Sometimes you have to wade through a lot of data to see the big picture, but NRDC’s first chief science officer Kristi Pullen Fedinick sees beauty in the details.
The White House today sent the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, the international treaty phasing down hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), to the Senate for its advice and consent to U.S. ratification. The Kigali amendment enjoys wide support, ranging from NRDC (Natural…
NRDC’s first chief equity and justice officer, Melissa Lin Perrella, believes the way to strengthen advocacy work is to prioritize community partners who are closest to the problem—and often closest to the solution.
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Some of the biggest announcements were made last week at the COP-26 in Glasgow on “Transport Day.” The focus: zeroing out pollution from some of the world’s dirtiest and climate-busting sources including cars, trucks, ships, 2- and 3-wheelers, and planes.
President Biden and Secretary of the Interior Debra Haaland announced today that the Department will propose to withdraw federal lands from oil and gas leasing for 20 years within a 10-mile radius around Chaco Culture National Historical Park, a UNESCO…
President Biden will sign the landmark bipartisan infrastructure bill today, clearing the way for Congress to advance the core of his climate agenda, the Build Back Better Act.
Leaders came to Glasgow with the task of putting the world on a much more plausible pathway to “keep 1.5°C alive”. To do that, they needed to set more ambitious commitments and take noticeable steps to strengthen their actions right…
COP26, the global climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, is concluding with modest successes on nations committing to stronger climate measures; to expand clean energy; to end financing fossil fuel projects overseas; to ramp up sales of all-electric vehicles; and other measures…
For close to a decade, the STAND-L.A. coalition has been calling on the city to stop extracting oil near homes and schools. Victory, at long last, is within reach.
Now more than ever, governments must lean into labor laws that protect workers and environmental standards that accelerate the transition to zero-emission freight movement, all to help untangle supply chains and mitigate pollution.
The governments of Costa Rica and Denmark today launched the first country-led effort to accelerate a global shift from oil and gas production to clean sources of energy. At COP26, they unveiled the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance, which supports…
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