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How Widespread Logging in Canada Is Escaping Scrutiny

Expert BlogCourtenay Lewis
In recent years, Canada has had the third highest rate of intact forest landscape loss in the world, behind only Russia and Brazil. Yet widespread logging in Canada has managed to fly under the radar of international scrutiny.

Bernhardt Budget Starves Wildlife Despite Extinction Crisis

Expert BlogNora Apter
While leaders in Congress warned about the dire state of wildlife in the United States and globally, Acting Interior Secretary and Trump nominee David Bernhardt touted devastating budget cuts to the agencies responsible for wildlife conservation.

New Mexico Passes Bill to Plug Cars into Clean Electricity

Expert BlogMax Baumhefner, Noah Long
Consumer research reveals that people want to buy electric vehicles (EVs), but often hesitate to do so because of a lack of charging infrastructure. Aside from Tesla’s superchargers, there are only six public fast-charging locations in all of New Mexico…

Trump Budget Shortchanges Sustainable Agriculture

Expert BlogAllison Johnson
The Trump Administration’s 2020 budget proposal would cut over $2 billion from federal food and farming programs. It’s a recipe for exacerbating the rural economic crisis and widespread pollution, not a healthy and resilient food system.

New York Lawmakers Move to Tackle Food Waste

Expert BlogMargaret Brown
The New York State Senate included the Food Donation and Food Scrap Recycling Act in their one house budget proposal—taking a critical leadership role in both addressing climate change and getting more food to hungry New Yorkers.

Trump Sage Grouse Policy is Industry Giveaway

Press ReleaseUnited States
Acting Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt today is finalizing the agency’s plan for managing the greater sage grouse, among other species, on some 11 million acres of Western lands.

A Bar Too Low: National Wolf Delisting

Expert BlogUnited StatesDr. Sylvia Fallon

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been trying to cut wolves loose for the better part of a decade—and now the Trump administration is letting it happen.

A Clean Future: Uniting Behind Beneficial Electrification

Expert BlogDerek Murrow
Beneficial electrification is an idea that’s united the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and America’s Electric Cooperatives (NRECA). While we don’t agree on everything, our groups are working together to find ways to make the electric grid cleaner and using…