Best practices for creating a city staff position dedicated to food waste reduction, cross-agency collaboration, work planning, and sourcing potential funding.
The Trump administration has attempted to cut funding from key federal programs that support low-income families since he’s taken office and now the public health emergency of the coronavirus appears to be his most recent excuse to target the most…
Using a calculator tool NRDC developed based on the models in our original Food Matters research, we worked with the city of Atlanta’s Mayor’s Office of Resilience to estimate a baseline level of food waste and estimated how much surplus…
The twilight of the coal industry is upon us, but with financial giants taking baby steps away from oil and gas, and a major proposed oil production project throwing in the towel, is the true end of new fossil fuel…
As one of the largest servers of meals in the country, the company is poised to make a significant impact by cutting the volume of meat it purchases each year. Unfortunately, it has made very little progress toward cutting the…
The City of Albuquerque took a huge step toward its greenhouse gas reduction goals today by kicking off the Albuquerque Mayor’s Energy Challenge program, a voluntary private-sector energy challenge designed to incentivize and support local businesses in their efforts to…
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler will testify before the U.S. House subcommittee on environment and climate change today to argue in support of President Trump’s devastating proposed 27% cut to the agency’s budget.
Michigan’s proposed standards to reduce “forever chemicals” contaminating drinking water for millions of people across the state were advanced today in a vote by the Environmental Rules Review Committee (ERRC). The standards now head to the Joint Committee on Administrative…
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today introduced a bipartisan energy package that combines elements of several dozen previously considered bills addressing the nation’s energy supply, renewable energy, electricity grid, conservation and mining.
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