The Climate Voters’ Handbook: Colorado
The fight for our climate starts in Colorado. Colorado must lead on climate action. As wildfires, heat waves, and droughts harm our communities and grow worse …
Week 51: Back to the Drawing Board, Rick Perry
FERC smacks down Rick Perry on coal, Zinke plays favorites with Florida, and Pruitt is investigated (again). Rick Perry Gets Totally FERC’d The Federal Energy …
The Climate Voters’ Handbook: Michigan
Michigan’s climate future is up for a vote. Michigan races, ballot proposals, and voter access are being closely watched around the country. And in a state thi…
Want to Fight MAGA? Help Flip this House Seat!
On February 13, we have an opportunity to help elect a proven environmental champion to the U.S. House of Representatives and take the first step towards flipp…
Climate change threatens N.H., but GOP candidates have no answers
In the woods of central New Hampshire, Martha Carlson has a 60-acre “sugar bush” where she produces maple syrup. Carlson is part of an iconic industry that bri…
Updates | Denis Dison |Time for Senator Portman to Clear the Air
What’s Senator Rob Portman’s position on climate change? For years, Sen. Portman’s pronouncements on the issue have amounted to a series of shifting, clever ev…
NRDC Action Fund’s Weekly News Summary
Here’s what the NRDC Action Fund has been reading this week: When a crackpot runs for president (The New York Times) — “There are crackpots w…
Updates | Jeff Popkin |Kavanaugh’s Clouded Environmental Record
Unless something extraordinary happens, Chairman Chuck Grassley will gavel to order the Senate Judiciary hearings on Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the …
Trump Recommends a Climate Change Minimizer as NOAA Chief Scientist
Ryan Maue, a self-described “lukewarmist,” is the second climate contrarian headed to NOAA within a month. The count is now at two for climate contrarians head…
Week 8: Trump Jeopardizes the Auto Industry—and Federal Government Jobs
As dirtier cars hit the streets, the president’s fuel efficiency rollbacks and budget proposal will have thousands pounding the pavement. The Budget Drops Afte…
Week 110: Has Trump Forgotten the Lessons of the Gulf Oil Disaster?
Offshore drillers don’t have to follow safety rules, and an EPA official says Congress should stop asking so many questions (about how she’s not doing her job)…
Prop 30 Delivers for Californians Who Walk, Roll and Ride
We estimate Prop 30 will invest at least $18 billion in transportation programs that help Californians get around without having to get in a car. If you…
Week 46: Trump Shrinks Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante—and Gains Lawsuits
Trump primes for drilling under a national treasure, Murkowski makes inroads in the Tongass, and there’s no stopping the oil trains. We Can’t Bear It President…
Week 50: When It Gets Cold, Trump’s Climate Change Denial Heats Up
Trump bloviates on climate, blows off the United Nations, and deregulates blowout preventers. Ice-Cold Nonsense Donald Trump ended a year of climate change fli…
Week 146: Trump Starts the Paris Withdrawal Clock (and Nudges the Doomsday Clock Forward)
The president’s promise to renegotiate the international climate agreement was always a smogscreen, the oil industry has a red phone at Interior, and will Trum…
The Truth About H. Res. 987
In yet another blatant display of putting polluters over people, House Republicans have shown their hand with House Resolution 987. The content of this resolut…
Congress | Valerie Cleland and Josh Axelrod |Donald Trump vs. the Planet
Donald Trump is heading into Super Tuesday as the likely victor in several Republican primaries (and the current odds-on favorite to win the GOP nomination), s…
Updates | Denis Dison |A Budget That Scorches the Planet
President Trump opened a new front in his assault on our environment and health on Tuesday, releasing detailed budget proposals that amount to a scorched-earth…
Historic Win for Climate Action in Virginia
Virginians secured a decisive victory for climate action in yesterday’s election, with control of both chambers of the legislature flipping to a climate and cl…
Portland Gives Its Buses the Red-Carpet Treatment
The city’s Rose Lane Project is an experiment with transit priority. Update, Feb 14: Last night, the Portland City Council passed the Rose Lane Project! Dozens…
Local | Amanda Eaken and Elizabeth Stampe |