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St. Louis Building Code Update: Raising the Roof (Floor)

Expert BlogMissouriKatharine McCormick

St. Louis adopted the 2018 IECC, or International Energy Conservation Code, a model code that creates a floor for energy performance in new buildings. Because the IECC update addresses a wide range of energy uses in both commercial and residential…

Court Orders Seafood Import Ban to Save Mexico’s Vaquita Porpoise

Press ReleaseMexico
Responding to a lawsuit filed by conservation groups, the U.S. Court of International Trade today ordered the Trump administration to ban seafood imports from Mexico caught with gillnets that kill the critically endangered vaquita porpoise. As few as 15 vaquita…

Using More Renewable Energy by Managing Curtailment

Expert BlogSameer Kwatra
As India seeks to integrate a growing share of renewables in its electricity grid, curtailment, defined as a “reduction in the output of a power generator from what it could otherwise produce given available resources (e.g., wind or sunlight), typically…

Pebble Mine—Preposterous

Expert BlogJoel Reynolds
Northern Dynasty Minerals’ long-delayed permit application lacks credible plan to develop mine, protect salmon, address significant risks, or avoid bankruptcy.

Cutting It Close: How Unsustainable Logging in Canada’s Boreal Forest Threatens Indigenous Rights, Wildlife, and the Global Climate

ReportCanadaJennifer Skene, Josh Axelrod, Anthony Swift, Courtenay Lewis, Shelley Vinyard
Runaway logging in the globally-important forest violates the rights of Indigenous Peoples, devastates wildlife, and jeopardizes drinking water sources. It also puts the entire world at risk by releasing more than 26 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the…

NRDC Report Calls on Canada to Protect the Boreal Forest

Expert BlogAnthony Swift
The true cost of the paper towel roll in your kitchen and the box of tissues in your living room is far more than you might think. Many of the items we use on a daily basis—and throw away after…