As Trump’s EPA delays enforcement on air pollution violations in Chicago’s Southeast Side, community and environmental groups have penned a letter urging Mayor Rahm Emanuel to step in to protect residents from neurotoxic manganese near neighborhoods and schools. The letter also calls on…
A coalition of conservation and tribal citizen groups today filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California challenging the Trump Administration’s suspension of the Bureau of Land Management’s Waste Prevention Rule and seeking to…
In a gift to the wealthiest Americans—and at the expense of our environment—President Trump is trying to push his reckless tax scam through before Christmas.
Today, on behalf of the Natural Resources Defense Council, I wrote the National Marine Fisheries Service to let them know that if they didn’t take final action on our request that they list the Gulf of Mexico Bryde’s whale (Balaenoptera…
Congress is expected to vote as early as Tuesday on a $1.5-trillion package of tax cuts, mostly for corporations and wealthy individuals, that would saddle our children with unconscionable debt and expose irreplaceable Arctic wilderness to industrial ruin for the…
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt today issued an “advance notice” soliciting public comment on whether the agency should come up with a replacement plan after repealing the Clean Power Plan.
This webinar covers best practices for financing tough-to-finance energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in municipalities and local governments. Two years ago, the Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank’s (RIIB) mandate and mission was expanded to include financing clean energy projects. This…
