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5 Key Reasons to Stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline

Expert BlogAmy Mall
This massive dirty energy project would keep communities dependent on dirty fossil fuels for generations while jeopardizing sensitive rivers and streams, drinking water sources, the climate, and local communities.

New Report Finds Pebble Mine Is “Gaslighting Investors”

Expert BlogTaryn Kiekow Heimer
Confirming many of the 2017 findings of New York-based investment firm Kerrisdale Capital, a new report issued by J Capital Research (J Cap) concludes that Northern Dynasty Minerals (NAK)—the company behind the Pebble Mine proposed at the headwaters of the…

California’s Clean Electricity Grid Powers Forward

Expert BlogRalph Cavanagh
California’s clean energy policies are being blamed incorrectly for what some critics have called “crippling power outages.” The brief rolling blackouts ordered last month by the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) hardly “crippled” the state, and severe heat and record-setting…

A Ladder of Ambition for Zero Net Energy (ZNE) Buildings

Expert BlogDr. David B. Goldstein
Zero Net Energy embraces several related but distinct goals. This blog identifies four levels of increasing ambition, like rungs on a ladder and suggests that Strategic Energy Management can be the process for moving up the ladder over time.

Trump Administration Disregards California’s Climate Crisis

Press ReleaseCalifornia
While millions of Californians suffer from the effects of massive wildfires that have blotted out the sun and rained ash on communities across the state, the Trump administration late last night blithely dismissed any compelling need for the state to…

NRDC Launches Regional Food Matters Project to Reduce Food Waste in 5 Southeastern Cities

Press ReleaseTennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida
NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) announced the expansion of the Food Matters Project in the Southeast region with the goal of furthering larger-scale change related to food waste throughout the region. Building on five years of partnership on the project, Nashville will…

California Bills on Governor Newsom's Desk

Expert BlogVictoria Rome
The California legislative session was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic and several bills were put on hold earlier this year. But NRDC, coalition partners, and our allies in the state legislature still helped pass several important bills that support a…