The City of Chicago introduced an ordinance that provides some measures to restrict new manganese operations within city limits. While the ordinance does not cut the volume of manganese, a dangerous neurotoxin, currently stored and handled by facilities in the city, advocates…
NRDC urged EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt this week to reverse course on his reckless plans to dismantle the Clean Power Plan and replace it with weak limits on power plant carbon pollution.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) just released its year-end 2017 energy figures, detailing electricity production, use, and costs at a state-level. How clean is the energy in your state? NRDC explores which states are leading the pack on wind…
Several experts from Natural Resources Defense Council are scheduled to testify today at the EPA listening session on the repeal of the Clean Power Plan, a rule that established the EPA the first-ever national standards to limit carbon pollution from…
Over 230 mayors from across the United States, including a significant majority of those participating in City Energy Project, strongly oppose EPA’s proposed repeal of Clean Power Plan, the first national limit on carbon emissions for existing power plants.
The primary barrier to modernizing America’s electricity transmission infrastructure is not the bedrock environmental regulations that President Trump is trying to undercut, but a fragmented planning process, Natural Resources Defense Council Attorney Jennifer Chen told Congress today.
Two proposed major gas pipelines could contaminate the drinking water supplies of thousands of Virginians from one end of the Old Dominion to the other, a new report released today shows, twin threats that were insufficiently explored by the Trump…
High-profile disasters on the controversial pipeline prompted the feds to temporarily halt construction, but the state demands a more permanent solution.
