Plant Strategy

March 21, 2022 Expert BlogUnited StatesDavid Doniger

Power plants are the nation's biggest industrial polluters, threatening the health of millions. EPA has launched a multi-pollutant strategy to curb their air, water, and land pollution.

Drought Shows that CA’s Water Rights System Is Bankrupt

March 21, 2022 Expert BlogCaliforniaDoug Obegi

The only way out of this cycle of destruction—other than praying for rain, which is not a strategy—is to reduce water deliveries and diversions in order to maintain adequate carryover storage in Shasta and upstream reservoirs this year.

The True Cost of Undervaluing Our Forests

March 21, 2022 Expert BlogInternational, United States, CanadaJennifer Skene

As countries begin implementing the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use, success will depend on embracing a truly global framework that looks beyond forests’ utility.

Canada Should Mark Forests Day by Rejecting Logging Giveaway

March 21, 2022 Expert BlogCanada, OntarioCourtenay Lewis

Canada has near-finalized an ill-named “Conservation Agreement” with the province of Ontario, whose current government has attracted international attention for slashing environmental protections while promising to ramp up widespread industrial logging.

Clean Transportation in PA: Big Questions for 2022 (Part 3)

March 18, 2022 Expert BlogPittsburgh, PennsylvaniaRabi Abonour, Kathy Harris, Mark Szybist

Pennsylvania's transit systems are at a turning point and the state must act to support a more sustainable future.

Government Spending Bill Is Signed into Law: What You Need to Know

March 18, 2022 Expert BlogUnited StatesAlexandra Adams

Getting to a bipartisan agreement in today’s hyper-divided Congress is a major feat—but there’s a lot of work to do yet.

Highlighting Women-Led Clean Energy Solutions in India

March 17, 2022 Expert BlogIndiaSameer Kwatra

Empowering rural women, who are often engaged in agricultural and entrepreneurial activities, in clean energy generation at the village level can improve energy access—and livelihoods.

US International Climate Finance Fails to Rise to the Moment

March 16, 2022 Expert BlogInternational, United StatesJake Schmidt

The final funding allocation falls pitifully short of what is needed to make a real difference in mobilizing necessary climate action and supporting the most vulnerable countries. This short-changed investment leaves the U.S. severely lacking the leadership the world needs…

Youngkin Tilting at Windmills, Releases Bogus RGGI “Report"

March 16, 2022 Expert BlogVirginiaWalton Shepherd

Big polluters can't hide that Virginia's popular RGGI program is already slashing pollution and funding energy independence.

Clean Transportation in PA: Big Questions for 2022 (Part 2)

March 16, 2022 Expert BlogPennsylvaniaKathy Harris, Mark Szybist, Rabi Abonour

Will the Public Utility Commission take on EV rate design and utility support for electrification?

You Can’t Fix High Pump Prices with New Offshore Leasing

March 14, 2022 Expert BlogUnited States, InternationalLauren Kubiak

While the fossil fuel industry would have you believe that the way out is for the government to lease more of our public lands and waters to oil and gas companies, the truth is that it would do nothing to…

Tapping the Infrastructure Bill to Break Our Oil Addiction

March 11, 2022 Expert BlogUnited States, InternationalDeron Lovaas

We’ve seen this movie before. International conflict and global marketplace trends drive up the price of oil. The price at the pump goes up. And people suffer, especially those who can least afford it.

Saving California's Salmon Is Now Up to Governor Newsom

March 11, 2022 Expert BlogCaliforniaKate Poole

Keeping the Trump administration's biological opinions in place would likely drive California’s wild salmon—as well as their habitat in the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary and all who depend on them—into a death spiral from which they may never recover.

U.S. Cities Take Action to Reduce Wasted Food

March 10, 2022 Expert BlogUnited StatesNina Sevilla

Food Waste Action Week aims to raise awareness about the impact that food waste has on our wallets, communities, and climate.

Clean Transportation in PA: Big Questions for 2022 (Part 1)

March 10, 2022 Expert BlogPennsylvaniaKathy Harris, Mark Szybist, Rabi Abonour

How will PennDOT use its EV infrastructure funds provided under the Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act?

Correcting the Record on FERC and Pipelines

March 10, 2022 Expert BlogUnited StatesGillian Giannetti

FERC has a duty to consider the public interest when considering pipeline projects.

EPA Reinstates States’ Ability to Curb Vehicle Pollution

March 9, 2022 Expert BlogUnited StatesLuke Tonachel

This action is key to ensuring that clean vehicle innovation continues, regardless of who is in charge in Washington.