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EDF & UCS – Proposal Must Be Withdrawn and Is Forever Tainted

Elyse Martin, manager for Persuasion Research and Campaigns at Environmental Defense Fund, offers some tips for spotting disinformation on social media.

Colorado air regulators voted unanimously to adopt updated landfill standards to cut down on methane pollution coming from garbage dumps.

Led by President Trump’s appointees, key federal agencies have shown an unusual willingness to grant favors to the nation’s worst polluters, even if it comes at the expense of people’s health.

Across Oregon, growing demand for water and dwindling supplies are converging to make good water data more important than ever. Oregon’s leaders have taken important steps to improve the state’s ability to collect, analyze and distribute high-quality data on water supply and demand, but as budgets tighten, some of that progress is at risk. One ... The post 3 ways Oregon uses data to improve water management first appeared on On the Water Front.

The Department of Energy announced that it’s cancelling a planned $1.8 billion loan to support clean energy, battery and transmission projects for APS.

If finalized, this rollback will exempt 10 states from the Good Neighbor Plan and its limits on smog-forming pollution from power plants.

Order required broken plant to stay online to address unproven emergency

One of the most harmful actions the Trump EPA took during its first term was undermining long-standing Clean Air Act safeguards that require industrial facilities like refineries and power plants to modernize their pollution controls when they are newly built or expanding in a way that increases overall pollution volumes. These protections are intended to ensure newly constructed facilities or refurbishing existing industrial facilities ... The post Project Emissions Accounting – a Trump EPA loophole that is adding dangerous pollution to the air we breathe appeared first on Climate 411.

By Aashney Shah, EDF Legal Intern, Clean Energy Transition “Electricity is the new price of eggs.” That line, from a recent New York Times article on rising electric bills and data center growth, captures the political moment with startling clarity. Consumers want solutions. While states have been exploring a wide range of actions to address ... The post How states can deliver real equity in grid planning – not just check the box appeared first on Energy Exchange.

Thanks to an unusual collaboration between people who used to disagree, a threatened river basin in the Nevada desert is restored to life — returning water, wildlife and people to the landscape.

U.S. power demand is rising, and the sector must meet it with electricity that’s affordable, reliable and clean — a major challenge for the nation’s grid.

This blog was authored by Anshuman Tiwari, who is currently a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC India) and was formerly a Postdoctoral Fellow jointly at the Environmental Defense Fund and the Environmental Markets Lab at UC Santa Barbara. Global climate negotiations often focus on where we ... The post Tackling Methane isn’t just good for the climate — it disproportionately protects the global poor appeared first on Market Forces.

Typhoon Halong decimated several Indigenous villages in remote western Alaska, including Kipnuk, where plans to build a protective storm wall were thwarted by the Trump administration’s cancellation of climate change funding. Now, with 90% of the village destroyed, the community’s high‑stakes decision to rebuild or relocate becomes even more urgent. 

The records are part of more than 68,000 pages of records obtained by EDF and the Union of Concerned Scientists as as the result of a lawsuit.

By Edwin LaMair, Senior Attorney, U.S. Legal & Regulatory, EDF and Ryan J. Call, Policy and Campaigns Specialist, Eco-Cycle Landfills are a major – and growing – source of harmful pollution When food scraps and yard waste end up in landfills, they rot and release dangerous air pollution. That pollution includes methane – a greenhouse gas more ... The post Colorado sets leading standards for cleaning up landfill methane appeared first on Energy Exchange.

EDF, NRDC, and Sierra Club are moving to help defend California protective clean vehicle standards in court.

Americans don’t want potentially toxic chemicals fast-tracked into their lives,” said Slaney.  The post Toxics for all: The new proposal delivering on the chemical industry’s wish list first appeared on EDF Health.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently proposed eliminating its Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) — a critical source of public data that shows the sources and scale of pollution that causes climate change, including from oil and gas facilities, landfills, large industrial and manufacturing facilities, and power plants. This data is widely used by policymakers, scientists, businesses, and communities to inform how to address climate pollution. In short, the ... The post As states step up to secure emissions data in the face of potential federal rollbacks, others should follow suit appeared first on Climate 411.

California’s clean energy transition is no longer a question of whether the state electrifies, but how it does so – quickly, affordably and equitably. That reality makes one thing clear: grid planning matters more than ever. Over the past year, state regulators have taken a series of important actions to modernize how the state’s large ... The post California is getting grid planning right – now we actually need to build it appeared first on Energy Exchange.

A new study shows a growing share of greenhouse gas emissions is coming from natural, unmanaged ecosystems in response to human-caused warming.

Carbon markets as a solution to core weaknesses of debt-for-climate swaps

Efforts to fight climate change are still happening within the business community, at the state level, and around the world, despite Trump administration attacks.

El Departamento de Energía de los Estados Unidos cancela el financiamiento para proyectos comunitarios de energía solar en Puerto Rico

The U.S. Department of Energy Cancels funding for community solar energy projects in Puerto Rico