NRDC, Sustainable FERC Project, and 15 other organizations wrote the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today arguing that Rick Perry's warning of an impending energy resilience nightmare is just that: a dream out of touch with reality.
The New England power grid is growing more reliable and resilient thanks to state renewable energy and energy efficiency laws that are reducing the region’s dependence on natural gas and other imported fossil fuels.
How would you like living in a home with a dramatically reduced electric bill? That will be a reality for most new homes in California starting in 2020, thanks to a new building energy code adopted today by the California…
Major Japanese life insurance companies are finally starting to recognize that investments in new coal-fired power generation projects are both financially and environmentally irresponsible.
Montana voters support removing the Intake Diversion Dam on the Yellowstone River and replacing it with a pump alternative, according to a recent poll conducted by Tulchin Research.
As we were about to celebrate the 100th anniversary of this landmark conservation law, the Trump administration decided to gut the MBTA by limiting its reach to the purposeful or intentional killing of birds.
New homes and buildings built in Pennsylvania will soon use less energy and have substantially lower utility bills, thanks to a huge leap in the efficiency of the Pennsylvania statewide building energy code announced last week.
The adage about history not repeating itself but rhyming is inescapable in the California debate about potentially ruinous financial liabilities facing electric utilities in the aftermath of disasters worsened by climate change, such as last fall’s wildfires and mudslides.
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NRDC has been fighting for changes to the national Lead and Copper Rule as well as to the rule used in Michigan—changes long overdue for all communities, but especially for Flint.
Iceland’s only fin whaling company Hvalur hf is set to resume its controversial hunt of endangered fin whales after a two-year break. Its 2018 whaling season will open on June 10th with the highest quotas in decades.
A new report by three prominent energy experts correctly says that the focus of "resilience" should be on electricity customer needs. Those customer needs lie primarily on the distribution system—not the high-power grid.
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