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…
OAKLAND – Environmental justice and conservation groups filed an amicus brief today in calling on the California Department of Toxic Substance Control (DTSC) to regulate metal shredding facilities throughout the state.
As a new year begins, it is urgent for Mexico to step back from its anti-climate energy policies and focus instead on a green recovery that brings clean energy jobs and builds more resilient communities.
New York State has been a climate leader over the past few years--and must keep pressing forward in 2021 to fight for a cleaner, healthier, and more equitable future.
The divisions in our country did not start with Donald Trump, but as president, he has poured gasoline on already raging fires. This is where it has brought us.
NRDC and the Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM) petitioned the Federal Emergency Management Agency to update federal rules for building and land-use in the nation’s floodplains, and to develop flood maps that project future flood risks. As the seas…
With millions of people at risk due to worsening flooding and costs of flood recovery rising as the climate continues to warm, groups petitioned the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) today to update its rules for construction and land-use in…
In 2021, the U.S. has a critical opportunity to avert an even worse climate crisis, by building off of the lessons of 2020, which points to a more unifying approach to tackle the climate, economic, and racial justice crises in…
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