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New York Passes Historic Climate Bill

June 24, 2019 Expert BlogNRDC

The nation-leading plan sets the strongest greenhouse gas emission limits in the country while prioritizing the most at-risk communities.

The Sustainable Square Mile Handbook: Cultivate Your Green Village with Community-Based Principles and Practices

June 24, 2019 ManualUnited StatesMarissa Ramirez, Madeline Keating

New York City Students Are Taking On Climate Change, Starting in the Lunchroom

June 24, 2019 DispatchNew York CityJessica Rodriguez

This fall, a Meatless Mondays initiative will go into effect across all 1,800 NYC public schools.

Driving (on) Clean Energy: Touring the Midwest in an EV

June 24, 2019 Expert BlogPatricia Valderrama, Ada Statler, Madhur Boloor, Samuel Garcia

AB 936: Addressing Nonfloating Oil Not a Moment Too Soon

June 24, 2019 Expert BlogAnn Alexander

AB 936, authored by Assemblymember Robert Rivas, would make sure that California is as prepared as possible for a nonfloating oil spill, and able to respond quickly and properly if the worst happens.

Leading Labor Unions and Environmental Groups Join Forces to Act on Climate

June 24, 2019 Expert BlogNRDC

The Solidarity for Climate Action platform will combat our greatest global threat while creating jobs and tackling economic inequality.

G20 Coal Subsidies: Government Support to a Fading Industry

June 24, 2019 Expert BlogHan Chen

Last year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change made clear in its special report that limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius would require a rapid phaseout of coal. Unfortunately, findings from our new report show that G20 governments have been…

What I Wish I Heard at the Climate Resilience Hearing

June 24, 2019 Expert BlogUnited StatesClare Morganelli

The House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis must center equity and justice in conversations on climate resilience.

Pebble Mine Opponents Warn Investors of Risks

June 21, 2019 Expert BlogTaryn Kiekow Heimer

Its message is unequivocal: Pebble Mine is a reckless scheme.

Mining Oil Shale Would Be Disastrous to Utah’s Rivers, Climate, and Public Health—but the Trump Administration Wants to Do It Anyway

June 21, 2019 DispatchUtahStarre Vartan

NRDC and other environmental and public health groups are suing to stop an extraction project (the first of its kind in the United States) proposed by the Estonian company Enefit.

Happy (?) World Giraffe Day

June 21, 2019 Expert BlogElly Pepper

The species faces an alarming rate of habitat loss, not to mention the trade in giraffe parts, poaching, giraffe skin disease, vehicle collisions, and droughts.

One Key to National Wolf Recovery: Protecting "Dispersers"

June 21, 2019 Expert BlogZack Strong

More than Connections: Developing Village Clean Energy Plans

June 21, 2019 Expert BlogSameer Kwatra

NRDC and the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) conducted household surveys to understand how people use energy and how much time and money they spend to access it.

In Other News, Renewables Just Passed Coal on the Energy Capacity Racetrack

June 21, 2019 Latest NewsUnited StatesJeff Turrentine

We’ve just crossed a major threshold, and renewables' lead is expected only to widen.

Pebble Mine: Into the Lion’s Den

June 20, 2019 Expert BlogTaryn Kiekow Heimer

Junior Canadian mining company Northern Dynasty Minerals – owner of the beleaguered Pebble Mine – held its annual shareholder meeting in Vancouver last week. We were there, too, to deliver a message of relentless opposition to the ill-conceived project.