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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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CA Refineries Are Driving Our Addiction to Oil Imports

Expert BlogCaliforniaAnn Alexander
If California truly means business about moving away from fossil fuels, it’s going to have to tackle the refinery problem—which puts surrounding communities at risk every day from pollution and frequent accidents.

Bold Action to Save our Global Life Support System

Expert BlogUnited StatesDrevet Hunt, Helen O'Shea, Zak Smith
Given the scale and scope of the challenges we face, the 30x30 plan is a down payment on a new relationship with nature that we must forge to keep our global life support system in operation.

Strategic Gas Planning Is Vital to NY's Climate Leadership

Expert BlogNew YorkSamantha Wilt
With transparency, sufficient data, and stakeholder engagement, New York can ensure the gas system transition is as equitable, cost-effective, and certain as possible while achieving its nation-leading climate goals.

California Makes History with Clean Trucks Rule

Expert BlogCaliforniaPatricio Portillo
In a groundbreaking win, CARB adopted the world’s first zero-emission commercial truck requirement, the Advanced Clean Trucks rule. The rule, which requires truck makers to sell an increasing number of clean, zero-emission trucks in California in place of dirty diesel…

The Issue With Tissue 2.0

Expert BlogCanadaShelley Vinyard
Tissue companies are flushing away our forests and our future by making toilet paper from ancient forests essential to the climate fight. The Issue With Tissue 2.0 grades at-home tissue products on their impact on the climate crisis.

Toilet Paper Is Driving the Climate Crisis with Every Flush

Expert BlogCanada, United StatesJennifer Skene
Despite the fact that we have only a matter of years left to act to avoid catastrophic climate change, tissue companies driving a tree-to-toilet pipeline and flushing away this essential climate ally.

AB 345: Please Keep Off the Astroturf

Expert BlogCaliforniaAnn Alexander
AB 345, which passed the California Assembly and is now pending in the Senate, would require regulators to establish setback buffers to keep drilling operations away from homes, schools, playgrounds, and hospitals. 

New Campaign Urges UK to End Biomass Subsidies

Expert BlogInternationalSasha Stashwick
A new campaign that NRDC is helping lead, Cut Carbon Not Forests, is aimed at directing public pressure on Members of Parliament in the United Kingdom to end financial subsidies to power companies that burn dirty biomass energy.

Remembering Eeyou Pimatseewin, the Cree Life

PerspectivesCanada
Allan Saganash Jr. grew up in the bush, living off the land—then watched as industry shrank and changed his beloved boreal forest home. He’s determined to save what’s left.

PBS Frontline Updates Battle for Bristol Bay

Expert BlogJoel Reynolds
Extended interview with Pebble CEO Tom Collier documents duplicity, financial conflict of interest, and why, when he speaks, “its sensible to be skeptical.”