California is moving fast to replace dirty, gas-guzzling heavy-duty vehicles with cleaner, electric choices as a way to combat air pollution and climate change. Both fleets and electric utilities need to rethink the way they build the charging stations needed to power these vehicles. Charging stations should be as affordable as possible, and help electric […]

California is moving fast to replace dirty, gas-guzzling heavy-duty vehicles with cleaner, electric choices as a way to combat air pollution and climate change. Both fleets and electric utilities need to rethink the way they build the charging stations needed to power these vehicles. Charging stations should be as affordable as possible, and help electric […]

The Trump administration is once again ignoring the experts. Despite investment professionals’ widespread agreement that ESG integration bolsters financial performance and is essential to financial decision making, the Administration is pushing to limit Americans’ access to ESG funds. Over the past few months, financial experts from BlackRock to Morningstar to MSCI have stressed that sustainable investing helps improve long-term portfolio performance. […]

Three months into the COVID-19 crisis, it’s clear that the American economy and the nation’s workforce needs more help. Millions are still out of work and experts have declared a recession. To address this need, next week the House of Representatives will take up a recovery bill that seeks to not only restore America’s crumbling […]

Protecting Pennsylvanians from COVID-19 and addressing the systemic racial injustices that plague our communities must be the top priorities of our elected officials right now. However, it’s critical lawmakers don’t lose sight of the escalating threats to our health and economy, including the pollution that impacts the safety and well-being of our families and communities. […]

The world is a different place now than it was when I grew up in Houston in the 1980s. I have vivid memories of steamy summer thunderstorms consistently interrupting my afternoons at the neighborhood pool. My sister and I would head home and swap our swimsuits for raincoats, then stomp around muddy ditches and dig […]

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The world is a different place now than it was when I grew up in Houston in the 1980s. I have vivid memories of steamy summer thunderstorms consistently interrupting my afternoons at the neighborhood pool. My sister and I would head home and swap our swimsuits for raincoats, then stomp around muddy ditches and dig […]

The world is a different place now than it was when I grew up in Houston in the 1980s. I have vivid memories of steamy summer thunderstorms consistently interrupting my afternoons at the neighborhood pool. My sister and I would head home and swap our swimsuits for raincoats, then stomp around muddy ditches and dig […]

Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Lead Senior Scientist. [UPDATES ADDED 8-6-20: See insertions of bracketed italicized text below.] I blogged a few short weeks ago about just how brazen EPA officials have become in aligning themselves with the chemical industry when it comes to the agency’s review of companies’ requests to commercialize new chemicals under the […]

Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Lead Senior Scientist. I blogged a few short weeks ago about just how brazen EPA officials have become in aligning themselves with the chemical industry when it comes to the agency’s review of companies’ requests to commercialize new chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Yet it just keeps getting […]

Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Lead Senior Scientist. [UPDATES ADDED 8-6-20: See insertions of bracketed italicized text below.] I blogged a few short weeks ago about just how brazen EPA officials have become in aligning themselves with the chemical industry when it comes to the agency’s review of companies’ requests to commercialize new chemicals under the […]

With HB 1087, the North Carolina Legislature will help communities improve resilience in the face of growing threats and provide a model for other states looking to implement similar resilience-building projects.

With HB 1087, the North Carolina Legislature will help communities improve resilience in the face of growing threats and provide a model for other states looking to implement similar resilience-building projects.

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With HB 1087, the North Carolina Legislature will help communities improve resilience in the face of growing threats and provide a model for other states looking to implement similar resilience-building projects.

Ben Ratner and Tudor Pickering CEO Maynard Holt have a wide-ranging conversation about the investors/ESG, energy transition, flaring, methane and Environmental Defense Fund’s pragmatic approach. Ben’s segment begins at 14:28.

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Farmers and policymakers have a tremendous opportunity with the Growing Climate Solutions Act to lead by example and make our farms and communities as resilient as possible for future generations.

The unprecedented  2019 Mississippi River flood was a stark reminder of the need to rethink the management of our rivers and how we confront a future with more water coming to Louisiana from the rest of the country. In the last five years, the Army Corps has opened the Bonnet Carré Spillway (BCS) five times to relieve pressure on Mississippi River levees that protect one million people in Southeast Louisiana.  To identify actionable solutions to confront this new normal, we ...

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The unprecedented  2019 Mississippi River flood was a stark reminder of the need to rethink the management of our rivers and how we confront a future with more water coming to Louisiana from the rest of the country. In the last five years, the Army Corps has opened the Bonnet Carré Spillway (BCS) five times to relieve pressure on Mississippi River levees that protect one million people in Southeast Louisiana.  To identify actionable solutions to confront this new normal, we ...

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Written by Diane MacEachern

Racial justice is climate justice. As the Black Lives Matter protests have shown, racism is pervasive in the US. While not everyone can protest in person, families can still support the BLM movement in meaningful and concrete ways.