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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Care About the Climate Crisis? It’s Time to Go All In.
NASA just reported June 2019 was the hottest month in recorded history, and July’s global average temperature will likely be even hotter. All-time heat records are being broken with alarming regularity now both in the U.S. and across the world, and obvious impacts are everywhere - severe floods, fires,…
Bill 25 Could Propel Honolulu’s Homes (Back) to the Future
The NRDC Action Fund is driving climate action in cities across the country through The American Cities Climate ChallengeHonolulu’s City Council has a choice to make this July. Will it adopt forward-looking requirements for builders, giving residents access to clean, affordable energy in buildings that reflect Hawai‘i’s culture and climate—and also help…
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Climate Deniers Warn GOP Lawmakers: Stay Loyal
“I don’t lose any sleep over it.”Those were the words Interior Secretary David Bernhardt used at a House hearing on May 15 to describe his level of concern about CO2 levels reaching 415 ppm in Earth’s atmosphere, an astounding level of carbon pollution that, if left unchecked, would doom…
House Passes First Climate Bill in a Decade
WASHINGTON (May 2, 2019) – The House of Representatives today, in a bipartisan vote, passed H.R.9, the Climate Action Now Act.The following is a statement from Kevin S. Curtis, executive director of the NRDC Action Fund:“This vote is a response to the call for action from Americans across the country…
Congress, Press Releases | |Oil Lobbyist Confirmed to Safeguard Public Lands and Waters
WASHINGTON (April 11, 2019) – The Senate today voted to confirm David Bernhardt as Interior Secretary.The following is a statement from John Bowman, Managing Director of Government Affairs for the NRDC Action Fund:“Bernhardt’s long history of advocating for oil and gas, mining, agribusiness and other polluters makes him exactly the…
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The Other Front in Trump’s War on the Environment
This week, senators will vote on whether to confirm former oil and gas lobbyist David Bernhardt to be Secretary of the Interior. Much has been written about the EPA’s attempted dismantling of pollution and public health regulations under President Trump, but there’s another, equally destructive dimension to his administration’s…
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