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In a newly released report—commissioned by NRDC in partnership with the Center for Western Priorities and eight other groups—the Conservation Economics Institute (CEI) finds that the temporary moratorium on leasing public lands for oil and gas development has negligible economic…

More than 40 years ago, Congress told Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to do a better job of ensuring that the public had a say in its decisions. The nation’s top energy regulator never did, and, as a result, landowners…

The drumbeat to end subsidies to the fossil fuel industry continued today as the CEOs of eighteen national environmental organizations, including NRDC, called for adoption of President Biden’s plan to cut $121 billion in subsidies to the fossil fuel industry.

The benefit of taking comprehensive climate action isn’t just curtailing carbon dioxide emissions released into the atmosphere. Climate action also prevents excess carbon dioxide from dissolving in our ocean. This process, known as ocean acidification, needs to continue to be…

Big Oil is leaving behind a colossal and dangerous mess on its way out. We need help from President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda to get started on the cleanup, but industry and not taxpayers must ultimately foot the bill.

What does resilience in buildings have to do with meeting our global climate goals? A lot, it turns out.

As the nation attempts to move out of the pandemic towards economic recovery, a crisis we’ve faced for years is coming into focus again: housing affordability. This is most keenly and devastatingly felt in an impending eviction crisis, as state…

Atlanta's decision to create a Clean Energy Advisory Board (CEAB) is an admirable and savvy step that will set the city up for success in its goal to achieve 100 percent clean energy by 2035.

California has an opportunity to build on its climate leadership by passing the California Climate Crisis Act. The bill codifies our state’s commitment to achieving net zero carbon emissions as soon as possible and by no later than 2045, and…

As climate change fuels soaring temperatures worldwide, low-cost adaptation strategies can help cities to keep cool.

The Preventing HEAT Illness and Deaths Act of 2021 is a step in the right direction to a more heat-aware and heat-ready nation.

Major stakeholders including clean energy advocates, representatives from the auto industry, and the franchised auto dealer association came together to announce an agreement on modifications to the proposed Nevada's Clean Cars program.

Columbia River Basin sockeye salmon are migrating upriver from the ocean, but new underwater videos show that this summer the fish have large chunks of flesh missing and bulbous growths across their bodies. The fish are rotting to death in…

Representative Garret Graves of Louisiana proposed an amendment to the Transportation and Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill that would have prohibited local communities from using federal funds to make their residents safer from flood disasters.

One of the foremost challenges that the California Public Utilities Commission faces in developing a new net energy metering policy, called NEM 3.0, is to ensure that rooftop solar continues to grow sustainably in California as required by law.

For the millions in rural India striving to righten their lives after the crushing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the worsening climate crises, clean energy skills and trainings can be a lifeline.