In his 2021 State of the State address, Governor Andrew Cuomo today announced a slate of key climate and clean energy priorities. These include a four-point plan to build large scale renewables Upstate, jumpstart New York manufacturing, expand transmission, and…
Xcel Energy will deploy approximately 20,000 electric vehicle (EV) charging stations at residential, commercial, and public sites across Colorado, under a $110 million plan formally approved by the Colorado Public Utilities Commission this week. The plan is the first full-scale…
Now that the United States is poised to rejoin the Paris Agreement, the Biden-Harris administration should use all the tools in its diplomatic toolkit to drive climate action around the world. It will be particularly critical for the United States…
The United States, as one of the world’s largest fossil fuel exporters and financiers, plays an outsized role in determining the global trajectory of greenhouse gas emissions. Too much government money is wasted on fossil fuel projects when more responsible…
With a new draft bill to reauthorize our federal fisheries law, House lawmakers are breathing new life into the conversation about managing our nation’s fisheries.
NRDC’s government affairs team and policy experts work to pass laws in California, and we expect them to be implemented as intended for the health of our communities—those that are already bearing too great a cumulative environmental burden. This pandemic…
it is up to the Climate Action Council and New York State agencies to use this guidance in the way it is intended—to ensure that the state pursues ambitious greenhouse gas reduction actions that ensure we meet our climate targets…
A critical tool for cutting greenhouse gas emissions is buried in the massive “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021’’: a provision that offers permanent tax incentives for highly energy-efficient commercial buildings. This incentive can accelerate efforts to transform the buildings sector from…
Governor Gavin Newsom today released his 2021-22 budget proposal, outlining a commitment to advancing an equitable broad-based recovery from unprecedented pandemic-related economic challenges. The proposal will be debated in the legislature before final adoption in June.
In the last days of the Trump administration, the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to issue a rule today seeking to exempt some of the nation’s biggest polluters—including producers of oil and gas, chemicals, cement, steel and aluminum—from future Clean…
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