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EPA Clouds Transparency for Environmental Impact Statements

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…

We Need to Keep Our Elders Safe from Climate Disasters

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.

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

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.

Seven Midwest Winners Announced in City Climate Challenge

Expert BlogKatharine McCormick
Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Natural Resources Defense Council and partners today announced that St. Paul, Minneapolis, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Indianapolis, and Columbus are among the 20 winning cities in the Bloomberg American Cities Climate Challenge. These Midwest cities join eight…

New Map Shows Chicago Needs Environmental Justice Reforms

Expert BlogMeleah Geertsma
New map by NRDC shows Chicago's Southwest and Southeast side communities bear the heaviest cumulative burdens from environmental pollution, calling for land use and public health reforms to address industrial areas and other pollution sources.

Report: Water Infrastructure Solutions for Health & Justice

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.

NRDC and Partners Comment on Draft India Cooling Action Plan

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…

Arctic Drilling: Folly Wrapped in Rhetoric

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…