The USDA announced it would rescind the 2001 Roadless Rule, a provision that generally prohibits commercial logging and road construction on 58.5 million acres across the National Forest System.
Because cities are often responsible for waste management, land use, and local health and food regulations, they are on the front lines of reducing food waste.
Manufactured homes provide affordable housing for more than one million Californians, yet they disproportionately rely on fossil fuel heating. Expanding access to electrification is a matter of climate action, public health, and housing justice.
State lawmakers voted yesterday to add more bureaucratic red tape to government agency operations, setting the stage for more scrutiny over spending and frustrating the state’s response to public needs.
Expert BlogInternationalDavid Doniger, Jeff Fralick, Dr. Richie Kaur
The Montreal Protocol protects the ozone layer and helps slow climate change. We rely on a complex atmospheric monitoring network to know how well this treaty is working. That network needs an upgrade.
The New York State legislature has passed bill S8417/A8888, which repeals a rule that required utility companies to supply natural gas to any customer within 100 feet of an existing line.
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In partnership with community-based organizations, NRDC is pushing the highly polluting Port of Los Angeles and its terminal operators to clean up their act.
The president does not have the authority to reduce or rescind national monuments created under the Antiquities Act. So we sued to protect Utah’s Grand Staircase–Escalante.
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