Today marks the start of National Public Health Week, a time to both celebrate the work of health professionals and to focus on how we can make our country healthier.
In this April 2016 interim report, NRDC, CEEW and IREDA explain that a green bond is a fixed-income financial instrument for raising capital through the debt market, like traditional corporate bonds. The key difference is that green bonds raise funds for projects with…
Si bien el mercado de energías limpias ha crecido significativamente en Chile a lo largo de los últimos años, siguen existiendo barreras a la incorporación de estas tecnologías.
Frente a esta situación es que los bancos verdes y los bonos…
There is a broad consensus on the need for clean energy to play a growing role in Chile’s electric grid. Yet, despite significant growth in the country’s clean energy market, barriers remain to the deployment of many of these technologies…
Kudos go out today to New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state’s legislators for incorporating consumer rebates toward the purchase of new electric vehicles (EVs) into the state’s annual budget for the first time.
For nearly four months, a massive leak at Southern California Gas Company’s Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility in Los Angeles pumped nearly 100,000 tons of methane into the atmosphere – constituting the largest methane leak U.S. history. It took…
For decades now, the principal argument against taking action to mitigate climate change is that we can’t afford it. While this narrative has always distorted the truth relative to the costs of inaction (what we truly can’t afford), it is…
WASHINGTON (March 31, 2016) – The Natural Resources Defense Council and Center for Food Safety, on behalf of four other public health and environmental organizations, sued the Food and Drug Administration today to force it to act on a petition…
WASHINGTON (March 30, 2016) – The Natural Resources Defense Council and Greenpeace Canada today called on the Quebec government to reject a bid by logging companies to build nearly 50 miles of access roads into the heart of Canada’s Broadback…
More than 2.5 million Americans work in clean energy, according to a new study released yesterday from the national nonpartisan business group Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), an NRDC affiliate.
