News & Commentary

While the Department of Transportation proposed rescinding the LNG by rail rule, the Department must still adopt this proposal.

Fed nominations filled in some upcoming vacancies—but left the important position running bank supervision empty. This is especially important for managing climate risk and working to avoid a 2008-level financial crisis.

Local green banks and development finance institutions have a key role to play in channeling public finance to where it’s most needed most and unlocking private capital to jump start new local green markets.

The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency committed to putting out guidance on how it will integrate climate risks in its oversight of banks.

U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and Washington Governor Jay Inslee answered advocates’ calls to energize the decades-long push to save our iconic salmon from extinction.

The Biden administration’s very welcome decision to block sulfide-ore copper mining on the edges of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is personal to me and my family. My in-laws have roots there going back more than a century, and…

The Trump Administration’s biological opinions were the result of scientific misconduct, political interference, and bias. The end result is nothing short of a plan for extinction that is playing out before our eyes.

It's time to put the interests of the community above the interests of the ancestors of a handful of white settlers who staked their claim to our public resources over a century ago.

The Biden administration is in a challenging position—having to clean up a horrendous mess created by the Trump administration while also needing to strengthen safeguards to address the fact that the country is still a long way off from the…

Climate risk is just like any emerging financial risk that bank regulators must start to include in their oversight of banks.

Development of the PennEast Pipeline has been put on hold! This fracked gas pipeline would be disastrous for the Delaware River Basin and would exacerbate the climate crisis—here’s how we can stop the pipeline permanently.

The U.S. needs to urgently mobilize more international climate finance if we are going to have a chance of a successful climate summit in Glasgow this November, and any chance of keeping 1.5°C alive.

On November 2nd, New Yorkers can lead a new wave of state environmental rights amendments if they decide that the state should officially recognize everyone’s right to clean air and water.