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,…
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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GOP’s Climate Deniers Feeling the Heat
At a recent forum in Washington, leading climate science skeptic Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute told attendees that one of the “dangers” of the Green New Deal is that “it’s creating a very large space for a certain class of people, many of them in the Republican…
A New Call to National Climate Action
Minutes after opening the 116th Congress last week, incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi issued a stirring call to national action on what she called “the existential threat of our time: the climate crisis.”In Pelosi we have a leader who is listening to the science—and to the American people across the…
10 Climate Champions Coming to Washington
Sen.-elect Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.)The 2018 midterm elections swept dozens of pro-environment candidates into Congress, and several of these newly-elected members are themselves scientists or environmental advocates. They’re the type of forward-thinking leaders who the NRDC Action Fund worked hard to help elect in 2018, and who America needs in…
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