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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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New House Energy Agenda Is Out of Touch with Reality

Expert BlogUnited StatesMarc Boom
The Committee’s priority still appears to be cutting taxes on companies earning tens of billions in windfall profits, and to weaken the nation’s landmark environmental laws that protect Americans from their pollution.

New Climate Law Will Boost Clean Energy Job Quality

Expert BlogUnited StatesMarc Boom

This bill is not just the largest investment in fighting the climate crisis in U.S. history, it’s also a major investment in job creation, job quality, and community reinvestment.

Congress Drives Toward a Cleaner Future

Expert BlogUnited StatesMarc Boom, Deron Lovaas

The Build Back Better Act makes historic investments in transit and accelerates the transition to electric vehicles. Now it’s the Senate’s turn to pass it.

House Tax Bill Lays Strong Foundation for Climate Action

Expert BlogUnited StatesMarc Boom

A foundation for aggressive climate action must be made in the form of long-term, accessible and comprehensive tax structures that incentivize the rapid adoption on clean energy.

Thoughts on the Passing of Richard Trumka

Expert BlogUnited StatesMarc Boom

When it came to environmental issues, we shared the same long-term goals on addressing environmental health, addressing the climate crisis and making a better world for families and workers. We didn’t always agree on the exact right path to reach…

House Bill Would Deliver Needed Steps Toward a Clean Economy

Expert BlogMarc Boom
This package pulls together over 60 different bills that, taken as a whole, would significantly improve how our government approaches energy systems - putting climate action, clean jobs, and reducing environmental harms to communities at the forefront of building a…

High-Quality Jobs Help Protect the Planet

Expert BlogUnited StatesLara Ettenson, Marc Boom

The coronavirus pandemic has illustrated the drastic inequities in our society, and it’s decimated the workforce across the board. More than 20 million people are unemployed, most of them Black and Latino. Losses through June exceeded 400,000 jobs across the…

House Climate Plan Offers Bold Vision for the Future

Expert BlogUnited StatesMarc Boom, Jamie Consuegra
This is clearly the most detailed, robust congressional plan on climate change we have seen to date and we hope Congress will act on its solutions quickly. The big picture take away is that this plan recognizes the need for…

Supporting Clean Energy Now More Than Ever

Expert BlogUnited StatesMarc Boom
As a whole this package of incentives would provide a level of investment in clean technologies that hasn’t been seen at the federal level for a decade and will do some serious good in the fight to cut carbon pollution…

Standing with Workers During the COVID-19 Crisis

Expert BlogUnited StatesMarc Boom

NRDC is committed to supporting measures that prioritize needed assistance for people whose health and welfare are most at risk during this crisis.

Time to Act on Climate—with Tax Policy!

Expert BlogMarc Boom
Overhauling our energy tax code is still a way off, but simply extending and updating existing tax incentives could go a long way in setting the stage for deeper climate action.

Hope for the End of Harmful Riders?

Expert BlogMarc Boom
This bill provided strong funding for clean energy programs within the Department of Energy and did so without new attempts to add policy riders that would undermine environmental protections. Is this the beginning of a new pattern, or just a…

Janus Ruling Harms Us All

Expert BlogMarc Boom
The Janus decision is a blow to working people’s ability to protect themselves, their communities and the planet from problems too large to solve individually. This loss is one we will all end up feeling.

No Backsies: Rescission Bill Should Be Opposed

Expert BlogUnited StatesMarc Boom

After passing a trillion-dollar tax scam that gave huge benefits to wealthy corporations like oil companies and will leave the federal government running huge deficits for the next decade, suddenly President Trump and his Republican allies in Congress are trying…

Trump Tax Plan: Big Polluters Win, the Rest of Us Lose

Expert BlogMarc Boom
For decades, the tax code has benefited corporate polluters while leaving behind those who are most at risk from environmental harms. The Trump plan doubles down on these problems and promises to further entrench established interests by rewarding the wealthy…

House GOP Energy Vision Almost As Blind As Trump’s

Expert BlogMarc Boom
On June 27th, House Republicans released an unacceptable Energy and Water appropriations bill that should dispel any belief that the GOP-run Congress will somehow stop reckless spending cuts in the Trump era.