Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today released a nation-leading energy efficiency initiative that will cut customers’ bills and power plant emissions, create thousands of new jobs, and lay the foundation to meet New York’s clean energy and climate pollution reduction goals.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s long-awaited energy efficiency plan announced today for New York through 2025 will more than triple the amount of energy that utilities will help their customers save and includes additional pioneering elements such as initial funding to train…
Health and environmental groups defeated an effort to exclude the use of expert scientific findings to add the controversial chemical glyphosate to California's list of carcinogens today. Monsanto had been seeking to force California to remove the herbicide from the…
Developed in a highly partisan process that virtually shut out Democratic voices, the bill is a massive gift to the pesticide industry and other special interests.
The House Republican Farm Bill would undermine protections for public health, make it harder for struggling families to put food on the table, and weaken environmental protections for endangered species, forests, and working lands.
The Senate is expected to vote today on the nomination of Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.), the president’s pick to lead the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as its administrator.
One hundred seventy members of Congress led by Sen. Tom Udall of New Mexico and Kathy Castor of Florida today introduced a congressional resolution of disapproval calling for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt to resign over his ethics lapses…
Costa Rica, known worldwide for its environmental stewardship, is the region’s greenest nation. Surprisingly, some nations that have experienced political turmoil recently, such as Venezuela and Bolivia, are near the top of the list globally when it comes to protection…
A new report concludes the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative has helped grow Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states' economies and created jobs at the same time as it produces climate benefits.
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