Like Scott Pruitt before him, the current acting administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has spent the last six months rolling back environmental and health protections.
A major cost to the power grid is handling peak load—making sure that there is enough power available when it’s needed most. When consumers use less electricity, it’s much like having a power plant produce more power. Because of this…
President Trump today nominated Andrew Wheeler to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. The former coal lobbyist has been acting administrator since former EPA chief Scott Pruitt resigned under an ethical cloud last July.
The Natural Resources Defense Council and other environmental groups ripped into the Department of Energy today for its plan to give itself the authority to abandon or improperly dispose of high-level radioactive waste. More than 100 million gallons of this…
Climate change negatively affects the health of our youngest generations, and these impacts are made worse by factors like race, socioeconomic status, and geographic location.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf today announced an unprecedented executive order that puts climate change on the front-burner and protects the health of Pennsylvanians. For the first time in Keystone State history, the Executive Order will set statewide targets to slash…
After twice delaying action to gather more demographic information, the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board today voted to approve an air pollution permit that Dominion Energy needs to build a gas compressor station in the African American community of Union…
Our public servants undertake many tasks that we don’t often notice: They clear ice off the roads in national forests and ensure the local toxic Superfund site is being cleaned up; they inspect our drinking water systems and make sure…
Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Natural Resources Defense Council today announced St. Petersburg as the 20th winning city in the Bloomberg American Cities Climate Challenge (ACCC), a $70 million dollar program designed to accelerate ambitious U.S. cities’ efforts to tackle climate…
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