Just when you thought the U.S. Senate couldn't do any less for clean energy and the environment than it's (not) done so far, we now face the real possibility of what would amount to a "stop-work order"on the 40-year-old, wildly successful (e.g., studies finding benefits outweighing costs at a...

As the full scope of the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico continues to unfold, there's another energy-related drama in California. This one threatens the Golden State's landmark law (AB 32) to limit the greenhouse gas pollution that is already harming California and to promote a host of related...

BP's oil gusher has induced a collective sense of helplessness, and even despair, in many Americans, while underscoring our country's long-standing failure to develop a serious national energy policy. But helplessness and despair are precisely the wrong reactions to the worst environmental catastrophe in U.S. history.

In an Op-Ed...

On June 10th, we all celebrated the defeat of the heinous Murkowski resolution, which would have gutted the EPA's ability to regulate carbon dioxide pollution. Why we needed to defeat Murkowski was explained well by NRDC Action Fund Executive Director, Peter Lehner, who wrote...