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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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Can Hydrogen Help Combat the Climate Crisis?

ExplainerUnited StatesSusan Cosier
Hydrogen hubs across the country seek to fuel high-emission industries with cleaner energy.

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NRDC to EPA: Scrap the Dirty Power Plan, Strengthen the CPP

Expert BlogLissa Lynch
NRDC submitted extensive public comments strongly opposing the Trump EPA’s irresponsible proposal to cancel the groundbreaking Clean Power Plan and replace it with a deeply flawed dirty power plan that will result in more power plant carbon pollution, harming public…

Seven Midwest Winners Announced in City Climate Challenge

Expert BlogKatharine McCormick
Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Natural Resources Defense Council and partners today announced that St. Paul, Minneapolis, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Indianapolis, and Columbus are among the 20 winning cities in the Bloomberg American Cities Climate Challenge. These Midwest cities join eight…

What Exactly Do Green Banks Do? This Database Will Tell You

Expert BlogBettina Bergöö
While it’s increasingly well known that green banks are a way to mobilize that capital, there hasn’t been a resource for understanding exactly how they do it on the transaction level—until now.

Trees! The IPCC Should Be Loving These Trees

Expert BlogNathanael Greene
The IPCC report is terrifying in its clinical description of the floods, fires, droughts, and starvation we will suffer, and the homes and lives that will be destroyed. To help us get out from under our covers, the wonderful people…

New Report: Heating Is Next Clean Energy Frontier in CA

Expert BlogPierre Delforge
Clean space and water heating technologies such as heat pumps and solar thermal have the potential to save Californians more than $1,500 upon installation and hundreds of dollars on annual utility bills afterward. In particular, super-high-efficiency heat pump technology is…

IPCC 1.5°C Report: A Call to Transform Our Energy System

Expert BlogInternational, United States, ChinaHan Chen

The IPCC Special Report on 1.5C calls for immediate reductions in coal, oil and gas to avoid lockin-in high-carbon infrastructure, and calls for a rapid scaling up of renewable energy.

Happy Energy Efficiency Day 2018: Michigan Spotlight

Expert BlogAriana Gonzalez
Happy 3rd annual national Energy Efficiency Day! In Michigan, we have a lot to celebrate as energy efficiency has quickly become the cornerstone of the state's clean energy future.

Solar Blooms in Rural U.S, with Co-ops in the Driver’s Seat

Expert BlogArjun Krishnaswami
A report released this Summer by the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) documents the tremendous growth in solar energy driven by electric cooperatives. The cost of solar is on the decline, access to solar is expanding, and the future…

Why AGA Gets Electrification Wrong

Expert BlogAmanda Levin
The American Gas Association (AGA) is out with a report that attempts to contradict the widely-accepted consensus that electrification—the strategic replacement of fossil-fuel burning appliances, vehicles, and industrial equipment with electric versions powered by clean, renewable electricity—will be a key…

Don't Throw Good Climate Money After Bad with BECCS

Expert BlogNathanael Greene
Following on the IPCC compiled 130 modeled scenarios that overwhelmingly concluded governments will fail to control global warming emissions and need to such CO2 out of the air. the UK government appears to be interested in supporting bioenergy coupled with…

California Embraces Another Zero-Carbon Bill

Expert BlogNRDC
In the latest move to fight climate change, Governor Brown signed a bill protecting the environment, workers, and local communities during the shutdown process of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant.