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India Announces New Climate Actions

November 1, 2021 Expert BlogIndiaSameer Kwatra

India will meet half its energy requirements from renewable energy, and significantly reduce carbon emissions by 2030, Prime Minister Modi announced today at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland.

The Post Office Tries to Keep Delivering Pollution

October 31, 2021 Expert BlogUnited StatesPatricio Portillo, Jordan Brinn

The USPS wants to replace its aging fleet of delivery trucks with more fossil fuel trucks instead of EVs—a huge missed opportunity.

No Longer a Laggard: California's Bold Setback Proposal

October 29, 2021 Expert BlogCaliforniaAnn Alexander

Californians have the opportunity now to make their views known about the proposed regulation—what’s excellent, and what needs improvement.

NRDC to Defend EPA Authority to Curb Climate-changing Power Plant Pollution

October 29, 2021 Press ReleaseUnited States

The Supreme Court today accepted cases seeking to overturn a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia that canceled the Affordable Clean Energy rule, the Trump administration Environmental Protection Agency’s do-nothing regulation for dangerous power…

What Success Looks Like in Glasgow

October 29, 2021 Expert BlogInternational, United StatesManish Bapna

And how President Biden can help to achieve it.

Missing the Forest: How Carbon Logging Loopholes Hinder Canada's Climate Leadership

October 28, 2021 ReportCanadaJennifer Skene

Protecting the Canadian boreal’s carbon stores is a crucial element in our fight against climate change, but industrial logging is responsible for cutting down more than one million acres of the forest each year. The government of Canada has used…

Get the Lead Out: Biden Administration Pledges Cross-Government Strategy to Protect Children and Communities at Risk

October 28, 2021 Press ReleaseUnited States

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced a whole-of-government strategy intended to curb exposure to lead found in contaminated water, paint, air and soil, with a focus on children and communities at high-risk. There is no safe level of…

25 Cities Demonstrate How Major Climate Wins Are Possible

October 28, 2021 Expert BlogUnited StatesHilary Firestone

Cities account for an overwhelmingly large percentage of global carbon emissions, primarily through transportation and buildings. But 25 cities, empowered by the Bloomberg Philanthropies American Cities Climate Challenge, found that when they teamed up together, they could make real strides…

NRDC President: Historic Climate Progress Must be Enacted

October 28, 2021 Press ReleaseUnited States

White House and congressional negotiators agreed to a framework for the budget reconciliation package that will pair with bipartisan infrastructure legislation to enact the core of President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda.

Report: Heading into COP26, Canada is hiding more than 80 million tons of carbon emissions from logging

October 28, 2021 Press ReleaseCanada

Missing the Forest: How Carbon Loopholes for Logging Hinder Canada’s Climate Leadership

Canada’s Accounting Artifice Masks Logging’s Climate Toll

October 28, 2021 Expert BlogCanadaJennifer Skene

A new report from NRDC, Nature Canada, Environmental Defence Canada, and Nature Québec illustrates that, through a series of accounting and regulatory loopholes, the Government of Canada has drawn a curtain over the logging industry’s carbon emissions, allowing the sector…

Sustainable Finance: Key Theme for the US-China Cooperation

October 27, 2021 Expert BlogChina, United StatesAlfonso Pating, Sarah Dougherty

Michigan Governor Whitmer Cracks Down on State Purchases of PFAS

October 27, 2021 Press ReleaseMichigan

An important first step in the journey to rid Michigan of this scourge, says NRDC

The Next Step to a National Disaster Safety Board

October 27, 2021 Expert BlogUnited StatesAnna Weber

What do the deadly Texas deep freeze in March, Hurricane Ida in August, and the summer’s heatwaves and wildfires have in common? In each case, their worst effects might have been prevented, if we had applied lessons we’d learned from…

Cooling with Less Warming in India

October 27, 2021 Expert BlogIndiaPrima Madan

Read about the latest at the Montreal Protocol meetings this week and efforts toward climate friendly cooling in a warming world.