Gaining a better understanding of the amounts and sources of wasted food, as well as the amounts and sources of surplus food that potentially could be rescued, is the ideal starting point for ensuring a successful city strategy to reduce…
Today the Trump administration began the legal process for withdrawing from the historic Paris Climate Agreement, but Trump cannot disrupt the striking momentum seen in states and cities across the country.
The agency’s latest rollback would keep energy efficiency standards for household bulbs stuck in the past, taking a toll on people’s wallets—and the climate.
As a lawyer for the past 30 years, I’ve worked with a lot of laws. None is as eloquent as NEPA—the National Environmental Policy Act. Few are as short. Few are as broad. Few are as misunderstood.
Overhauling our energy tax code is still a way off, but simply extending and updating existing tax incentives could go a long way in setting the stage for deeper climate action.
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) today joined other environmental and consumer advocacy groups in a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Energy’s rollback of energy-saving standards for the billions of light bulbs that fill about half of the conventional…
President Trump continues to be an outlier on climate change as states, cities, companies, and investors—not to mention 195 other nations—are treating the issue as a real and growing problem they need to address now.
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to allow coal-burning power plants to dump more toxic substances into waterways and companies to keep open unlined, hazardous coal ash ponds.
President Trump today formally notified the United Nations of his plans to withdraw the U.S. from the historic Paris Agreement on climate change. Under terms of the agreement, the U.S. would exit one year after U.N. notification, on November 4…
