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The Supreme Court Ends Chevron Deference—What Now?

ExplainerUnited StatesJeff Turrentine
For one, the ability of federal agencies like the EPA to set rules and enforce environmental protections now shrinks.
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It’s Time to Talk about Climate Anxiety

ExplainerUnited StatesJenny Shalant
Don’t bottle it up—openly acknowledging your climate anxiety and grief gives you the power to heal and move forward.
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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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A Big Step Toward Clean Transportation in the Eastern U.S.

Expert BlogBruce Ho
A dozen eastern states and the city of Washington, D.C. are taking a huge step forward in making their communities more prosperous and livable as they outline a plan to transform the region’s beleaguered transportation.

Bipartisan Group of States Take Steps to Cut Truck Pollution

Expert BlogDr. Simon Mui, Patricio Portillo
Top environmental officials from 8 states and DC took a bold step towards protecting our nation’s air and cutting carbon emissions from the transportation sector by signing a joint agreement to accelerate the electric truck and bus market.

Eastern States Continue to Step Up on Climate

Expert BlogBruce Ho
As the Trump administration attempts to derail climate action, a dozen states in the East and others are refusing to give in. Their leadership was critical in 2019 and will continue to be needed in 2020.

First-of-Kind Study Shows Electric Trucks Are a Triple-Win

Expert BlogDr. Simon Mui
The study demonstrates that electric trucks and buses could meet California’s climate and air quality targets, cost the least to own and operate, and provide the greatest job and economic benefits to the state.

The Hidden Cost of Cyber Monday

Expert BlogPatricio Portillo
Cyber Monday and e-commerce have come to dominate the retail industry contributing to a rise in delivery emissions. Policymakers need to step up and establish rules to slash emissions from the trucking industry even while online retail grows.

Lawsuit Wants to Lock Us Into Polluting Fuels

Expert BlogPierre Delforge
With a growing number of communities in California and nationwide passing local ordinances to transition new buildings to clean energy, the oil and gas industry is desperately seeking ways to thwart the movement and keep the market locked into using…

Chicago to Tackle Congestion and Transportation Inequity

Expert BlogStefan Schaffer
Mayor Lightfoot recently introduced one of the country’s most ambitious and equitably structured proposals to price ride-hailing trips, underscoring the city’s commitment to reducing congestion and investing in high-quality transit service for residents all across Chicago.

Rural Communities Want Clean Transportation, Too

Expert BlogBruce Ho
There’s good news for transportation sufferers from a new Nature Conservancy poll that shows it’s not only urban residents who demand clean and safe transportation—rural residents do, too—and why a state-led effort to modernize transportation in rural, suburban, and urban…

Oil Industry Cons About the EV Tax Credit

Expert BlogUnited StatesDan West

The oil industry is engaged in an all-out lobbying assault to kill the consumer tax credit for plug-in electric vehicles (EV tax credit), even though it enjoys permanent tax credits that cost American taxpayers billions each year. In fact, the…

Dueling Powers: Both Clean and Dirty Energy Are Advancing

Expert BlogUnited StatesAmanda Levin, Sophia Ptacek
The U.S. energy sector has entered a new phase in the energy transition: renewable energy and energy efficiency are clear economic winners, but fracked gas and oil have spurred a worrying buildout of polluting fossil infrastructure. NRDC’s Seventh Annual Energy…

Time to Act on Climate—with Tax Policy!

Expert BlogMarc Boom
Overhauling our energy tax code is still a way off, but simply extending and updating existing tax incentives could go a long way in setting the stage for deeper climate action.

CA’s Advanced Clean Truck Rule Is a Start but Falls Short

Expert BlogPatricio Portillo
The California Air Resources Board recently proposed the Advanced Clean Truck Rule to bring more medium- and heavy-duty electric trucks to market. It’s a start but ultimately lags rather than leads the industry.