Climate Change and the 2020 Candidates: Where Do They Stand?
The NRDC Action Fund is monitoring and collecting the candidates’ comments and positions on climate change and clean energy to highlight the issue’s growing salience and to provide a resource for the public.
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2019: A Year of Climate Action
This was the year that the climate crisis broke through, with a massive youth-led movement taking to the streets in cities across the globe and the international media amping up coverage of climate-fueled storms and wildfires, climate science and climate politics.It was the year the 2020 U.S. presidential candidates…
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 environmental champions in Congress for their support of clean energy and encouraging them to continue to push for clean energy tax credits this session. The…
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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 clean energy majority. In a state grappling right now with sea-level rise and increasingly extreme weather, not to mention rising energy costs due to overinvestment…
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 community, and his own government’s analysis, not to mention ignoring the blindingly obvious signs that the climate crisis has arrived and the American people’s desire for federal action.Trump’s climate…
Climate Change and the 2020 Presidential Candidates: Where Do They Stand?
(This post was last updated on October 15, 2019.)Climate change is getting unprecedented attention from many of the 2020 presidential candidates. They are responding to the threats posed by a rapidly warming climate, the economic opportunities in switching to clean energy and the increasing concern of American voters: according…
U.S. Leadership Absent in Amazon Emergency
The Amazon is experiencing devastating forest fires, and the fallout may be felt for generations to come. This is terrible news for nature and wildlife, for the indigenous peoples of the region, and for global efforts to tackle climate change, because the world needs a healthy Amazon forest if…
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