As NRDC’s California state lead for clean energy and equity, Alexis Cureton is working to ensure that communities of color help shape energy policy, both inside and outside of the energy sector.
The Trump Administration’s efforts to enlarge Shasta Dam was always a bad idea. In addition to being illegal under California law, it’s been clear for years that raising the height of the dam would destroy Native American sacred sites, harm…
California's water resilience portfolio presented an opportunity for the Governor to think creatively about water resiliency strategies. Instead of proposing new ideas, or championing holistic improvements to water health using soil, the Administration leaned on existing efforts.
The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing an environmental rollback that ends enforcement of a longstanding “once in, always in” toxic air pollution policy, which required industrial facilities to implement major pollution control measures as long as the plant is in…
HB 6 contains what some have called a “decoupling” provision, but this section of the law passed last year had absolutely nothing to do with energy efficiency (which HB 6 effectively extinguished as a priority for all the state’s major…
Most of our household plumbing contains some amount of lead, whether in faucets, fittings, lead solder, or lead pipes, but lead service lines present the largest source and risk of lead in drinking water.
If you are trying to find out if you have a lead service line and you are comfortable with uncertainty and do not want to dig up your yard, water sampling can provide an alternative but less conclusive approach for…
In rare good news, the permits that allow fossil fuel companies to use deafening airguns—which harm many marine species—will expire on November 30 and not be renewed.
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