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Charlotte Gets Its Moment in the Sun with New Solar Project

February 25, 2020 Expert BlogCharlotteIrene Nielson

Charlotte's city council voted to approve a new utility-scale solar project that will supply 25% of municipal energy.

SCOTUS Debrief: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline Cowpasture Case

February 25, 2020 Expert BlogGillian Giannetti

The Supreme Court heard oral argument yesterday on whether the Atlantic Coast Pipeline can lawfully cross the Appalachian Trail on federal land. The justices’ questioning focused on three key questions. First, can the Appalachian Trail be divorced from the land…

NRDC Sues Over Energy Dept.’s Illegal Refusal to Update Light Bulb Energy-Saving Standards

February 25, 2020 Press ReleaseUnited States

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) today asked a federal court to force the U.S. Department of Energy to implement updated energy-saving standards for nearly every household light bulb sold in America. The government’s repeated, illegal defiance of a 2007…

The Amazon Is Still on Fire

February 25, 2020 Expert BlogJessica Carey-Webb

The Energy Department’s Continued Attacks on Energy-Saving Light Bulbs Are Illegal

February 25, 2020 Expert BlogUnited StatesNRDC

NRDC and partners are suing the agency for its refusal to update energy efficiency standards that would save U.S. consumers billions of dollars and spare the planet 38 million tons of carbon pollution annually.

NY’s Impressive Energy Efficiency & Heat Pump Order, cont.

February 24, 2020 Expert BlogSamantha Wilt

DOE Under Secretary Misses the Efficiency Standards Facts

February 24, 2020 Expert BlogLauren Urbanek

NYC’s New Plan Would Let Massive Sewage Overflows Continue

February 24, 2020 Expert BlogNew York, New York CityLarry Levine

Almost every time it rains in New York City, raw sewage, pet waste, trash, and polluted runoff flow into waterways where people swim, fish, row, kayak, and boat.

A First: Converting Energy Efficiency Gains into Clean Power

February 24, 2020 Expert BlogRalph Cavanagh

Can a utility in one region buy some of the pollution-free electricity that a utility in another region saves when its customers improve their energy efficiency? We’re about to find out. And if this effort succeeds, it will be a…

UPDATED: NJ Moves Toward Restricting Bee-toxic Neonics

February 24, 2020 Expert BlogLucas Rhoads

AZ Helps Fossil Industry Limit Local Clean Energy Leadership

February 24, 2020 Expert BlogAlejandra Mejia Cunningham

Arizona’s state government just moved to severely limit local communities’ ability to support buildings powered entirely by affordable clean electricity for decades to come. This attack on local leadership is the latest attempt to keep Americans locked into polluting fuels…

Cleaning Up North Carolina’s Transportation Sector

February 24, 2020 Expert BlogLuis Martinez, Kathy Harris

Proposed Maryland Legislation Addresses Toxic Chemicals

February 24, 2020 Expert BlogTom Hucker, Avinash Kar

Proposed legislation in Maryland would ban flame retardants in furniture, children’s products, and mattress foam; would phase out the use of the brain-harming pesticide chlorpyrifos; and would address lead in school drinking water.

Collaborative Solution Needed to End the Deadlock Over Dams

February 24, 2020 Expert BlogGiulia C.S. Good Stefani

NRDC joins a diverse group of seventeen conservation, energy sector, and port leaders from across the Northwest in a letter to the governors of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana. Together, we want to try and break the decades old logjam…

Towards a Global Endangered Species Act

February 22, 2020 Expert BlogPaul Todd