Wind and solar power were not the primary cause of the grid failure in Texas—the main culprit was fossil gas plants that went offline. In fact, wind and solar are intrinsically more reliable than fossil power, but not in the…
Electric grids across the Midwest, South, and in Texas failed a key resilience test during last month’s winter storm, and one key conclusion is clear: The grids connected via transmission lines fared significantly better than those isolated and on their…
Environmental justice leaders from around the country called on senators to support Brenda Mallory to head the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Mallory, a top official at the Southern Environmental Law Center and CEQ general counsel during the Obama…
A new bill introduced in the New York State legislature would ban the sale of harmful filtered tobacco products, which are a known threat to human health and are destructive to our environment and waterways.
The deadly winter storms and power outages in Texas last month are just the latest example of why the United States needs a National Disaster Safety Board.
The national model plumbing code published by the International Code Council is due for an update this year, and it could make a difference on how much energy new homes use.
A new NRDC report explains how one in three seafood meals comes from illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing—a dirty global industry that harms ecosystems, hurts fishermen who play by the rules, and relies on trafficked labor.
Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing is any fishing conducted in conflict with or outside of laws regulating seafood harvest. IUU fishing jeopardizes the health of the world’s fish populations, harms marine habitats, and threatens food and national security.
Although both California and Texas recently faced traumatic weather events, the consequences for electric system reliability were dramatically different.
As part of the American Cities Climate Challenge, a coalition of climate advocates just helped pass a series of bills that will curb emissions and rein in Honolulu’s sky-high cost of living at once.
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