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Dear HUD Secretary-Nominee, People Are at the Center of Housing and the Environment

January 11, 2017 Expert BlogShelley Poticha

Flint Drinking Water Fails to Meet Federal Standards, Yet Michigan Ready to Close the Case on the Water Crisis

January 11, 2017 Press Release

CHICAGO – Michigan officials’ recent assertions that Flint’s water system is in compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act are false; the data simply do not show that the system’s lead pipes have fully recovered from the damage caused by…

5 Reasons Why Rex Tillerson Shouldn’t Be Secretary of State

January 11, 2017 Expert BlogJake Schmidt

The recent retired head of ExxonMobil, Rex Tillerson, has been proposed to be the next Secretary of State. This position is the U.S. top diplomat representing U.S. interests around the world. It has also been a position that has been…

2016 Efficiency Standards to Create $75 Billion in Savings

January 11, 2017 Expert BlogLauren Urbanek

World’s Oldest Orca Dies, Pod Without its Compass

January 11, 2017 Expert BlogUnited States, Washington, Oregon, CaliforniaGiulia C.S. Good Stefani

New York State Plans 2400 MW of Offshore Wind by 2030

January 10, 2017 Expert BlogKit Kennedy

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that the Empire State plans to build enough offshore wind power capacity by 2030 to power 1.25 million homes.

Rusty Patched Bumble Bee Listed as Endangered Species

January 10, 2017 Press ReleaseChicago

First Native Bee in Continental U.S. to be Protected by Law

Illinois Takes the Lead on Lead

January 10, 2017 Press ReleaseChicago

School Testing Bill Protects the Most Vulnerable from Contaminated Water

Protecting the Health and Safety of Our Children

January 10, 2017 Expert BlogHenry Henderson

The Flint water crisis, which came into the primetime spotlight this year, prompted many communities to take a harder look at the safety of their own water. In response, Chicago Public Schools began voluntarily testing for lead at all public…

Does Trump Know Scott Pruitt Fought Against Beautiful Air?

January 10, 2017 Expert BlogJohn Walke

New York’s Ocean Leadership

January 10, 2017 Expert BlogAlison Chase

Thar She Blows! New England Harnesses the Power Gusting Over the Atlantic

January 10, 2017 DispatchMassachusetts, United StatesClara Chaisson

The U.S. offshore wind industry got spinning in 2016. Will 2017 keep it going?

Closing Indian Point Reduces Risk of Nuclear Accidents

January 9, 2017 Expert BlogDr. Matthew McKinzie

Gov Delivers: Indian Point to Close, Clean Energy Advances

January 9, 2017 Expert BlogJackson Morris, Kit Kennedy

The troubled and aging Indian Point nuclear power plant, located 24 miles north of New York City, will be closed by April 2021, with no increase in carbon emissions, thanks to strong advocacy by New York's Governor Cuomo, other elected…

New York’s Troubled Indian Point Nuclear Plant to Close

January 9, 2017 Press Release

NEW YORK (Jan. 9, 2016) --The troubled and aging Indian Point nuclear power plant located 24 miles north of New York City will be shuttered by April 2021 under a negotiated agreement announced today by Governor Andrew Cuomo. The plan…