A bill drafted by Duke Energy behind closed doors with legislators was unveiled on Tuesday. The bill would mandate the construction of new natural gas plants, locking North Carolina into dirty energy generation for decades. The bill also decreases utility…
A group of senators is pushing an alternative infrastructure plan that ignores most of President Biden’s robust provisions addressing climate change in his American Jobs Plan.
In recently filed comments and reply comments, NRDC together with Sierra Club, the Regional Plan Association, Association for Energy Affordability, and New Yorkers for Clean Power presented a vision for a gas system planning process to identify the lowest-cost, least-risk…
Expert BlogInternationalTom Zimpleman, Gabriel Daly, Sarah Dougherty
G7 leaders met in the UK last week, and climate was high on the agenda, as it must be. One of the areas of agreement among the leaders of the world’s largest economies might seem new but has been in…
Logging in Estonia is destroying the country’s forests. And part of the blame may lay squarely on the UK, which is one of the main importers of wood from Estonia to burn as fuel for electricity in industrial scale power…
In a disappointing decision, Judge Terry Doughty of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana ruled that the Biden administration must end its temporary moratorium on offshore and onshore oil and gas leasing.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today pushed back the effective date for implementation of the Trump Administration’s federal drinking water regulation, the Lead and Copper Rule Revisions, until December 2021. The much-ballyhooed Trump-era Rule, which left millions of people exposed…
The way we lease and extract oil and gas from our public lands and waters is broken, and our ability to stave off the worst impacts of climate change depends, in part, on fixing it now.
America needs a transit bill that rises to the challenges we face as a nation and the essential role transit plays within the broader transportation system.
The Denver Office of Climate Action, Sustainability, and Resiliency (CASR) released a Renewable Heating and Cooling Plan today showing how Denver residents can heat and cool their homes and businesses efficiently with clean electricity. The Plan describes opportunities to electrify…
As Pennsylvania draws nearer to participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, Pennsylvanians are increasingly interested in how the state will invest the proceeds it receives from the auction of RGGI allowances—likely hundreds of millions of dollars per year.
The most vulnerable people, including millions in India already battling a deadly COVID-19 pandemic, face the worst impacts of climate change. Climate disasters like the cyclone last month, coming on heels of the year-long pandemic, have exacerbated and laid bare…
San Diego small businesses, like Juan Pablo Sanchez’s Super Cocina, have reinvented parking lots to serve communities. A new proposal would make it easier for businesses to make these changes permanent.
