News & Commentary

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.

The House just passed legislation that takes an all-of-government approach to the interconnected crises of climate change, rising inequality, crumbling infrastructure, and ongoing racial injustice.

Transforming city budgets to address climate change will be essential to meeting our climate goals, and Pittsburgh has taken a first step.

Now we’re counting on the Senate to deliver on the country’s most consequential climate legislation ever.

McDonald's fails to deliver on its pledge to end routine antibiotic use in global beef supplies.

What should rooftop solar customers be paid for the electricity they generate, and how should the costs of the electric system that we all depend on be shared among customers with and without rooftop solar?

Demonstrating its commitment to ending the threat of large-scale mining to the world’s most productive wild salmon fishery, EPA announced a new timeframe for considering whether to permanently protect Bristol Bay and stop the Pebble Mine.

Replacing coal with forest biomass is not a climate solution. But cracks are beginning to show in the UK Government’s finely tuned head-in-the-sand approach to biomass energy policy.

For the last decade, the FDA has been urging the industrial meat industry to use antibiotics more wisely. That makes it important to question why livestock sales have risen the past two years.

This research shows that while Lyft and Uber have the potential to be an ally in a low-carbon future, they are currently not playing that role.

This morning, the Biden administration held the largest offshore oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history. Though the Biden administration has been bold on climate in other ways, this latest action is profoundly disappointing.

This week, lawmakers in the House of Representatives are giving serious attention to the opportunities and challenges of siting renewable energy projects and their associated transmission infrastructure on public lands.

The future of clean, zero-emission trucks is now in the hands of the New York Department of Environmental Conservation. Following a robust comment period, the State must decide whether to move forward with the Advanced Clean Truck (ACT) rule. 

The Biden administration made news this week when it announced it will consider protecting a portion of the Greater Chaco Region in New Mexico from new oil and gas drilling.

The White House today sent the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, the treaty to phase down hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), to the Senate for its advice and consent to U.S. ratification.

Some of the biggest announcements were made last week at the COP-26 in Glasgow on “Transport Day.” The focus: zeroing out pollution from some of the world’s dirtiest and climate-busting sources including cars, trucks, ships, 2- and 3-wheelers, and planes.