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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Fifty Years of Environmental Progress Threatened
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock music festival, but there was more to the summer of ’69 than bell bottoms, blues, and butterflies.That same summer in Cleveland, the Cuyahoga River was so badly polluted from industrial waste that it caught on fire. New York and Los Angeles were the…
Ohio Lawmakers Bail Out Coal Plants, Boost Trump
On the campaign trail in 2016, President Trump promised to save the coal industry by eliminating environmental safeguards and cutting limits on greenhouse gas emissions (never mind that industry analysts put most of the blame for coal’s decline on the rise of cheaper energy alternatives). Not surprisingly, Trump’s misguided…
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…
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