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The Biden Administration Protects Millions of Acres of Arctic Alaska

Latest NewsAlaskaJenny Shalant
The new Special Areas Rule in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska could boost biodiversity and empower Indigenous Peoples to defend the lands they’ve relied on for generations.
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“Forever Chemicals” Called PFAS Show Up in Your Food, Clothes, and Home

ExplainerUnited StatesMolly M. Ginty, Courtney Lindwall
These toxic chemicals are so common in consumer products and manufacturing that they’re everywhere—including inside our bodies.
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In Planning for Climate Change, Native Americans Draw on the Past

ExplainerUnited States, CanadaTim Vanderpool
Across North America, Indigenous tribes and nations are consulting their traditional ecological knowledge to help prepare for a warming world.

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Accelerating Clean Energy for All in India

Expert BlogSameer Kwatra
As India celebrates 70 years of its independence, solar energy is changing lives by accelerating clean energy access for all – solving energy poverty and climate change at the same time. In 1947, the newly independent country had about 1,500…

State Lawmakers Support Strong Federal Efficiency Standards

Expert BlogKit Kennedy
Federal energy efficiency standards help us heat, light and cool our homes; run our businesses; and use more electronic devices while also lowering our energy bills and slashing greenhouse gas and other forms of air pollution.

Missing from U.S. & Mexican NAFTA Plans: People & the Planet

Expert BlogAmanda Maxwell
The renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement –NAFTA—has been an international topic of discussion and conjecture for many months. That conversation will shift from speculation to substance when negotiators from Mexico, Canada and the U.S. sit down for…

New Poll: Americans Decry Wrong Infrastructure Investment

Expert BlogStephanie Gidigbi Jenkins
Americans say they support infrastructure spending, but a new NRDC-sponsored poll shows they oppose many parts of President Trump's budget plan regarding his approach to infrastructure.

Huge Climate Opportunity If RGGI Governors Step Up

Expert BlogBruce Ho, Jackson Morris
The governors of nine Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states are about to make a momentous climate decision: how much power plant pollution they’re going to cut, and how fast they’ll cut it.

In Solidarity with Charlottesville

Expert BlogRhea Suh
The hatred and intolerance have no place in this Virginia town or anywhere else. We stand alongside those who stand for equality, justice, and civil rights for all.

How College Campuses Can Lead in Fighting Climate Change

Expert BlogLara Ettenson
As bastions of knowledge, progress, and innovation, it’s not surprising that colleges are often at the forefront of the battle against climate change, striving to implement energy efficiency, clean energy, and sustainability curricula and programs.

To Pruitt EPA: See You and Your Illegal TSCA Rules in Court

Expert BlogUnited StatesDaniel Rosenberg

NRDC, the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, and Cape Fear River Watch are suing EPA to make sure it assesses chemicals as required by the revised Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). If EPA doesn’t conduct a complete evaluation, it…

NY Begins Exploring Pricing Carbon in its Electricity Market

Expert BlogJackson Morris
Imagine what would happen if the utilities buying the electricity to power our homes and businesses had to pay more for it depending on how much carbon pollution the power plants supplying the power pumped into the atmosphere.

Trump’s Top 3 Excuses If Climate Report Is Approved

Expert BlogAliya Haq
A major climate report awaits final clearance from the White House on August 18. Publishing this report as-is will not square easily with the Trump agenda to roll back our climate progress. If I were a betting woman, I would…