Good news for residents in 11 eastern states: RGGI, a regional power plant program, is working to lower electricity bills for households and businesses by billions of dollars and improve cost of living through investments in energy efficiency, renewable energy…
When President Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, he made sure billions in transportation funding would come to California to modernize and clean up our transportation system. Two bills would help the state prioritize climate and equity in…
Expert BlogUnited StatesLauren Urbanek, Stephen Walls
Buildings are one of the largest sources of carbon pollution and figuring out how to slash those emissions is central to our efforts to address the climate crisis.
The use of PFAS is not worth the risk of cancer, kidney, or liver damage, interference with vaccine uptake, or the myriad other serious health risks the chemicals are associated with.
This Endangered Species Day, let’s commit to do what science tells us we must do to protect these vital links in our shared ecosystems and prevent a stampede toward extinction.
Recent estimates indicate that a staggering 31.4 North Atlantic right whales were killed on average each year between 2015 and 2019—70 percent of these deaths are attributable to entanglement.
The Virginia Air Pollution Control Board, designed to be run by governor-appointed citizens rather than elected officials, is specifically charged with overseeing—and reducing the dirty air impact of—the very polluters that Youngkin just tapped.
The Black List is thrilled to announce that it has once again partnered with NRDC’s (Natural Resources Defense Council) Rewrite the Future program, The Redford Center, and The CAA Foundation to launch a second iteration of the NRDC Climate Storytelling…
Embedded in many roads and highways across the U.S. is a legacy of government policies that have segregated communities, limited economic opportunity, and harmed the environment. You can tell a lot about a neighborhood by simply looking at its sidewalks…
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