Sasha Forbes, una defensora sénior en el Programa de Personas Saludables y Comunidades prósperas de NRDC , explica lo que significa ser desplazado por el cambio climático y por qué las ciudades deben invertir en viviendas asequibles a largo plazo…
What it means to be displaced by climate change and why cities must invest in long-term housing affordability—and a self-sustaining future—for their low-income communities and communities of color.
The “tree-to-toilet pipeline,” which Charmin helps to fuel, devastates forests, the climate, and at-risk species. In fact, P&G’s unsustainable tissue supply chain continues to draw public attention and outrage.
Homeowners, home buyers, and prospective renters deserve to know whether their dream home is at risk. Realtor.com’s decision to provide flood risk information for millions of properties helps address a major problem: property-specific flood data is notoriously hard to find.
After closing early and transitioning to online learning, school systems across the United States are trying to figure out if and how to reopen this fall. Amid the discussion about social distancing in classrooms and hallways, a critical component of…
The events of 2020, and of the past few years, have exposed the need to bolster the nation’s emergency and disaster management capacity—a fact that is borne out in two recent reports from the GAO.
The agency found that the proposed gold and copper mine would cause “unavoidable adverse impacts to aquatic resources” in Alaska’s pristine Bristol Bay watershed that has sustained Indigenous subsistence cultures for thousands of years.
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Colette Pichon Battle is getting the conversation going—and the preparations moving—for Black and Indigenous communities of Louisiana who are still healing from Hurricane Katrina, even as they stand on the frontlines of climate change.
Nevada residents and businesses just hit the jackpot in energy and pollution savings because the Governor’s Office of Energy today adopted minimum energy efficiency standards for new light bulbs! As of January 1, 2021, every common screw-based bulb sold in…
