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NAFTA Ruling Forces Investigation of Tar Sands Tailing Pond Pollution

Press ReleaseCanada
The North American Free Trade Agreement’s Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) has called for an investigation of Canada’s failure to enforce the nation’s Fisheries Act with respect to toxic materials leaking from massive tar sands tailings ponds. The ruling comes…

State Clean Energy Laws Make New England Grid More Resilient

Expert BlogBruce Ho
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.

CA Building Code Takes Big Step Toward Net-Zero Energy

Expert BlogPierre Delforge
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…

What’s Resilience? It’s Not More Fuel or Higher Prices, PJM

Expert BlogJennifer Chen
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission early this year rejected the Department of Energy proposal that would have further subsidized coal and nuclear power plants, and instead opened a new proceeding to investigate the concept of resilience on the interstate transmission…

Worried About Grid Resilience? Don’t—You Can Sleep Well

Expert BlogGillian Giannetti
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.

Zinke’s Doubling Down on Dismantling Bird Protections

Expert BlogKatie Umekubo
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 Buildings in Pennsylvania to Leap Forward in Efficiency

Expert BlogLauren Urbanek
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.