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In a disappointing decision, Judge Terry Doughty of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana ruled that the Biden administration must end its temporary moratorium on offshore and onshore oil and gas leasing.

In recently filed comments and reply comments, NRDC together with Sierra Club, the Regional Plan Association, Association for Energy Affordability, and New Yorkers for Clean Power presented a vision for a gas system planning process to identify the lowest-cost, least-risk…

G7 leaders met in the UK last week, and climate was high on the agenda, as it must be. One of the areas of agreement among the leaders of the world’s largest economies might seem new but has been in…

The way we lease and extract oil and gas from our public lands and waters is broken, and our ability to stave off the worst impacts of climate change depends, in part, on fixing it now.

America needs a transit bill that rises to the challenges we face as a nation and the essential role transit plays within the broader transportation system.

The most vulnerable people, including millions in India already battling a deadly COVID-19 pandemic, face the worst impacts of climate change. Climate disasters like the cyclone last month, coming on heels of the year-long pandemic, have exacerbated and laid bare…

San Diego small businesses, like Juan Pablo Sanchez’s Super Cocina, have reinvented parking lots to serve communities. A new proposal would make it easier for businesses to make these changes permanent.

As Pennsylvania draws nearer to participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, Pennsylvanians are increasingly interested in how the state will invest the proceeds it receives from the auction of RGGI allowances—likely hundreds of millions of dollars per year.

Our transportation system—the lifeblood of our economy—directly impacts the quality of our lives, and the life of the nation, every day and in every community. It’s time to move forward.

A new IPBES/IPCC report just provides even more evidence that the UK’s plan to meet net zero goals by relying on a fake climate solution—biomass energy—is completely wrongheaded.

The Biden administration has taken huge strides in acting on climate and should now move forward to take one of the most important actions to protect the ocean and those who depend on it, and to combat the climate crisis…

California utility customers contribute over $100 million every year to subsidize gas connections for new customers. But it doesn’t make sense to keep extending gas pipelines as California moves away from using fossil fuels that add to the climate problem…

Decarbonizing concrete and, by extension, cement, is a key opportunity for climate action. We can’t hit our climate targets without policies to zero out emissions from this sector. 

In a pandemic, public health protection should trump drug makers' interests.

Dominion's High Rates Could be Lowered if the SCC Removes Dominion's Senseless Limits on Good Efficiency Programs

How the power grid just saved consumers four billion dollars and maybe shut down a bunch of old coal plants simply by waiting.

The INVEST Act is a historic, visionary proposal. It breathes new life into the transportation debate and offers a real down payment on the President’s American Jobs Plan. Now is the time to move forward with this exciting bill.