Cutting U.S. emissions by at least half by decade’s end is ambitious, achievable, and necessary. It also requires deliberate actions to ensure an equitable transition.
California’s policy makers and IOUs are now taking action to reward Californians for using electricity at the times when it is cleanest and most plentiful, by introducing time-varying pricing plans.
Canada’s failure to commit to reducing its emissions by up to 52 percent by 2030 puts it out of step with the United States, demonstrating a failure to come to grips with the long term trajectory of its tar sands…
The Biden administration should set strong clean cars standards to put us on track for sales of 55% zero emission, electric vehicles by 2030, and Congress should adopt transformational investments in charging infrastructure, manufacturing, consumer incentives, and transit and safe…
Rob Bonta has been confirmed as California’s new Attorney General. As an Assembly Member, Bonta championed criminal justice reform, authored legislation to ban for-profit prisons, and supported measures to clean up our air, water and coast. He co-authored a bill…
Representatives Debbie Dingell (D-Michigan) and Jeff Fortenberry (R-Nebraska) today reintroduced a revised version of the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (RAWA), as one-third of wildlife species in the U.S face extinction, and up to one million species throughout the planet could…
The Department of Transportation announced today that it will advance efforts to build new electric vehicle charging infrastructure, and it proposed reversing the Trump administration’s illegal attempt to preempt the ability of states to address vehicle pollution. The announcement came…
In response to the COVID-19 crisis, China accelerated the pace of wildlife protection over the last year, which included the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress adopting a decision to ban the trade of wildlife as food and to…
Expert BlogUnited States, InternationalMitchell Bernard
President Biden can appeal to world leaders using the power of example—rapidly cutting emissions while driving the durable, broad-based recovery we need.
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