Governor Tom Wolf today vetoed House Bill 2025 which sought to strip the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) of its existing legal authority to regulate carbon pollution across all sectors and block Pennsylvania’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas…
The House of Representatives is poised to pass an energy package today, a first step on a path toward more comprehensive climate action in the coming years. The House bill includes measures to boost energy efficiency programs and funding, solar…
Gas tankless water heaters may not be that much better for the climate when accounting for methane emissions—the primary component of gas and a climate-warming super pollutant—finds a study by Stanford researchers.
Land designated as a National Forest belongs to the American people—and we, ordinary citizens, have a say in how that land is managed. This guide will help individual citizens and advocacy groups engage in forest planning and ensure sustainable and…
Governor Newsom of California issued the first of a potential series of actions to fight climate change, starting first with a massive venture to ensure all Californians have options beyond burning fossil fuels in cars, trucks, and buses.
Gov. Whitmer issued an executive order today that commits Michigan to the most ambitious path to combat the climate crisis in the Midwest to date. The order sets a goal of dramatically cutting carbon pollution and achieving carbon-neutrality across the…
Governor Gavin Newsom announced that the State of California will ensure 100 percent electric passenger vehicles by 2035, as well as a host of additional actions.
A group of health and environmental organizations filed a legal petition today, calling upon the California Department of Pesticide Regulation to regulate the planting of crop seeds coated with neurotoxic neonicotinoid insecticides (neonics) and close a loophole that allows the…
This package pulls together over 60 different bills that, taken as a whole, would significantly improve how our government approaches energy systems - putting climate action, clean jobs, and reducing environmental harms to communities at the forefront of building a…
A new report from Oil Change International provides a reality check on the myth that Big Oil is changing—showing failure after failure in reducing climate pollution.
Pesticide-treated seeds, like these, pollute water and harm bees—yet they go unregulated in California. NRDC filed a petition to close a state loophole that lets them fall through the cracks.
During his speech to the UN General Assembly today, Chinese President Xi Jingping announced that the country will enhance its climate change ambitions. This announcement is the starting bell on the next critical leg of the race for the world—especially…
A State of Green Banks 2020 report will be published in November providing a comprehensive review of green banks worldwide and guiding the Platform’s development
Shocking videotapes reveal Canadian mining company CEOs boasting to hoped-for investors about influence over government officials to promote massive 200-year Bristol Bay mining scheme disguised for federal permitting as 20-year mine.
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