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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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NJ Nuclear Issue: Assembly Speaker Bests Chris Christie

Expert BlogDale Bryk
In a startling turn of events, Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto just refused to advance a rushed bill that would have subsidized currently thriving New Jersey nuclear plants indefinitely, to the tune of $300 million-a-year.

Merry Fracking Christmas

Expert BlogBriana Mordick
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) officially repealed the 2015 rules that govern fracking on public lands.

Don't Mine What's Mine: Boundary Waters Threatened Again

Expert BlogJacob Eisenberg
The Boundary Waters is a special wild place. An interconnected system of lakes, rivers, smaller tributaries, and wetlands, spanning over a million acres along the northern edge of Minnesota, it has been kept pristine thanks to its wilderness designation. But…

Our Grid Needs to Go on a Diet to Get Leaner and Greener

Expert BlogJennifer Chen
Many regions of the United States have overbuilt and retained too many power plants, which can be detrimental to their owners, consumers, clean alternatives like wind and solar power, and flexible resources like energy storage and demand response (compensating customers…

Tar Sands Tailings Ponds: Out of Canada's Control

Expert BlogJames Blair
The Alberta tar sands have become synonymous with global climate change, but their production process wreaks destruction across a huge region of North America’s boreal forest.

Pebble Mine’s December Press Releases: Read the Fine Print

Expert BlogJoel Reynolds
Details are scarce, but Northern Dynasty Minerals is proudly trumpeting its success this week in announcing a new investor and, at long last, filing a federal permit application tomorrow—after over a decade of unfulfilled promises that this day would soon…

This Is How We Stand Up to Trump

NRDC in ActionUnited States, Washington, D.C., Utah, Michigan, CaliforniaNicole Greenfield
Meet a handful of the NRDC staffers who resisted Trump’s attacks and defended our environment in 2017—and who won’t stop fighting anytime soon.

NRDC Sues to Block Trump Interior’s Rollback of Methane Curbs

Expert BlogMeleah Geertsma
Today, NRDC went to court to block the Trump administration’s latest hand-out to the oil and gas industry—a rollback of protections against waste and harmful air pollution on America’s public lands, at the expense of communities and taxpayers.