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The Sustaining America’s Fisheries for the Future Act would reauthorize and recharge the Magnuson-Stevens Act—a promising sign for sustainable fisheries and coastal communities.

Given the urbanization of our nation, the overdue focus on racial inequity and the threat of climate change, our nation needs to invest much, much more in cleaner transportation options, especially public transit.

On July 27th, NOAA's remotely-operated vehicle will be piloted down to the slope of Retriever Seamount in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument to view its biodiversity and geology up close—and you’re invited!

Among the animals at greatest risk from the impacts of seismic testing is the Gulf of Mexico whale—one of the most endangered marine mammals on the planet.

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Groundbreaking voter led ballot initiative to curb single-use plastic pollution impacts on people, wildlife and climate qualifies for November 2022 election

We must act now to establish the policies to get there while supporting the economic recovery with newly created jobs and public health benefits that will make for healthier people and communities throughout the nation.

Oil and gas extraction activities, including fracking, drilling, and production, can release radioactive materials that endanger workers, nearby communities, and the environment.

The U.S. oil and gas industry produced an estimated one trillion gallons of produced water in 2017. And this waste—along with drilling and fracking waste—can contain radioactive elements known as “technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive material,” or TENORM. A new…

This Friday, the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board will decide whether to clean up Los Angeles’s urban runoff problem, or to continue to let polluters use our waterways as their dumping grounds.

American Cities Climate Challenge partners release a new resource for cities looking to dramatically cut energy use in existing buildings, an essential reference guide developed from the real-world experience of cities at the forefront of advanced building policy.

Deliberate policies are needed to ensure priority communities have access to these high-paying, upwardly mobile careers.

A new resource from Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN), Equity and Buildings: A Practice Framework for Local Government Decision Makers, builds on the expertise of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color-led (BIPOC) organizations to help local practitioners center equity in…

This is the time for Congress and the Biden Administration to go big and fully fund the replacement of all lead service lines in America because the cost of going home to a house with lead pipes could be even…

The Department of Energy budget bill advanced Friday by the House Appropriations Committee includes important provisions to improve the agency’s critical clean energy programs, but the funding levels fall short of the bold increases necessary to catalyze clean energy innovation…