SAN FRANCISCO – On January 23, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral argument challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of the medically-important antibiotic streptomycin as a pesticide on citrus crops. The lawsuit, brought by farmworker and…
The Advanced Clean Cars Standards can help states mitigate climate change, improve air quality and health, and make the total cost of car ownership lower and more predictable.
Expert BlogIllinois, Chicago, United StatesThomas Siafa Jr., Valeria Rincon
A new report finds that Chicagoans can save roughly $11,000 to $24,000 over a 20-year time period by ditching expensive gas and fully electrifying their homes.
DispatchSt. James Parish, LouisianaNicole Greenfield
Residents of St. James Parish are fighting to boot harmful petrochemical plants from this majority-Black community—and hoping to usher in more sustainable industries like solar.
Under the state’s new law, we’ll be able to see where, and to what extent, people struggle to afford utility bills and suffer devastating impacts like shutoffs and tax lien sales.
The IPCC sends a clear and final warning that we must rapidly cut emissions to avert climate disaster. It also emphasizes that burning trees for bioenergy is a very risky way to do this—and may not even work at all.
As Canada prepares to release its plan for achieving its climate targets, scientists from around the world have warned that Canada’s logging practices are incompatible with climate leadership and global climate goals.
Canada has near-finalized an ill-named “Conservation Agreement” with the province of Ontario, whose current government has attracted international attention for slashing environmental protections while promising to ramp up widespread industrial logging.
Expert BlogInternational, United States, CanadaJennifer Skene
As countries begin implementing the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use, success will depend on embracing a truly global framework that looks beyond forests’ utility.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Speaking at the CERAWeek energy conference, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan today unveiled an integrated power plant pollution strategy. He said it “allows us to tackle the full array of threats that power plants pose to…
The latest report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirms what housing advocates and activists have long known: healthy, decent, affordable, sustainable housing must be at the core of the climate transition.
