The conclusion of the Paris Agreement has shifted focus from global negotiation to national implementation. The climate finance system needs to evolve in parallel. Direct access cannot be the central tenet of country ownership, particularly for large emerging markets for…
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…
Most big cat populations are doing poorly, declining at alarming rates due to human activities such as habitat destruction, conflicts with human uses like ranching, and illegal trade in big cat parts.
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…
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…
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.
