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How States Stack Up on Flood Disclosure

1 week ago | nrdc.org

Millions of Americans live in homes at risk of flooding, and a home that has flooded once is likely to get hit again....
Can Trump Block State Climate Action?

1 week ago | nrdc.org | David Doniger

Like a modern-day version of the 10 plagues, climate disasters continue to fall on Americans all across the country. The North Carolina hurricane, the Los Angeles wildfires, Kentucky’s deadly flooding, and the start of Phoenix’s are just the latest signs. But like a modern-day pharaoh, President Trump is busy issuing executive orders to prop up dirty coal, oil, and gas polluters and block the transition to cleaner, safer energy.
What Trump Gets Wrong About the Electricity Grid

2 weeks ago | nrdc.org | Kit Kennedy |Dana Ammann |Sustainable FERC

Clean energy lowers electricity system costs—and fossil fuel power increases them One of the great strengths of clean power is that its fuel—the sun, the wind—is free and abundant. Zero-marginal cost renewables reduce wholesale power prices. When gas- and coal-powered plants run less often because of greater reliance on clean energy and energy efficiency, wholesale prices—the blended cost of all the plants that are operating—go down because fuel is the largest cost of fossil plants.
Alaska’s Tongass National Forest at Risk Once Again

2 weeks ago | nrdc.org | Courtney Lindwall

For NRDC attorney Garett Rose, it’s the way the Tongass National Forest shapes his sense of time that feels most powerful. Just looking around—at the towering, 800-year-old spruce trees; at the icy fjords carved by retreating glaciers; at the spawning salmon, making runs down the same Alaskan rivers they’ve traveled for thousands of years—it’s “like standing at the edge of Grand Canyon, thinking about how long it’s taken those rivers to carve that desert landscape,” Rose says.
The Truth About Electric Vehicles and the Grid: Strengthening—Not Straining—Our Energy Future

1 month ago | nrdc.org

EVs enhance stability, flexibility, and long-term resilience of the power grid.
We Need NOAA Now More Than Ever

1 month ago | nrdc.org | Courtney Lindwall |Brad Sewell |Matthew McKinzie

Everyone should be concerned about the fate of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) right now. Current employees are certainly alarmed—not only for their jobs but also for the crucial work they do in the name of science and public safety. Representatives of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), overseen by Elon Musk, startled NOAA staff last month when they entered the agency’s Maryland headquarters unannounced to gain access to its IT systems.
EPA Abdicates on Climate Change by Moving to Nix Endangerment Finding

1 month ago | nrdc.org | David Doniger

WASHINGTON, D.C. - In response to an executive order from President Donald Trump, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin recommended striking down EPA’s 2009 finding that climate change endangers human health and welfare, according to publishedreports. The move comes as more and more climate-fueled disasters are harming people and communities across the nation.
Trump’s Cuts to FEMA Leave Us Unprepared for Disasters

1 month ago | nrdc.org | Rob Moore

Media Contact Ivan Moreno Strategic Communications Manager President Trump and his administration have begun terminating hundreds of staff at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).This continues an assault on the agency and its staff that the president started during the election campaign, and it leaves the entire country more vulnerable to the effects of disasters.
American Water Works Association et al. v. EPA (“Forever Chemicals” in Tap Water)

2 months ago | nrdc.org

NRDC and our allies are fighting to keep the new PFAS rule in place and get these toxic chemicals out of drinking water.
United Kingdom Hands Billions More in Subsidies to Drax for Tree-Burning Bioenergy

2 months ago | nrdc.org | Matt Williams

The U.K. government has announced that it will continue subsidizing Drax’s large bioenergy power stations beyond 2027, when current subsidies are scheduled to expire. However, the government is limiting the role of Drax to less than half of today’s production levels. This is a step in the right direction but still a bitter blow for those who care about forests and the climate. The government is also claiming that new sustainability standards will help.