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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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Burning Wood for Electricity: Destructive and Unnecessary

Expert BlogInternationalSasha Stashwick

A groundbreaking new study discredits the U.K. biomass industry's argument that a modern electricity system powered by wind, solar, and smart resources like batteries cannot perform reliably and predictably.

Congress and Trump Curtail Public Input on Public Lands

Expert BlogBobby McEnaney
This week in D.C., Congressional Republicans, in alignment with the wishes of the oil and gas industry, move to effectively eliminate the public’s right to participate in most decisions regarding public land use for oil and gas extraction.

PJM Auction Illustrates Importance of Demand Curve Fix

Expert BlogJennifer Chen
PJM, a grid operator for 65 million customers, recently conducted an auction that procured 22 percent extra capacity over its customers’ projected need. That’s more than 9,000 megawatts extra on top of PJM’s target reserve margin of 15.8 percent extra…

Oil Hunt Damages Everglades’ Big Cypress National Preserve

Expert BlogUnited StatesAlison Kelly

New oil development has no place in sensitive wetland habitats in the Florida Everglades. The Burnett Oil Company claimed it could explore for oil in the Big Cypress National Preserve with no significant, long-term impacts to sensitive wetlands. But these…

G7 Countries Waste $100 Billion a Year on Coal, Oil, and Gas

Expert BlogHan Chen
Our new study reveals that government support for coal, oil and gas in the G7 countries totals over $100 billion a year, wasteing taxpayer money and running counter to the pledges of the G7 nations to end fossil fuel subsidies…

CA Leaders Pass Bills to Protect Coast from Drilling

Expert BlogSandy Aylesworth
California legislators approved two bills yesterday that create a major barrier to new offshore drilling in federal waters off California. Congressional Republicans should follow the lead of their state legislators and publicly oppose new drilling in these waters, so that…

PJM Auction: Wind, Solar, Efficiency Still Face Barriers

Expert BlogJennifer Chen
While the auction results show an uptick in market participation of renewable and demand-side resource participation, PJM’s market rules still impose unnecessary structural barriers to these fuel- and emissions-free resources.

Don’t Let Offshore Drilling SpOIL Coastal National Parks

Expert BlogUnited StatesJacob Eisenberg

Thanks to the Trump Administration’s proposed offshore drilling plan, 68 coastal National Parks abutting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and around Alaska and Florida’s coasts could now face that same harm, according to a new report by NRDC and the…

FERC Takes a Step Backward on Environmental Impacts

Expert BlogGillian Giannetti
Buried within a routine order, a 3-2 majority of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) unveiled a new policy on May 18 that limits FERC's analysis and disclosure of the environmental impacts of natural gas pipeline projects. The policy undermines…