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1.5 Degrees of Global Warming—Are We There Yet?

ExplainerUnited States, InternationalMolly Bergen
Here’s where the world stands in its fight against climate change. The end goal remains the same.
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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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Rural Communities Want Clean Transportation, Too

Expert BlogBruce Ho
There’s good news for transportation sufferers from a new Nature Conservancy poll that shows it’s not only urban residents who demand clean and safe transportation—rural residents do, too—and why a state-led effort to modernize transportation in rural, suburban, and urban…

Navajo Generation Coal-fired Power Plant Shuts Down Early

Expert BlogJulia Prochnik
All across the United States, there are communities built around power sources of the past. While the need to transition to clean energy is clear, the future of these communities is often more complicated.

Keeping the Lights On with Clean Energy

Expert BlogCaliforniaPeter Miller

California needs to ensure a reliable supply of electricity. But we need to do it as much as possible with clean resources, to avoid further burdening vulnerable communities that have historically hosted polluting facilities and to reduce our climate pollution…

California Leads the Way Again—This Time on Light Bulbs

Expert BlogNoah Horowitz
California has once again demonstrated its environmental leadership by adopting updated energy efficiency standards that will prohibit the sale of inefficient light bulbs in the state as of January 1, 2020. Today’s California state-level action is needed because of the…

Dueling Powers: Both Clean and Dirty Energy Are Advancing

Expert BlogUnited StatesAmanda Levin, Sophia Ptacek
The U.S. energy sector has entered a new phase in the energy transition: renewable energy and energy efficiency are clear economic winners, but fracked gas and oil have spurred a worrying buildout of polluting fossil infrastructure. NRDC’s Seventh Annual Energy…

Time to Act on Climate—with Tax Policy!

Expert BlogMarc Boom
Overhauling our energy tax code is still a way off, but simply extending and updating existing tax incentives could go a long way in setting the stage for deeper climate action.

"E" Is for Equity

Expert BlogUnited StatesSharon Buccino
As a lawyer for the past 30 years, I’ve worked with a lot of laws. None is as eloquent as NEPA—the National Environmental Policy Act. Few are as short. Few are as broad. Few are as misunderstood.

Prioritizing Environmental Justice in Chicago

Expert BlogGina Ramirez
Making meaningful progress in addressing the inequalities that industrial pollution adds to the Chicago’s most vulnerable residents can happen before we determine the structure of a new agency.

CA’s Advanced Clean Truck Rule Is a Start but Falls Short

Expert BlogPatricio Portillo
The California Air Resources Board recently proposed the Advanced Clean Truck Rule to bring more medium- and heavy-duty electric trucks to market. It’s a start but ultimately lags rather than leads the industry.

Lenders: To Preserve Affordable Housing, Manage Climate Risk

Expert BlogBettina Bergöö
Lower-income renters face significantly greater challenges from weather-related disasters than their wealthier counterparts. Given the current prioritization of homeowners in post-disaster recovery, there is an urgent need for increased investment in pre-disaster preparedness in rental housing.

Perry’s Odd Definition of Progress on Nuclear Waste

Expert BlogCaroline Reiser
Rick Perry boasts that under his leadership the Energy Department made progress cleaning up the highly radioactive and chemical waste that is the product of nuclear weapons development. In reality, the Energy Department only weakened standards and reneged on promises…

Healthy Energy Efficiency: The Proof Is in the Materials

Expert BlogInternationalMichele Knab Hasson
These new resources shine a light on the efficacy of healthy materials and deepen our understanding of how contractors and industry insiders actually use materials. We hope they are informative and useful and that they whet the appetite for healthier…