Michigan Governor Rick Snyder today announced that the state would stop providing free bottled water to Flint residents. Flint’s tap water contamination crisis was created by city and state government decisions that caused lead to leach out from aging pipes…
We can replace the four lower Snake River dams’ power with clean resources that provide superior system reliability—easily meeting peak and off-peak loads at low cost, while keeping greenhouse gas emissions at current (or lower) levels, a new study released…
From dramatic wildfires in the west to devastating hurricanes in Texas, Puerto Rico, and elsewhere, once-in-a-lifetime storms are becoming the new normal. We need to have strong and resilient communities – especially buildings-- that can weather the increasing number of…
It used to be that using electricity for things like heating water and rooms was more expensive and dirtier than using natural gas or other fuels, so programs to promote switching to electric technologies a generation ago generally didn’t benefit…
One day after EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s Twitter account took credit for the Obama administration efforts to fix the Flint drinking water crisis, press reports revealed that Pruitt also exploited a provision of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act to…
The Environmental Protection Agency is moving to weaken landmark clean car standards designed to slash carbon pollution and save drivers $92 billion at the pump.
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