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Two Illinois Bills Address Distribution of Volkswagen Funds

April 6, 2018 Expert BlogAloysius Makalinao

Advocates called out the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) for deciding to allocate the majority of funds towards replacing dirty fossil fuel locomotives, ferries, and tugs with little towards electrification investments in a rushed process that was closed off to…

Pennsylvania Driving Toward an Electrifying Win

April 6, 2018 Expert BlogNoah Garcia, Mark Szybist

Groups Take NYCHA Back to Court Over Rampant Mold Problem

April 6, 2018 Expert BlogSara Imperiale

For too long, NYCHA tenants have suffered under the agency’s culture of mismanagement and neglect—paying the price in their health and quality of life.

Michigan Governor’s Decision to End Bottled Water for Flint Deeply Troubling

April 6, 2018 Press ReleaseMichigan

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…

Caribou Protections Backslide Threatens Canada’s Reputation

April 5, 2018 Expert BlogJosh Axelrod

Commit to Grow Organic

April 5, 2018 Expert BlogAllison Johnson

Big buyer investments are bringing more organic to the plate.

Iran’s Brown Bears Are Closer to the Edge Than People Have Realized or, Perhaps, Cared

April 5, 2018 Latest NewsInternationalJason Bittel

By miscounting population numbers, wildlife managers may unwittingly count out a future for species on the brink.

Public Outcry May Have Saved National Parks from Zinke’s Dramatic Fee Hikes

April 5, 2018 Latest NewsUnited StatesCourtney Lindwall

Americans remind the Interior secretary that this land is our land (and we should be able to afford visiting it).

Another Crack in the Snake River Dams

April 4, 2018 Expert BlogGiulia C.S. Good Stefani

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…

The Atikamekw’s Fight to Protect Their Land and Way of Life

April 4, 2018 Expert BlogAnthony Swift

The Climate is Changing. So Why Aren’t State Building Codes?

April 4, 2018 Expert BlogLauren Urbanek

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…

A Village in Ecuador’s Amazon Fights for Life as Oil Wells Move In

April 4, 2018 DispatchEcuadorPeter Korn

Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park is home to indigenous people who live in near-total isolation from the rest of the world—and wish to remain that way

Trump’s EPA Rolls Back Landmark Clean Car Standards

April 3, 2018 Expert BlogNRDC

Scott Pruitt's latest move will speed up climate change, squander innovation, and dirty our air.

UK to Introduce Legislation Banning Its Ivory Market!

April 3, 2018 Expert BlogElly Pepper

This is much-needed good news for elephants, especially coming from a country that has long played a role in the international ivory trade.

Electric Uses Are Important Part of Our Clean Energy Future

April 3, 2018 Expert BlogSheryl Carter

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…