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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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Energy Efficiency Is for Everyone

Expert BlogDeron Lovaas
The benefits of the nation’s largest energy resource aren’t reaching those who could most use them. We can fix that.

Energy Efficiency Boosts Prospects of Low-Income Marylanders

Expert BlogMaryland, BaltimoreDeron Lovaas

There has been considerable attention from national pundits and political operatives pointing at Baltimore as a city that has not reached its full potential. While they fixate on problems, Energy Efficiency for All teammates write about a helpful solution in…

Why Maryland Needs a Goal for Low-Income Energy Efficiency

Expert BlogDeron Lovaas
A recently-released report helps us better understand the energy affordability challenges low-income Maryland households face, and the need for Maryland to set a clear goal for easing their energy burden through energy efficiency upgrades.

Poll: Most Would Pay More to Help Others with Energy Bills

Expert BlogDeron Lovaas
A new national survey commissioned by Energy Efficiency for All finds that many Americans make sacrifices, sometimes serious ones, so they can pay utility bills. Thankfully a majority support policy solutions that boost energy efficiency of apartments and houses, even…

A Short-Sighted Tax Plan That Undercuts America

Expert BlogDeron Lovaas, Stephanie Gidigbi Jenkins
Any tax plan that defers yet again the urgently needed infrastructure, resiliency building and job-producing revitalization our country needs is a defeat for millions of Americans.

Tell DOT to Protect the Environment, as Required by Law

Expert BlogDeron Lovaas
I just reviewed the U.S. Department of Transportation’s draft 5-year strategic plan, posted on Monday. There is nothing green about the plan, despite the fact that my heart jumped when I spotted the word “environment” under the first objective of…

DOT’s Highway Emissions Rule Horror Story

Expert BlogDeron Lovaas
Politicians running the Federal Highway Administration want to keep us in the dark by rolling back the rule that requires transportation plans to account for the carbon pollution that damages our health and our climate.

Affordable Housing Champion Takes HUD Leadership Role

Expert BlogDeron Lovaas
As readers of this blog are doubtless aware, NRDC is rightly very critical of the many wrongheaded appointments made by the Trump Administration. So it was a relief to learn about at least one appointee who is sorely needed at…

Trump Budget Would Pile Bigger Energy Burden Onto the Poor

Expert BlogDeron Lovaas
The Trump administration’s proposed federal budget includes extreme—and extremely foolhardy—evisceration of two key programs that help lift affordable housing and its low-income residents out of poverty.