Environmental groups, the state of Colorado and industry associations today are urging the Environmental Protection Agency to quickly implement a major new climate law by restricting the use of super climate polluting hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in air conditioning, refrigeration, car air…
As the Biden-Harris administration looks to create good union jobs and tackle climate change at the same time, a new guide charts how cities can incorporate workforce development and equity goals into their climate action plans.
Better mitigating the adverse impacts of fishing on habitat will help our fisheries survive the climate change-related disruptions now underway in our oceans.
An Illinois legislator is pushing for a bill which would significantly enhance criminal penalties for anyone entering or causing damage to a very widely defined group of “critical infrastructure facilities,” effectively chilling peaceful exercise of freedom of speech, and threatening…
If New York is to succeed in reaching its ambitious climate goals, it will need specific and bold transportation-focused goals and policies—while also considering long-term, sustainable ways to fund them. The comprehensive package of goals and policy recommendations can be…
Secretary Haaland knows with every fiber of her body the value of the 1.35 million acres of lands originally designated as Bears Ears National Monument—not simply for their beauty and tranquility, but for their cultural significance and sacred power.
The Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice have asked a federal court to transfer obligations in a consent decree relating to the Limetree Bay oil refinery from its prior, bankrupt owner to its current owner. EPA has…
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today deferred to a federal court on whether to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) pending an environmental review, instead of asking the court to enjoin it.
Canada’s boreal forest is the world’s largest intact forest, but industrial logging operations are chipping away at it, undermining its role in stabilizing the global climate and as a refuge for many of North America’s iconic species. A new report…
ReportCanada, United StatesCourtenay Lewis, Ashley Jordan
By purchasing wood and pulp from the world’s largest remaining intact forest without key environmental and social safeguards, major U.S. corporations are profiting from and enabling ongoing forest degradation.
Fifty investment firms representing over $105 billion sent a letter to EPA and Congress urging permanent protection of Alaska's Bristol Bay from the proposed Pebble Mine.
A new NRDC analysis of Canadian logging companies supplying boreal pulp to the U.S. marketplace is showing just how toilet paper-thin Procter & Gamble’s (P&G) latest claims of sustainability are.
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