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Basic Fairness: Access to Water & Sewer Service in Michigan

Expert BlogLarry Levine
In this country, in this day and age, it’s shameful that our public water systems often struggle to provide safe, sufficient, affordable, accessible water for the people those systems were built to serve.

Smart Manufacturing Helps Reduce Industrial Emissions

Expert BlogDan West
Most industrial energy efficiency programs target large manufacturers, which represent about 10 percent of all manufacturers and account for half of total industrial energy demand. But there still aren’t many programs out there to help small and medium manufacturers save…

EPA Action Likely to Weaken Safeguards for Formaldehyde

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Environmental Protection Agency today announced a list of chemicals it intends to prioritize for evaluation. Far from being a sign of progress, the move will almost certainly result in weaker protections for formaldehyde, a known human carcinogen.

EPA Announces 20 Toxic Chemicals It Won’t Protect Us From

Expert BlogDaniel Rosenberg
EPA just announced the next 20 "high priority" chemicals—including formaldehyde—that it will review under TSCA. Given the Trump EPA's record, there is every reason to believe that the Agency won't protect us from these chemicals, and will limit the ability…

Proposal to Cut Efficiency Budgets Makes No Sense

Expert BlogLauren Urbanek
The Trump administration rolled out its detailed Fiscal Year 2020 budget for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) this week, and once again, it contains enormous cuts for the federal energy efficiency and clean energy programs that affect the lives…

Yet Another Delusional Presidential Budget for DOE

Expert BlogJackie Wong, Arjun Krishnaswami
President Trump has once again proposed disastrous cuts to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s clean energy innovation budget, even though Congress ignored his similar budget proposal last year and instead provided increased research and development (R&D) funding. Congress should…

Clean Energy Jobs Still Lead, But Worker Diversity Needed

Expert BlogLara Ettenson
Government leaders looking to put people to work should set their sights on policies that boost clean energy―especially energy efficiency. That’s the lesson of a new, comprehensive report that found industries whose products cut energy waste are leading the entire…

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.

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.

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.