WASHINGTON – With Congress headed to a fall showdown over the federal budget, a new poll carries an unmistakable message: Americans strongly oppose cuts to funding for environmental protections, clean energy and climate solutions, and investments in transit infrastructure.
A divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit dealt a setback yesterday to the EPA’s efforts to cut emissions of the powerful heat-trapping gases called hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). The court’s ruling scrambles a wide…
WASHINGTON – A new report by the Natural Resources Defense Council highlights the tremendous economic and environmental benefits of some two dozen American parklands and waters. There is robust public support for protecting these national monuments. In the coming weeks…
With mass-market electric vehicles (EVs) like the Chevrolet Bolt EV and the Tesla Model 3 under production, the auto industry is faced with a challenge and an opportunity to collaborate with another big player—the electric industry.
WASHINGTON – The Department of Interior took steps to invalidate key pieces of a locally-driven plan developed across 11 states to protect the greater sage grouse, an iconic bird surviving on just half of its historic Western range. U.S. Secretary…
New York City is approximately 72% impervious. With 218 square miles of paved area—surfaces such as parking lots, building rooftops, streets, and sidewalks—water has nowhere to go when it rains but run down the streets and into gutters, collecting an…
Los Angelenos spend a staggering average of 104 hours per year sitting in traffic—and this means transportation is the leading source of climate change in California.
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