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Regional Partnerships Help Our Ocean

January 21, 2020 Expert BlogAlison Chase

Our ocean needs all of us working together. The Regional Ocean Partnership Act helps foster this collaboration and needs our support.

For a Rare Woodpecker in the Longleaf Pine Forest, It's a Hard-Knock Life

January 21, 2020 DispatchFlorida, EastRobynne Boyd

Conservationists have worked hard to help the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker recover, but say there’s still lots more to do. The government seems to disagree.

President Trump Flails at Science & Fails on Climate Action

January 21, 2020 Press ReleaseUnited States

President Trump made the outlandish claim today in Davos, Switzerland that so-called “prophets of doom” were misleading the world about the scientific and real-world evidence of the growing dangers and rising costs of climate change.

EPA Flunks Science 101 With Its Dirty Water Rule

January 17, 2020 Expert BlogJon Devine

The Trump administration’s rollback of the Clean Water Act introduces substantial new risks to human and environmental health—and ignores piles of scientific evidence.

New DOE Policy Kneecaps Energy Efficiency Standards

January 17, 2020 Expert BlogLauren Urbanek

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) just announced it has finalized changes to its energy efficiency standards process that will slow down—if not halt altogether—future efforts to make America’s appliances and equipment more efficient. As a result, both the planet…

California Can Make Lowly Water Heaters Mighty Climate Tools

January 17, 2020 Expert BlogPierre Delforge, Merrian Borgeson

In a groundbreaking vote, California has allocated nearly $45 million toward boosting highly efficient electric heat pump technology that can help avoid burning fossil fuels to heat our water, as well as store California’s abundant pollution-free solar energy to give…

Why Is DWR Helping Trump Weaken Bay-Delta Protections?

January 17, 2020 Expert BlogUnited StatesDoug Obegi

One of Our Most Important Environmental Laws Just Turned 50—Cue Trump Attacking It

January 17, 2020 Latest NewsUnited StatesJeff Turrentine

At polluters’ written request, the president is now trying to gut NEPA, the Magna Carta of environmental law.

New York Charging into 2020 by Electrifying Transportation

January 16, 2020 Expert BlogKathy Harris

More Efficiency for New York Means More Savings, Carbon & $

January 16, 2020 Expert BlogSamantha Wilt

Congress Should Reform Energy Tax Credits

January 16, 2020 Expert BlogArjun Krishnaswami, Sam Krasnow, Dan West

Congress squandered an opportunity to pass a clean energy tax incentive package at the end of 2019, setting back clean energy progress. Lawmakers must promptly extend the credits left out of last month’s bill and develop a long-term solution that…

Coal’s Fall Drives GHG Cut in 2019, Gains May Be Short Term

January 16, 2020 Expert BlogAmanda Levin

Senators Stand for the Climate in Opposing USMCA

January 16, 2020 Press ReleaseUnited States, Mexico, Canada

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said he voted against the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement today on the grounds that it doesn’t combat dangerous climate change.

Department of Energy Sets Major Roadblocks to Future Energy Efficiency Standards

January 16, 2020 Press ReleaseUnited States

The Department of Energy (DOE) today radically altered its process for setting and updating national energy efficiency standards for residential and commercial appliances and equipment, making it significantly more difficult to establish future energy-saving measures and drastically reducing the potential…

New York Issues Bold Energy Efficiency Order

January 16, 2020 Press ReleaseNew York

The New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) today issued an order, implementing the “New Efficiency: New York” plan to bolster its energy efficiency and building decarbonization goals. The programs implemented as part of the order will save more than…