Portland Gives Its Buses the Red-Carpet Treatment
The city’s Rose Lane Project is an experiment with transit priority. Update, Feb 14: Last night, the Portland City Council passed the Rose Lane Project! Dozens…
Local | |ELECTION UPDATE: Ohio’s Hamilton County Issue 7 is a Vote For Climate and a Vote For Transit
This spring Hamilton County residents will be making their voices heard at the ballot box and with Issue 7 have the opportunity to support transit, investment …
Uncategorized | |NRDC Action Fund endorses Markey in the Massachusetts Senate race
WASHINGTON, DC – The NRDC Action Fund, a national environmental advocacy organization, today announced its endorsement of Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.) in his ca…
Press Releases | |NRDC Action Fund endorses Markey in the Massachusetts Senate race
WASHINGTON, DC – The NRDC Action Fund, a national environmental advocacy organization, today announced its endorsement of Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.) in his ca…
Democratic Challengers Already Beating Trump on Climate
As Democratic presidential hopefuls gather for tonight’s debate in Des Moines, it’s heartening to see all of them solidly united around the urgent need f…
Elections, White House | |Climate Change and the 2020 Presidential Candidates: Where Do They Stand?
(This post was last updated on January 14, 2020.) Climate change is getting unprecedented attention from many of the 2020 presidential candidates. They are res…
Week 152: Houston, You Might Have a Problem With Your Air. But We Can’t Be Sure.
The Trump administration failed to monitor air pollution in the toxic aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. Also: Trump is taking a chainsaw to our protections, and t…
White House | |Week 151: Flushing Conservation Down the Drain: Donald Trump’s Toilet Troubles
The president wants the EPA to fix his toilet, and an Interior official finds himself in deep doo-doo. A Plumbing Emergency on Pennsylvania Avenue? When Presid…
White House | |Week 150: Trump Is Pro-Fence When It Comes to Immigration, Anti-Fence When It Comes to Protecting Kids’ Health
Plus, the solar industry pleads for mercy, and the president says he thinks about climate change “all the time.” Hmm. Good Drones Make Good Neighbors? The U.S.…
White House | |Week 148: Trump Hates California. James Inhofe Hates California. So They Both Love Andrew Wheeler.
Plus, get ready for the rise of hermaphroditic frogs, and the EPA’s Science Advisory Board can’t meet until after the agency corrupts science. How Andy Wheeler…
White House | |Week 147: Trump Officials Stonewall Investigators . . . at the EPA. (What Did You Think We Were Talking About?)
Plus, the EPA’s secret science rule is so “1984,” and Trump declares himself “very much into climate,” which is so “Pinocchio.” Stonewall Jackson Ryan Jackson,…
White House | |LCV, NRDC Action Fund Launch $200K Digital Ad Campaign in Support of Clean Energy Tax Credits
Washington, D.C. — The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) and the NRDC Action Fund will spend a combined $200,000 on digital ad campaigns thanking envir…
Press Releases | |LCV, NRDC Action Fund Launch $200K Digital Ad Campaign in Support of Clean Energy Tax Credits
Washington, D.C. — The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) and the NRDC Action Fund will spend a combined $200,000 on digital ad campaigns thanking envir…
Congress, Press Releases | |Week 146: Trump Starts the Paris Withdrawal Clock (and Nudges the Doomsday Clock Forward)
The president’s promise to renegotiate the international climate agreement was always a smogscreen, the oil industry has a red phone at Interior, and will Trum…
White House | |Historic Win for Climate Action in Virginia
Virginians secured a decisive victory for climate action in yesterday’s election, with control of both chambers of the legislature flipping to a climate and cl…
Week 144: Trump Wants to Turn Alaska’s Tongass Rainforest Into a Drive-Thru
Plus, David Bernhardt does more favors for his former client, the USDA allegedly suppresses climate research (a whole lot of it), and the president launches pe…
White House | |In 2020, Winning is Everything
In a speech today in Pittsburgh, President Trump doubled down on his all-fossil-fuel energy agenda–ignoring the scientific community, the business commun…
Week 142: President Trump Honors Science Denial. Again.
And sticks it to California. Again. The Science Denial Is So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades One of the few comforts we can take during the current renaissance of …
White House | |Week 141: Bernhardt Moves to Make a Big Dam Bigger—and His Old Clients Richer
Plus, the Trump administration dodges Senate hearings, and loses to environmentalists in two big court cases. Dam Shameless Before he was the interior secretar…
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