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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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New York’s Fossil Fuel Fight

DispatchNew YorkNicole Greenfield
The Empire State has adopted an innovative strategy to ward off an invasion of fracked-gas pipelines—and it’s working.

Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States Seek to Modernize Mobility

Expert BlogBruce Ho
Who hasn’t had a day ruined by a traffic jam or a delayed train, bus, or subway when trying to get their kids to school, get to work, or get home? Seven Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states and Washington, D.C. are…

NRDC Fights Another Pruitt Rollback of Smog & Methane Curbs

Expert BlogMeleah Geertsma, Mark Szybist
In yet another step to dismantle critical protections for our air and climate, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has proposed to withdraw the EPA’s guideline for states to reduce smog-forming air pollution from oil and gas production, processing, and transmission activities.

Clean Energy Is Key to New England’s Fuel Security

Expert BlogBruce Ho
To the extent the New England grid operator's recent fuel security analysis proves anything, it is that continued deployment of clean energy will improve grid reliability and reduce fuel security risks.

Americans to Trump: No More Offshore Drilling

Expert BlogFranz Matzner
President Trump and Secretary Zinke would expose virtually every mile of America’s coastline—from Maine to Florida, from Alaska to California—to the risks of an oil spill. Our air will be polluted. Ocean health and coastal economies will suffer. Climate change…

Diverse Coalition Sets Forth Vision for FERC Power Markets

Expert BlogJennifer Chen
Seeking to fix growing problems with certain wholesale electricity markets, an unusual coalition of rural-cooperative and publicly-owned electric utilities, industrial and commercial customers, consumer advocates, renewable energy organizations, and NRDC have joined together in support of a set of principles…

EPApocalypse: A Review of Pruitt’s 1st Year as Administrator

Expert BlogChantelle "Ella" Mendonsa
While Pruitt has recently been catching heat for his science-denying comments on climate change, his luxurious travel on the taxpayer dime, and his elimination of the child cancer research program, it’s his dangerous predilection to gut critical public health protections…