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Clean Electricity in States Across the United States: The Impact of the Inflation Reduction Act and Carbon Pollution Standards on States’ Electricity Futures

April 5, 2024 Fact SheetGeorgia, Michigan, North Carolina, PennsylvaniaAmanda Levin

ISO New England's Transmission Planning Win

April 5, 2024 Expert BlogEastClaire Lang-Ree, Cullen Howe

New England joins the all-stars with forward looking, scenario based transmission planning. 

Reducing Water Loss Requires Upgrading Aging Ag Water Infrastructure

April 5, 2024 Expert BlogCaliforniaArohi Sharma

California’s ag sector will continue to struggle with unsustainable water use until it addresses broader inefficiencies across its aging water delivery system. Upgrades to California’s water delivery system, such as lining canals to reduce seepage, pressurizing water delivery pipes, installing…

Washington State Passes Cutting-edge Policies to Reduce Climate Pollution

April 4, 2024 Expert BlogWashingtonGiulia C.S. Good Stefani

These nation-leading improvements will be a large step forward in climate solutions.

EPA Issues Awards for Crucial Clean Energy Finance Program

April 4, 2024 Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.

WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced the award winners for two of three grant competitions it held last year to distribute funds from a $27 billion financing program created by the Inflation Reduction Act known as the…

EPA Announces Awards for a National Clean Energy Finance Network

April 4, 2024 Expert BlogUnited StatesAdam Kent

EPA announces $20 billion in competitive awards under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to launch a National Clean Energy Finance Network.

Removing Forest “Waste” Degrades Ecosystem Structure and Function

April 3, 2024 Expert BlogCanadaDr. Julee Boan

We must use our collective intelligence to ensure that our forest management systems are not contributing to further degradation or compromising forest ecosystem recovery. 

Climate Change Undermines Healthy Aging

April 2, 2024 Expert BlogUnited StatesDr. Vijay Limaye

Climate change poses unique and dangerous challenges for older people.

SPP Misses the Mark on Resource Accreditation Again

April 2, 2024 Expert BlogUnited StatesNatalie McIntire

The Southwest Power Pool’s latest proposal once again downplays the risk of fossil fuel plant failures while it undervalues the advantages of wind power.

New Yorkers Now Protected with Home Flooding History Disclosure

April 1, 2024 Expert BlogNew YorkJoel Scata

Blake Plateau Mapping Q&A with Dr. Derek Sowers

April 1, 2024 Expert BlogEast, United StatesLeysha Caraballo

Earlier this year, scientists published a comprehensive map of the world’s most expansive cold-water coral mound province.

Lines We Don’t Want to Cross: Synthetic Chemicals and Plastics Threaten Planetary Health

April 1, 2024 Fact SheetInternationalRenée Sharp, Dr. Veena Singla, Shannon Goff

Smart Siting of Offshore Wind Protects Right Whales in Gulf of Maine

March 29, 2024 Expert BlogMaine, EastDr. Francine Kershaw

The Biden administration is advancing offshore wind in areas of the Gulf of Maine that pose a lower risk to endangered North Atlantic right whales.

EPA Issues Truck Pollution Standards

March 29, 2024 Press ReleaseUnited States

The Environmental Protection Agency released standards to reduce tailpipe emissions from new heavy-duty trucks. These final standards follow a recent federal strategy to build out a national zero emission freight corridor network, which will put the nation on the road…

EPA’s Latest Heavy Duty Vehicle Rule Does Not Meet the Moment

March 29, 2024 Expert BlogUnited StatesGuillermo A. Ortiz

EPA’s latest rule for heavy duty-vehicles illustrates why the nation needs a vision for what a zero-emission freight system can and should be.