NRDC Action Fund’s Weekly News Summary

Here’s what’s happening in politics and the environment: Top energy adviser says Donald Trump is solidly behind fracking- Donald Trump said he could support lo…
Updates | Jeff Popkin |Donald Trump should stop lying about coal

On Wednesday, the Obama Administration announced $38.8 million in federal grants for economic development projects in communities that are experiencing the tou…
Energy, Jobs and the Election

The fossil fuel industry is betting big on the dirty energy sources of the past. They’re working furiously, and spending millions, to attack pro-environment ca…
Updates | Denis Dison |Kaine KOs Pence in Environmental Showdown

By Wesley Warren Olympic boxing is here but another matchup between Clinton-Kaine and Trump-Pence is coming this fall. With the conventions behind us, it’s a g…
Environmental Justice, Hillary Clinton, and the Rising American Electorate

By Ellice Ellis The water crisis in Flint, Michigan thrust environmental justice issues into the national spotlight during the 2016 Democratic presidential pri…
Updates | Jeff Popkin |NRDC Action Fund’s Weekly News Summary

This is what the NRDC Action Fund has been reading this week: Republican EPA administrators endorse Clinton- In their endorsement of Clinton, two former EPA ad…
Updates | Jeff Popkin |NRDC Action Fund’s Weekly News Summary

This is what the NRDC Action Fund has been reading this week: Symptoms of a sick climate- Record breaking temperatures in 2015 prove the state of the earth’s c…
Updates | Jeff Popkin |NRDC Action Fund’s Weekly News Summary

Here’s what the NRDC Action Fund has been reading this week: Clinton-Kaine are the clear choice– Hillary Clinton’s selection of Tim Kaine gives voters a clear …
Updates | Jeff Popkin |NRDC Action Fund Applauds Clinton-Kaine Ticket

Kevin Curtis, executive director of the NRDC Action Fund, today issued the following statement regarding Hillary Clinton’s selection of Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) t…
NRDC Action Fund’s Weekly News Summary

This is what the NRDC Action Fund has been reading this week: Did the tobacco industry learn its denial from big oil?– Green groups find that the tobacco indus…
Updates | Jeff Popkin |Trump Picks Pence as VP, Spelling Double Trouble for the Environment

The reality show that was the GOP VP nominating process is now at an end. Trump to Mike Pence: You’re hired. Many Republican strategists hope this is good news…
Hillary Clinton: The Leader We Need

Over the next two weeks, Republican and Democratic leaders will gather in Cleveland and Philadelphia for the quadrennial exercise in partisan persuasion and po…
NRDC Action Fund’s Weekly News Summary

This is what the NRDC Action Fund has been reading this week: Bernie Sanders endorses Hillary, uniting over climate change– Bernie Sanders endorses Hillary Cli…
Updates | Jeff Popkin |Trump’s GOP accelerates assault on the environment

If the selection of climate denier Donald Trump as their standard-bearer wasn’t an obvious enough clue, Republican leaders this week dropped any pretense that …
NRDC Action Fund’s Weekly News Summary

This is what the NRDC Action Fund has been reading this week: Obama and Hillary campaign on climate – Obama and Clinton took to North Carolina and hit Trump fo…
Updates | Jeff Popkin |NRDC Action Fund’s Weekly News Summary

This is what the NRDC Action Fund has been reading this week: #NeverTrump – Will stark differences on the issue of climate change between the candidates unify …
Updates | Jeff Popkin |Guest Opinion: Take Trump Threat Seriously

Many thought Donald Trump would be dumped in the GOP primary, but instead he triumphed. Trump passed two big milestones last month as he clinched the GOP nom…
Why does Sen. Kirk keep voting against clean water?

For more than two years now, the people of Flint, Mich., have been warned to drink bottled or filtered water because the stuff coming out of their taps is tain…
Guest Opinion: California Dreamin’

Bernie Sanders is in the Golden State enjoying a little bit of California dreaming this week. He wins in California and then goes to the convention, convincing…
Hillary Clinton for President

In 160 days, voters will face a choice between two major party nominees in the 2016 U.S. presidential contest: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Only one of th…