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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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DTE's Rate Case and Your Energy Bill

Expert BlogAriana Gonzalez
The Michigan Public Service Commission recently ordered significant cutbacks to a proposed rate increase by DTE. See what the DTE rate case means to families’ monthly energy bills across Michigan.

Michigan Rate Case Primer

Expert BlogAriana Gonzalez
Do you ever wonder how your monthly energy bill is calculated? Or how to lower your bill? Are you curious about the equity implications of how it’s structured? If you answered yes to any of these questions, keep reading for…

Report: “A Green New Deal for Renters” Is Possible

Expert BlogMaria Stamas, Michele Knab Hasson
A new report makes a strong case for Los Angeles leaders to reassess the city’s investments in energy efficiency programs to ensure they better serve affordable housing residents who remain deeply underserved by these services. Such investments could save low-income…

No Compromise Without Energy Efficiency

Expert BlogDaniel Sawmiller
Eliminating Ohio’s energy efficiency standards would be a drastic mistake. Energy bills would increase for Ohio’s families and businesses, carbon emissions and other air pollutants would increase, and thousands of jobs would be at risk.

Utilities, States, Thousands More Oppose Lighting Rollback

Expert BlogNoah Horowitz
Electric utilities across America, low-income consumer groups, national and local environmental organizations, 24 governors, 17 state attorneys general, almost 18,000 individual letter-writers, and the American Chemical Society all sent in letters urging the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to abandon…

Pennsylvania's Gas Power Problem, Part II: Cost and Risk

Expert BlogMark Szybist
To avoid the worst impacts of climate change, we need to make dramatic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. Where the power sector is concerned, that means using energy much more efficiently, scaling up renewables, and putting a legally binding and…

Coalition: Update, Extend Energy Efficiency Tax Incentives

Expert BlogLauren Urbanek
A broad coalition representing millions of Americans today urged Congress to modernize and extend expired energy efficiency tax incentives, touting the enormous, long-term benefits for both the industry and U.S. consumers.

Michigan Public Service Commission Primer

Expert BlogAriana Gonzalez
With big cases pending and coming at the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) that will dictate your monthly utility bill, how cost-effective home solar is, and how much wind, solar, and energy efficiency there will be in the state, it’s…

Northeast Revs Up Clean Transportation Planning

Expert BlogBruce Ho
Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states are working together to develop a regional clean transportation policy that delivers better, more equitable outcomes, improves transportation options, and cleans up the air.

CA Local Governments Take Lead on Zero-Emission Buildings

Expert BlogPierre Delforge
The City of Los Angeles just released its new Sustainability Plan that includes ambitious emissions standards for new buildings to be zero-emission by 2030 and all existing buildings by 2050. With its population of 4 million, L.A.’s leadership on cutting…

Efficiency Saving Energy When We Need It Most – And Cheaply

Expert BlogSheryl Carter
A key energy trend, detailed in the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) annual survey of electric utilities, is actually a longstanding one: energy efficiency continues to deliver energy and customer bill savings -- at low cost -- when we need it…

New Study Confirms Benefits of Electrifying CA Buildings

Expert BlogPierre Delforge
Replacing natural gas with clean electricity will slash greenhouse gas emissions from CA's single-family homes by up to 90% within the next 3 decades and save consumers money, according to a new analysis. The study confirms electrification is a vital…

Basic Fairness: Access to Water & Sewer Service in Michigan

Expert BlogLarry Levine
In this country, in this day and age, it’s shameful that our public water systems often struggle to provide safe, sufficient, affordable, accessible water for the people those systems were built to serve.