The US Department of Energy finalized a rule this week that eliminates the Trump-era change that allowed for the sale of new multi-nozzle showerhead arrays to bypass the efficiency standard in place for showerheads since 1994.
The Biden administration, Congress, and leading states are all taking action to leverage the government’s purchasing power to help decarbonize these important industrial sectors.
The agency must finish repealing harmful Trump-administration efficiency standards regulations to avoid needlessly deferring immense consumer and environmental benefits.
NRDC and a coalition of partners filed technical comments on the Draft Environmental Review of the largest biofuel refinery conversion project in the world today.
Transportation investments from the bipartisan infrastructure bill could be either a boon for sustainable mobility choices, or a boon for harmful carbon emissions, researchers at Georgetown University said in a new report.
Expert BlogUnited StatesEmily Davis, Dr. Vijay Limaye
This holiday season, the legacy of last year’s “Christmas gifts” from the outgoing Trump EPA is still very much alive. NRDC is pushing on multiple fronts for EPA to take bold action to deliver cleaner air.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced major funding and a series of steps to strengthen controls for lead in drinking water, prioritizing action in disadvantaged communities, but failed to deliver enforceable requirements that would fulfill President Biden’s commitment…
Senate negotiators have scrubbed language from the Build Back Better Act that would protect ocean waters, marine life and coastal communities from the risk of offshore oil and gas drilling. The language that was taken out would have ended future…
Expert BlogUnited States, InternationalAlex Hillbrand, David Doniger
There’s been a lot of positive progress on eliminating hydrofluorocarbons, the super potent climate warmers used as refrigerants in cooling appliances, in foams and aerosols, and more
The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) voted today to approve the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Standard. With this standard in place, CDOT and local transportation planning organizations will be required—for the first time—to consider the climate impacts of transportation projects such…
It’s no secret that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s reviews of gas pipelines and export facilities need an overhaul. With continued pressure, and the addition of a fifth commissioner, 2022 has the potential to be transformative.
Despite a decade of claimed progress, sales of medically important drugs remain stubbornly high, underscoring what increasingly appears to be the FDA's failed approach.
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