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A year after the launch of the Food Matters Regional Initiative, we are pleased to report considerable progress and accomplishments from the 15 regional initiative participants.

This month marks one year after Chicago Southeast Siders filed a civil rights complaint with HUD against General Iron. Here’s where we are now.

NRDC has seen a steady decline in total water usage institution-wide and has taken steps to advance water stewardship.

Yes, you read that right.

Climate change is hurting us here and now in Illinois. Our state has the best chance in a generation to take ambitious action on climate change, but the window is closing. We need to act now to pass equitable climate…

Indianapolis City Council passed Proposal 185, a Benchmarking and Transparency Ordinance which is a key priority in realizing Mayor Joe Hogsett’s commitment to making the city carbon neutral by 2050.

On July 8, I participated in the EPA's Chicago Community Roundtable to discuss the need to update the outdated Lead and Copper Rule.

As Pennsylvania draws nearer to participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, Pennsylvanians are increasingly interested in how the state will invest the proceeds it receives from the auction of RGGI allowances—likely hundreds of millions of dollars per year.

This is the fourth in a series of blogs celebrating the grant projects funded through our Clean Air Act settlement with the owners of the E.D. Edwards coal-fired power plant outside Peoria, Illinois. The settlement provides for the plant to…

The Lead Service Line Replacement and Notification Act will put the health of Illinoisians first—particularly those who bear the brunt of toxic lead exposure.

The Lead Service Line Replacement and Notification Act will put the health of Illinoisans first—particularly those who bear the brunt of toxic lead exposure.

Nicor Gas is currently pushing a gas line extension bill to foist costly and dangerous fossil fuel energy onto Pembroke—one of Illinois’s last remaining historical Black farming communities—for decades to come.

Investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) can help lower electricity bills for Pennsylvanians, as well as improve public health, our climate, and Pennsylvania’s economy.

This marks a major step forward in dismantling the environmental racism that has plagued the neighborhood for decades.

After an extra dark, long, COVID winter, the trees are finally in bloom and the birds are singing. Unfortunately, it’s also the season when bills that would stifle Pennsylvania’s transition to a brighter clean energy future are popping up in…