WASHINGTON —The Biden administration announced a $1 billion contribution to the Green Climate Fund to help build climate resilience and speed the clean energy transition in vulnerable countries.
Today’s proposal from Speaker Kevin McCarthy not only holds our nation hostage with the risk of financial ruin if we fail to address the debt limit, but it also threatens us with climate ruin as well—and will hurt the communities…
Transportation is the largest source of climate pollution in the U.S. and is also a major source of other harmful pollutants that significantly impact public health. Urge President Biden, EPA, and DOT to finalize the strongest possible clean vehicle standards!
Forests—especially America's mature and old-growth forests—are natural climate solutions. But those on federal lands are threatened by ongoing logging, which means much of their stored carbon is rapidly released. Urge President Biden to create strong, lasting regulatory protections for mature…
Fewer than 100 critically endangered Rice’s whales are left in the world. Lease Sale 259 auctions off key areas of Rice’s whales habitat to the fossil fuel industry, opening the door to seismic airgun blasting and offshore drilling. Tell the…
This year, four of Illinois’s biggest gas utilities have filed massive rate increases that will intensify the energy burden on families and lock Illinois into its dependence on fossil fuels. Urge Governor Pritzker and your state representatives to create a…
Nearly half of the PFAS “forever chemicals” present in drinking water samples are not monitored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), according to a peer-reviewed analysis conducted by NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) and community members in 16 states.
WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency proposed new tailpipe emission standards for cars and trucks today that will help address the largest source of carbon pollution.
In a settlement filed in court Friday, the U.S. Department of the Interior agreed to determine whether Mexico has failed to stop illegal fishing and trade of totoaba that is driving the vaquita porpoise’s extinction. The determination could result in…
WASHINGTON — President Biden vetoed a Congressional Review Act resolution that would have weakened protections under the Clean Water Act and tied the hands of future presidents trying to rectify the damage.
