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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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In a Win for Health, the EPA Toughens Limits on Soot Air Pollution

Expert BlogUnited StatesDr. Vijay Limaye, John Walke, Emily Davis
Today's agency action will deliver life-saving protections from dangerous air pollution.

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The Climate Math of Home Heating Electrification

Expert BlogUnited StatesAlex Hillbrand, Pierre Delforge

A new study shows that a typical U.S. home can cut its heating-related climate pollution by 45 percent to 72 percent by swapping out a gas-fired furnace for an efficient, all-electric heat pump.

Let Us Breathe! A Vision for a Healthy Oxnard

Expert BlogCaliforniaNatalia Ospina, Heather Kryczka
Learn how an industrial project threatens a community-led vision for health and justice in a coastal California community, and support residents by submitting a comment letter by Feb. 14th.

Infrastructure Law Is a Chance to Build with Clean Materials

Expert BlogUnited StatesDeron Lovaas, Sasha Stashwick
Secretary Buttigieg must not overlook the opportunity to pair billions in infrastructure investments with programs to purchase low carbon construction materials—building railways, roads, and bridges with cleaner concrete, cement, and steel.

China’s Top Industries Can Peak Collective Emissions in 2025

Expert BlogChinaJake Schmidt
Joint research by NRDC and Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning (CAEP) finds that China’s top coal-consuming sectors—power, steel, cement, and coal-chemicals—can collectively peak both coal consumption and carbon dioxide emissions in 2025.

2021 Saw Real Momentum for Clean Materials Procurement

Expert BlogUnited StatesSasha Stashwick
The Biden administration, Congress, and leading states are all taking action to leverage the government’s purchasing power to help decarbonize these important industrial sectors.

It Was a Cool Year to Curb HFCs

Expert BlogUnited States, InternationalAlex Hillbrand, David Doniger
Here's a roundup of 2021 in HFC policy land.

Congress Can 'Build Back Better' With Low Carbon Materials

Expert BlogUnited StatesSasha Stashwick

The country is on the precipice of a generational investment to renew American infrastructure. Policymakers can ensure we literally ‘Build Back Better’ with cleaner concrete, cement and steel holding up the next generation of America’s schools, roads, bridges, and office…

Green Hydrogen Opportunities for the Midwest

Expert BlogUnited States, MidwestAmulya Yerrapotu, Christian Tae

Decarbonizing the power sector to avert a climate crisis will require working at more emissions-heavy sectors like steelmaking and long-distance trucking, which are prominent in the Midwest but challenging to electrify and clean up.

To Reach Historic Climate Goals, Decarbonize U.S. Industry

Expert BlogUnited StatesSasha Stashwick, Arjun Krishnaswami, Jackie Wong
One area the Biden administration has rightly prioritized for climate action is the U.S. industrial sector, which will be key to achieving our climate targets and to revitalizing America’s manufacturing sector.

Latin America at the Leaders Summit on Climate

Expert BlogArgentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, MexicoCarolina Herrera, Jessica Carey-Webb, Marilyn Kunce, Amanda Maxwell
The five Latin American countries that participated in the Leaders Summit on Climate – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico – displayed a broad range of ambition. Once again, some countries demonstrated their willingness to be climate action leaders while…