Two California bills (SB 54 and AB 1080) introduce language that works to protect our environment, reduce plastic pollution, and save local governments millions of dollars in the process.
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a number of bold climate and clean energy initiatives as part of his State of the City address, including to: develop an offshore wind hub in Brooklyn by 2023; double the amount of solar power…
According to published news reports, Corteva Inc. will end production of the highly toxic pesticide chlorpyrifos by the end of this year. The company, formerly part of Dow Chemical, has been under increasing scrutiny from environmental and public health advocates…
The Bureau of Land Management today finalized its plans to open Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah to drilling and other extractive activity. The Trump administration tried to gut these two monuments in December 2017.
The City of Cincinnati is launching a new low-income multifamily energy efficiency pilot program, Warm Up Cincy, to address energy challenges faced by tenants. Some Cincinnati residents are disproportionately burdened with energy inefficient homes and can be forced to choose…
Gina McCarthy, president and CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council, will tell Congress today that climate change is the world’s biggest public health challenge but also the greatest public health opportunity, and that solutions exist to propel us toward…
The Department of Energy is flouting the will of Congress by delaying clean energy R&D and Congress should act quickly to prevent such ideologically driven efforts that thwart action to combat climate change, a Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) policy…
New York must protect New Yorkers from the dangerous chemicals that contaminate our drinking water. Here are NRDC's recommendations for the regulation of the toxic "forever chemicals" PFOA and PFOS.
My fellow Virginians and I today are celebrating the passage of a bill that will help protect Virginia’s communities and coastal economy from the risky business of offshore oil and gas drilling.
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