Following is a statement from Dawone Robinson, Northeast/Mid-Atlantic Director of Energy Affordability at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): “Governor Northam can no longer lead the Commonwealth of Virginia and should step down knowing that Lt. Governor Fairfax will be…
Low-carbon energy technologies (renewable energy and energy efficiency) are considered essential to achieve climate change mitigation goals, so a rapid deployment is needed. However there is a significant financing gap and many policymakers are concerned that investment for the large-scale…
Green Banks have traditionally used public sector capital to leverage increased private sector investment. The collective capital formation driven by that intersection has been impressive, but the pace of climate change is driving the need to expand the investment capital…
House Speaker Pelosi aptly calls climate change “the existential threat of our time.” Here's an ambitious clean energy and climate action agenda for the new Congress.
More and more European cities are effectively banning automobiles from their city centers—and it seems to be working out just fine for local businesses.
In the small city of Great Falls, residents push back against a Big Ag plant that would consume 3.5 million gallons of water—and produce 102,995 pounds of waste—per day.
The latest long term energy forecast from the EIA signals that an economy based on low-cost, clean energy is achievable, but it also highlights just how far off-track we are from securing a climate-safe future. Renewable energy resources are projected…
Mining can result in horrific human and environmental tragedy. Mining disasters also highlight the hollow promises companies make—that they can somehow engineer a “safe” mine.
The yearly count of the eastern population of North American monarch butterflies increased dramatically this year. Spanning 6.05 hectares of oyamel forests, the monarch population more than doubled from last year’s 2.48 hectare measurement and is larger than it has…
