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EPA Clouds Transparency for Environmental Impact Statements

October 29, 2018 Expert BlogScott Slesinger

The Environmental Protection Agency reviews federal agencies's environmental impact statements for quality of the analysis and the scope of the possible environmental harm of a project. The Agency quietly ended a 30-year-old policy of scoring the quality of the work…

What Exactly Do Green Banks Do? This Database Will Tell You

October 29, 2018 Expert BlogBettina Bergöö

While it’s increasingly well known that green banks are a way to mobilize that capital, there hasn’t been a resource for understanding exactly how they do it on the transaction level—until now.

We Need to Keep Our Elders Safe from Climate Disasters

October 29, 2018 Expert BlogJuanita Constible

We owe it to our present and future selves to urgently drive down climate-changing pollution and ready our public health and emergency response systems for the worst-case storms of the future.

Trump Can’t Have It Both Ways on National Monuments

October 29, 2018 Press ReleaseKentucky

President Trump has signed a proclamation declaring Camp Nelson, a Civil War site in Kentucky, a national monument.

Gov. Cooper’s Bold Climate and Clean Energy Agenda Will Benefit North Carolinians

October 29, 2018 Press ReleaseNorth Carolina

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper today announced an executive order with national implications that responds to the threat of climate change with a formidable agenda to build resiliency, sharply reduce greenhouse gas pollution, expand clean energy and create clean energy…

It's Time To Ban Frack Waste in New Jersey

October 26, 2018 Expert BlogRob Friedman

Freeing Towns From the Tyranny of the Automobile: A How-To Guide

October 26, 2018 PerspectivesUnited StatesJeff Turrentine

In his new book, urban planner Jeff Speck equips citizens with the tools they need to make their cities healthier—by making them more walkable.

Trump’s Reckless Delays Will Drive up Climate Damages

October 26, 2018 Expert BlogBen Longstreth

NRDC and Partners Comment on Draft India Cooling Action Plan

October 25, 2018 Expert BlogAnjali Jaiswal, Prima Madan

India’s national plan for addressing cooling requirements is the first of its kind among nations, and is a critical step toward achieving the country’s goal of providing sustainable cooling and thermal comfort for all, while securing environmental and socio-economic benefits…

As Planet Warms, India Develops First National Cooling Plan

October 25, 2018 Expert BlogAnjali Jaiswal, Prima Madan

Report: Water Infrastructure Solutions for Health & Justice

October 25, 2018 Expert BlogBecky Hammer

This week, the Clean Water for All coalition released a new white paper that details how our nation's water infrastructure too often fails our communities and proposes policy solutions to create a national water infrastructure that works for everyone.

Tarantulas the Size of Your Head? Yeah, We Need to Save Them, Too.

October 25, 2018 Latest NewsUnited StatesJason Bittel

Arachnids—even large and aggressive ones like Sri Lanka’s tiger spiders—are important predators keeping ecosystems in check.

Illegal Car Standards Rollback Built on Faulty Reasoning

October 25, 2018 Expert BlogLuke Tonachel, Ben Longstreth

Arctic Drilling: Folly Wrapped in Rhetoric

October 25, 2018 Expert BlogFranz Matzner

Secretary Zinke this week—with great fanfare—approved a drilling operation in Arctic waters just off the coast of Alaska in the Beaufort sea. The Arctic is no place for oil and gas drilling, and this site is not far from one…

Californians: The Environmental Choice Is NO on Prop 6

October 25, 2018 Expert BlogCarter Rubin

Proposition 6 is a harmful proposal that would eliminate billions of dollars in transportation funding that is currently supporting public transportation and being invested in critical repairs to California's bridges and roads.