North Carolina businesses sent a letter to state lawmakers opposing a Republican bill that would undo the state’s progress to build a clean energy economy and assure energy affordability.
A federal court has ruled that the Interior Department's approval of a massive offshore oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico violated federal environmental law.
Experts highlight that an integrated approach can streamline action for impact at scale for building resilience to extreme heat and providing access to sustainable cooling.
A new report by NRDC exposes the catastrophic loss of federal protections for wetlands across the United States following the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision in Sackett v. EPA.
Expert BlogInternational, United Kingdom, South Korea, Sweden, Mississippi, California, WashingtonElly Pepper, Rita Vaughan Frost
This International Day of Forests, we can celebrate the increasingly widespread recognition that the biomass industry is a bad bet for our forests and our communities.
The U.S. Department of Energy granted conditional authorization for the Calcasieu Pass 2 LNG export terminal today, granting the project conditional authority to export LNG to non-free trade agreement countries.
The EPA is preparing to gut its science office—the Office of Research and Development—and lay off more than 1,000 scientists, including chemists, biologists, and toxicologists.
Let’s not forget what America looked like before we had the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Our rivers caught on fire, our air was full of smog, and it stank (literally).
The state Water Quality Committee advanced a proposed rule on PFAS pollution that would allow corporate polluters to self-regulate and avoid penalties for dumping “forever chemicals” into surface waters that provide drinking water for more than 3.5 million North Carolinians.
Over his decades in public service, he played a pivotal role in advancing policies to protect our oceans and public lands, strengthen tribal consultation, and address climate change. His impact will be felt for generations to come.
The Trump EPA moved to cancel $2 billion in grants to help communities burdened by pollution and will shutter every environmental justice office nationwide.
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