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Tar Sands Tailings Ponds: Out of Canada's Control

Expert BlogJames Blair
The Alberta tar sands have become synonymous with global climate change, but their production process wreaks destruction across a huge region of North America’s boreal forest.

Climate Change Literature that Made Waves in 2017

Expert BlogRob Moore
Here's my list of the climate change studies, news reports, and even fiction that made waves in 2017. It's been a tumultuous year for climate impacts ranging from 3 major hurricanes striking the U.S. to a Delaware-sized chunk of Antarctica…

Michigan Energy Package One Year Anniversary

Expert BlogAriana Gonzalez
It’s been one year since the Michigan legislature came together to support a vision for an affordable, reliable, and clean energy future. To celebrate PA 341 and PA 342’s anniversary and recap what has felt like Christmas year round, I…

The Year of Living Courageously

Expert BlogShelley Poticha
It is precisely because 2017 was such a challenging year in our field that I feel a sense of accomplishment and momentum as we face the future of sustainable and resilient communities.

Utilities Important Partners to Achieve Clean Energy Future

Expert BlogSheryl Carter, Ralph Cavanagh
As we look back at a year marked with doses of exasperation and bewilderment, one bright spot is continued progress in America’s clean energy transition, and the jobs and economic development that go with it. Substantial acceleration is still needed…

2017 Progress Toward Climate Goals: Efficient Buildings

Expert BlogDr. David B. Goldstein
The momentum toward energy efficient buildings is transcending the harsh political climate in Washington in 2017, occurring primarily at the state and city levels in the U.S., at the level of nonprofit organizations, and in other countries that are the…

GOP’s Tax Scam Raids America’s Last Wildland

Press ReleaseArctic
Congress has passed a $1.5 trillion package of tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy that opens the way for oil exploration and drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge—America’s last truly wild place.

China’s Delicate Ecological Balancing Act

Expert BlogNing (Lisa) Hua
The government is committed to turning over 2 percent of its land to wildlife—and to helping people adjust to its brand-new national parks system.

This Is How We Stand Up to Trump

NRDC in ActionUnited StatesNicole Greenfield
Meet a handful of the NRDC staffers who resisted Trump’s attacks and defended our environment in 2017—and who won’t stop fighting anytime soon.

Wither TSCA Reform?

Expert BlogDaniel Rosenberg
Those who seek and support meaningful restrictions on toxic chemicals to protect people from cancer, learning and developmental disabilities, and reproductive harm cannot afford to just let the revised TSCA fade away.