Just Transition: Workers’ Rights are Human Rights
Greetings from Paris. Week two of climate negotiations is now underway!
Blog / Clean Vehicles and Fuels
On Thursday the U.S. House and Senate passed a 5-year $305 Billion transportation bill, the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (or “FAST’” Act), and on Friday the President signed it.
Blog / Climate Change & the Clean Economy
Green buildings and more efficient building practices and materials have taken the construction sector in the U.S. by storm and a new study shows that a third of the U.S. construction market could be green by 2018.
Blog / Climate Change & the Clean Economy
U.S. cities are struggling with aging infrastructure. Ahead of the Paris climate talks, a new report calls on cities worldwide to develop urban development strategies focused on building efficiency, public transit, waste management, & renewable energy.
Blog / Climate Change & the Clean Economy
The EPA recently finalized the Clean Power Plan that will limit carbon pollution from existing power plants. Under it each state must create a blueprint for their state to meet it called a State Implementation Plan (SIP) over the next two to three years.
Blog / Climate Change & the Clean Economy
President Obama, along with 13 of the country’s largest companies, announced a number of impactful measures that represent forward progress on climate action. The business pledges reinforce our commitment to climate change and to facing it head on.
Blog / Climate Change & the Clean Economy
This week, the Senate Finance Committee approved legislation that would revive some very important clean energy tax credits. Approval by the Finance Committee is just the beginning though.
Blog / Natural Gas Distribution Infrastructure
What do Boston, New York, Indianapolis and Syracuse all have in common? They’re all cities part of the Environmental Defense Fund’s (EDF) methane leaks interactive data map of where the methane leaks are located in a given city.
Blog / Clean Vehicles and Fuels
The opinion piece, “Let our Cities Move,” in Wednesday’s New York Times by Mayors DeBlasio of New York City and Cornett of Oklahoma City underscores the critical importance of reinvesting in America’s transportation infrastructure.