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Zinke to Oil and Gas Industry: Let 'Er Rip

Expert BlogMeleah Geertsma
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has just proposed to eviscerate the Bureau of Land Management’s (“BLM”) standards adopted a little over a year ago to stop the rampant climate pollution and loss of taxpayer revenue from oil and gas operations on…

New Issue Brief: How Green Banks Assess and Report Impacts

Expert BlogBettina Bergöö, Doug Sims, Sarah Dougherty
Green banks are experimenting with different approaches to evaluate their impact—including their contribution to market transformation—and sharing their findings with the public.

Trump’s Budget Is a Blueprint for Destruction

Expert BlogRhea Suh
The $4.4 trillion proposal slashes environmental and health protections, ignores climate change, and sacrifices our public lands and waters to fossil fuel companies—all while making the national debt soar.

A Better Way to Encourage Efficient New Homes

Expert BlogDr. David B. Goldstein
Utilities now have a new tool to promote energy efficient new home construction. It encourages builders to approach zero net energy use in homes by focusing on the HERS Index, an efficiency rating for houses that is analogous to a…

Trump’s Budget Continues to Devastate our Common Home

Expert BlogBrendan Guy
Trump’s budget not only abandons America’s leadership on the global stage in combatting one of the most urgent challenges facing humanity, but abandons our children at home to the mounting dangers of a changing climate.

CARB Honors David Hawkins, NRDC’s Clean Air & Climate Champ

Expert BlogDavid Doniger
At its 50th anniversary celebration in Sacramento, the California Air Resources Board today awarded the Natural Resources Defense Council’s David Hawkins its highest honor, the Haagen-Smit Clean Air Award, in recognition of Hawkins’ nearly half-century of leadership on clean air…

Disaster Aid Is Part of Bi-Partisan Budget Bill

Expert BlogRob Moore
A Bi-Partisan budget bill includes some encouraging provisions that should improve rebuilding efforts in the wake of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria. And it does not include two poison pills that the House had included in the Disaster Supplemental passed…