It is time to end public investment in new buildings that burn fossil fuels for heating and cooking, locking residents into decades of pollution and undermining California’s climate progress.
LONDON - A new report finds that while governments and financial institutions are laboring hard to unlock the investment needed to meet climate and sustainable development goals, green banks can efficiently and effectively help overcome market barriers and channel investments…
Though Colorado passed ambitious climate legislation last year setting GHG reduction targets, a recent report found that its current trajectory will miss those targets without new, strong commitments.
Every year, New York State spends $1.6 billion on benefits for the oil and gas industry. We must pass legislation to stop subsidizing this dangerous industry.
To achieve New York’s ambitious climate and clean energy goals outlined in the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), New York needs to aggressively reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the transportation sector—the largest source of emissions in the…
Consumers Energy has an important regulatory filing coming up that is going to impact every single person living in Michigan. In the coming months, the utility will file their next long-term energy plan—known as an Integrated Resource Plan or “IRP”.
Ameren Missouri recently released an ambitious long-term strategic plan that will significantly cut carbon emissions and invest in renewable energy resources like wind, solar and storage.
Zero Net Energy embraces several related but distinct goals. This blog identifies four levels of increasing ambition, like rungs on a ladder and suggests that Strategic Energy Management can be the process for moving up the ladder over time.
The coronavirus pandemic has illustrated the drastic inequities in our society, and it’s decimated the workforce across the board. More than 20 million people are unemployed, most of them Black and Latino. Losses through June exceeded 400,000 jobs across the…
WASHINGTON— This year’s global pandemic, recession and national uprising against racist police violence highlight the stark need for the country to address climate change with broad solutions that put racial, economic, and environmental justice at their core, the co-authors of…
Before the pandemic, power sector emissions fell eight percent as the economy grew. Coal generation continued to decline as renewable energy expanded and more corporations committed to net-zero carbon emission goals.
Ann Arbor passed its transformative Carbon Neutrality Plan, making it a climate action leader in the Midwest. The Plan describes how the city will achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2030.
On April 30, 2020, New York State marked a major milestone in the fight for public health and the environment when one of two nuclear reactors at Indian Point nuclear power plant, located 24 miles north of New York City…
