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NAFTA to Canada: Face the Facts on Tar Sands Tailings Ponds

Expert BlogJames Blair
NAFTA’s Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) has now determined that Canada is missing key facts to support its weak response to our petition, which urged investigation into the lack of enforcement of the country’s Fisheries Act. For years, Canada has…

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.

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…

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.

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.

Avoiding Another California Electricity Crisis

Expert BlogRalph Cavanagh
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. And…