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State of the States: Community Solar in the Midwest

October 15, 2018 Expert BlogSamuel Garcia

Nowhere is the rapid adoption of renewable energy resources more urgent than in the Midwest United States, where electric utilities remain heavily reliant on coal.

After Long Delay, Newark Says It Will Provide Water Filters to Some Residents for Lead Contamination

October 15, 2018 Expert BlogNRDC

But the city’s drinking water crisis is far from over.

Untangling the Bleak Future of North Atlantic Right Whales

October 12, 2018 Expert BlogDr. Francine Kershaw

Newark to Offer Water Filters for Lead Contamination—but Many Residents May Remain at Risk

October 12, 2018 Press ReleaseNewark

Citizen Action Drove Newark to Respond, but City Must Do More to Protect Most Vulnerable

Amendment 74 Is a Loser for Coloradans

October 12, 2018 Expert BlogColoradoSam Gilchrist

With 11 carefully crafted words on this year’s ballot, oil and gas companies could swindle residents for generations.

More Qs than As at EPA Oil and Gas Wastewater Meeting

October 12, 2018 Expert BlogBriana Mordick, Alison Kelly

The oil and gas industry wants to dump its wastewater into our rivers and lakes, and Trump’s EPA is supposed to figure out how to let them do it.

Climate Scientists to World: We Have Only 20 Years Before There’s No Turning Back

October 12, 2018 Latest NewsUnited StatesJeff Turrentine

So we’d better get it together and do something NOW.

Powering Forward: Publicly Owned Utilities Are Critical to California’s Energy Efficiency Progress

October 11, 2018 ReportCaliforniaLara Ettenson

California’s publicly owned utilities (POUs) are helping transition the state to a clean energy future.

Public Power Efficiency: Progress but More Savings Possible

October 11, 2018 Expert BlogLara Ettenson

California’s publicly owned utilities have made great strides helping their customers cut electricity waste, saving $4.3 billion in total through lower electricity bills over the past 12 years, which amounts to nearly $3 for every $1 invested after accounting for…

Lake Erie’s New Invasive Species May Be Tiny, But Its Ranks Run Deep

October 11, 2018 DispatchMidwestJason Bittel

Here are billions of new reasons Congress shouldn’t go soft on ballast water.

New Report: California's Publicly Owned Utilities Making Great Energy Efficiency Strides, but Significant Potential Remains to Save Money and Cut Pollution

October 11, 2018 Press ReleaseCalifornia

California consumers saved roughly $4.3 billion on electricity costs and the earth’s atmosphere was spared of more than 2 million metric tons of carbon pollution in the past 12 years, thanks to energy efficiency measures taken by 38 of the…

NRDC Comments: Children’s Health Protection Advisory Cmte.

October 11, 2018 Expert BlogDavid Wallinga, MD

NRDC comments from Drs. Sass and Wallinga on the importance of the EPA Office of Children’s Health Protection in the wake of the Trump attack on science, and the need for the Office to inform EPA’s selection of priority chemicals…

These Newly Discovered Hummingbirds Can Survive High in the Andes—but Habitat Destruction Is Creeping Up on Them

October 11, 2018 Latest NewsInternationalJason Bittel

Gold mining, fires, and farming have these gorgeous little birds teetering on the edge of extinction.

Is the World Bank Ending Financing for Coal? Only in Kosovo…

October 11, 2018 Expert BlogHan Chen

President Jim Kim has announced the World Bank will not finance a coal plant in Kosovo. Unfortunately, the World Bank Group (IFC) will continue funding coal through financial intermediaries.

We’re Running Out of Time

October 11, 2018 Expert BlogInternational, United StatesRhea Suh

The United Nations’ latest climate change report presents the most dire warnings yet. It’s not too late to avert catastrophe—but only if we act quickly and boldly.