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NRDC Report: Climate Law to Slash Power Sector Emissions 

August 13, 2024 Press ReleaseUnited States

WASHINGTON – The climate legislation and pollution standards adopted during the Biden administration have put the U.S. power sector on track to make unprecedented progress in cutting carbon dioxide emissions. 

Coal Plants Earned $1 Billion For Knocking Cheaper Midwest Wind Offline

July 23, 2024 Press ReleaseIndiana

CARMEL, IN – New analysis commissioned by the NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) shows that customers throughout the central United States paid more than $1 billion in excess energy costs and lost out on nearly 400 megawatts of wind capacity…

Permitting Bill Is a Fossil Fuel Wolf in Clean Energy Clothing

July 23, 2024 Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.

WASHINGTON – This week Senators Joe Manchin and John Barrasso announced a permitting reform bill - the Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024 - that would dramatically alter the processes for reviewing the impacts of energy projects in the United…

EPA Boosts Toxic Air Pollution Safeguards at Coal Plants

April 25, 2024 Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.

WASHINGTON – The Biden administration today announced important new technology updates to the Environmental Protection Agency's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) for power plants that burn coal and oil, strengthening the limit on toxic particulate matter for all plants and mercury standards…

New Rule Targets Methane Waste on Federal Lands

March 27, 2024 Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.

WASHINGTON — In an effort to curb dirty methane pollution, the Bureau of Land Management released a new rule that charges industry operators for unnecessarily wasting publicly owned methane on federal and tribal lands. Right now, more than 150 billion…

Department of Energy Finalizes Major Update to Fuel-Economy Calculation

March 19, 2024 Press ReleaseUnited States

Today, the Department of Energy (DOE) finalized a rule to update a two-decade-old calculation that determines the equivalent fuel economy of electric vehicles (EVs), phasing in important adjustments to the calculation.

California Court Rules Kern County Oil, Gas Permitting Scheme Illegal

March 7, 2024 Press ReleaseFresno

A California appeals court ruled unanimously today that Kern County violated the law by using a flawed environmental review for its local oil and gas ordinance designed to fast-track permitting. This is the second time the court has ruled that…

EPA’s New Approach on Power Plant Pollution

February 29, 2024 Press ReleaseUnited States

WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency said today that it will be taking a new approach to tackling pollution from existing gas power plants, while holding firm on its timeline to finalize standards for carbon pollution from existing coal and…

Regulators Move to Reject Proposed LNG Storage Facility in Albuquerque

February 21, 2024 Press ReleaseNew Mexico

A top hearing examiner today recommended that the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission reject a proposal to build a liquefied natural gas storage facility in northwest Albuquerque on grounds that it is not needed, provides no public benefit, and has…

EPA’s Carbon Standards Are a Powerful Tool

February 15, 2024 Press ReleaseUnited States

The EPA’s standards to curb carbon emissions from power plants are crucial to addressing climate change. Strong and comprehensive rules are needed to address this major source of carbon pollution.

NRDC to Congress: The Pause on New LNG Export Permits is Commonsense Move

February 6, 2024 Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.

WASHINGTON – The Biden administration’s recent pause on Department of Energy approvals of new LNG export permits is a sensible update, NRDC will testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Energy, Climate and Grid Security, in a hearing convening today. The…

NRDC Backs WH Pause on LNG Exports Far into the Future: "The Stakes Could Not Be Higher”

January 26, 2024 Press ReleaseUnited States, International

WASHINGTON (Jan. 26, 2024) - The Biden administration hit pause on new LNG export permits while it revaluates the criteria by which it determines whether it’s in the public interest to permit massive new projects that would expand exports of…

NRDC Report: Extensive Oil & Gas Subsidies in Permian Basin Cost Billions, Drive Climate Damage and Boost Air Pollution

January 24, 2024 Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.

WASHINGTON — Amid record industry profits and rising climate damages, a new NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) report documents 57 federal and state subsidies that the fossil fuel industry receives in the Permian Basin in Texas and New Mexico that…

NRDC President on the Hottest Year on Record: “We Must Speed the Shift from Fossil Fuels”

January 12, 2024 Press ReleaseUnited States

WASHINGTON - Last year was the hottest on record, 1.2 degrees Celsius, or 2.1 degrees Fahrenheit, above the 20th-Century average, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported today.

Global Hydrogen Market Will Require Strong Climate Safeguards

December 6, 2023 Press ReleaseInternational

Three key announcements made at COP28 today will have a significant bearing on the emerging global hydrogen industry:

US Announces Over $1 Billion for Global Methane Reduction

December 2, 2023 Press ReleaseInternational

U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry announced today that the United States, the European Union, and other entities have mobilized over $1 billion in new grant funding for methane action. The grants are focused on lower income countries…

United States Makes Major Coal Announcement at COP28

December 2, 2023 Press ReleaseInternational

DUBAI (December 2, 2023)—The United States announced that it would be joining the Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA) at COP28 today, committing to a moratorium on new unabated coal plants and to phasing out existing unabated coal power generation.

240 Groups Urge Biden Administration to Take Bold Action on Plastic Pollution

November 9, 2023 Press ReleaseUnited States

As negotiations for a global plastics treaty are scheduled to resume in Nairobi, Kenya, 240 U.S. environmental, public health, and other NGOs sent a letter to the Biden administration today calling for stricter limits on plastic pollution and a crackdown…

Colorado Adopts Ambitious Clean Cars Plan, Could Secure Even Greater Benefits

October 20, 2023 Press ReleaseDenver

The Colorado Air Quality Control Commission today adopted a Colorado Clean Cars plan that will ramp up sales of clean electric vehicle sales so that more than 80 percent of new vehicles will be zero emissions vehicles by 2032, which…

Governor Newsom Stands Up to Big Oil, Protecting California Communities and Taxpayers

October 7, 2023 Press ReleaseSacramento

In a strong move to hold oil companies responsible for the economic and public health dangers of oil wells left idle and unplugged, Governor Gavin Newsom has signed AB 1167, the “Orphan Well Prevention Act,” into law. This bill, authored…