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Can Hydrogen Help Combat the Climate Crisis?

ExplainerUnited StatesSusan Cosier
Hydrogen hubs across the country seek to fuel high-emission industries with cleaner energy.
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The Biden Administration Protects Millions of Acres of Arctic Alaska

Latest NewsAlaskaJenny Shalant
The new Special Areas Rule in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska could boost biodiversity and empower Indigenous Peoples to defend the lands they’ve relied on for generations.
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“Forever Chemicals” Called PFAS Show Up in Your Food, Clothes, and Home

ExplainerUnited StatesMolly M. Ginty, Courtney Lindwall
These toxic chemicals are so common in consumer products and manufacturing that they’re everywhere—including inside our bodies.

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Climate Change Disclosures: Is 2022 the Year?

Expert BlogUnited StatesTom Zimpleman
The SEC says it is considering requiring climate change disclosures from companies. Here is what those disclosures might look like, and what we should expect them to accomplish.

Fed Nominations: The Important, Empty Seat

Expert BlogUnited StatesSarah Dougherty

Fed nominations filled in some upcoming vacancies—but left the important position running bank supervision empty. This is especially important for managing climate risk and working to avoid a 2008-level financial crisis.

Jobs, Health, Climate: Plugging Wells, Making Polluters Pay

Expert BlogUnited StatesJosh Axelrod

For more than 100 years, the oil and gas industry has been drilling wells across the nation and then, as often as not, walking away. Today Congress took a major step toward fixing that problem.

Green Banks: Taking Climate Finance from Pledge to Project

Expert BlogUnited States, InternationalCarolina Herrera

Local green banks and development finance institutions have a key role to play in channeling public finance to where it’s most needed most and unlocking private capital to jump start new local green markets.

OCC Commits to Next Step on Climate Risk for Banks

Expert BlogUnited StatesSarah Dougherty

The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency committed to putting out guidance on how it will integrate climate risks in its oversight of banks.

Lead Contamination: Imagine a Day Without Water

Expert BlogUnited StatesAngela Guyadeen

Lead contaminated water has wrought devastating effects in communities across the US for far too long, running along the same familiar grooves of inequality and deepening the environmental and health burdens for people of color, who often are overrepresented in…

Time for Next Step on Climate Risk for Banks

Expert BlogUnited StatesRoger Baneman, Sarah Dougherty

Climate risk is just like any emerging financial risk that bank regulators must start to include in their oversight of banks.

US Commits to More International Climate Finance

Expert BlogUnited States, InternationalBrendan Guy, Jake Schmidt

The U.S. needs to urgently mobilize more international climate finance if we are going to have a chance of a successful climate summit in Glasgow this November, and any chance of keeping 1.5°C alive.