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Quentin Foster: Climate411

California Models Climate and Air Pollution Action with Balanced Approach

Quentin Foster: Climate411

Katelyn Roedner Sutter: Climate411

Top 10 Wins for the 2022 California Legislative Session

Katelyn Roedner Sutter: Climate411

With one week to act, California needs to pass these policies to drive climate progress and protect communities

Katelyn Roedner Sutter: Climate411

The scoop on the Scoping Plan: California’s plan relies too heavily on emerging technologies (Part 3)

Katelyn Roedner Sutter: Climate411

May brings another record auction for the Western Climate Initiative, as California considers how to ramp up climate action

Katelyn Roedner Sutter: Climate411

Western Climate Initiative ends the year on a high note with record prices

Katelyn Roedner Sutter: Climate411

Cutting pollution, driving investment: US state leaders shared ambitious models for action at COP26

Katelyn Roedner Sutter: Climate411

Western Climate Initiative auction hits a new record, raising over a billion in proceeds for California

Katelyn Roedner Sutter: Climate411

With the Climate Crisis Act, California can lock in a safer pathway to net-zero emissions

Katelyn Roedner Sutter: Climate411

California needs to raise its ambition to beat the climate crisis. This policy will be key.

Katelyn Roedner Sutter: Climate411

Western Climate Initiative recovering from COVID-19, and the new climate kid in town

Katelyn Roedner Sutter: Climate411

The Climate Commitment Act could be game-changing for Washington state and the country: Here’s what you should know

Katelyn Roedner Sutter: Climate411

Washington state moves closer to comprehensive climate policy, strengthening its climate leadership

Katelyn Roedner Sutter: Climate411

Latest Western Climate Initiative auction sells out; still space for more climate ambition from cap and trade

Katelyn Roedner Sutter: Climate411

Washington state can make good on its climate promises and close the emissions gap

Katelyn Roedner Sutter: Climate411

Emissions are down and cap-and-trade revenue is up, but California’s Scoping Plan must accelerate climate ambition

Katelyn Roedner Sutter: Climate411

Western Climate Initiative auction strengthens as state has opportunity to increase its climate ambition

Katelyn Roedner Sutter: Climate411

Western Climate Initiative auction results show resilience of cap and trade and benefit of long-term climate investment strategy

Katelyn Roedner Sutter: Climate411

California’s experience with buyer liability shows how aviation can help ensure environmental integrity

Katelyn Roedner Sutter: Climate411

California must defend rules to protect health, especially now

Katelyn Roedner Sutter: Climate411

California-Quebec carbon auction kicks off 2020 with record allowance price

Katelyn Roedner Sutter: Climate411

California climate program remains solid as transportation emissions fall

Katelyn Roedner Sutter: Climate411

California releases updated Tropical Forest Standard: Here are the highlights and why CARB should endorse it

Katelyn Roedner Sutter: Climate411

In strong WCI auction, prices clear significantly above floor. Here’s why.

Katelyn Roedner Sutter: Climate411

California-Quebec market continues to thrive

Katelyn Roedner Sutter: Climate411

Full compliance, declining emissions, robust auction: It’s November in California’s cap-and-trade program

Katelyn Roedner Sutter: Climate411

Western Climate Initiative: Stability reigns after Ontario exit as all current and future allowances sell

Katelyn Roedner Sutter: Climate411

Second California-Quebec-Ontario carbon auction sells out, showing market’s strength

Katelyn Roedner Sutter: Climate411

Gabriela Leslie: Climate411

International trading of emissions reductions could greatly increase global climate ambition

Gabriela Leslie: Climate411

Maurice Hall: Growing Returns

Measuring irrigated water use has been a challenge for decades. This new tool will change that.

Maurice Hall: Growing Returns

A low snowpack makes it imperative to better manage groundwater supplies. Here’s how.

Maurice Hall: Growing Returns

Water missed the main stage at the Global Climate Action Summit. It should be front and center.

Maurice Hall: Growing Returns

How water managers can address surface water depletions – California’s “sixth deadly sin”

Maurice Hall: Growing Returns

For California water managers, establishing new traditions takes time

Maurice Hall: Growing Returns

The hidden opportunity for water storage in California

Maurice Hall: Growing Returns

What the Oroville Dam crisis tells us about natural infrastructure

Maurice Hall: Growing Returns

From Tennessee to the arid West, water runs through my work

Maurice Hall: Growing Returns

Growing Returns: Endangered Species Act

In Louisiana, brown pelicans emerge as a sign of hope, recovery and resilience

Growing Returns: Endangered Species Act

The monarch ESA listing is delayed 18 months. Here’s what you need to know.

Growing Returns: Endangered Species Act

Monarch butterflies are migrating in large numbers, with support from some unlikely allies

Growing Returns: Endangered Species Act

Trump attacks vital conservation tool for threatened and endangered species, misses real problem

Growing Returns: Endangered Species Act

As much as Trump would like, economics do not trump science. These laws say so.

Growing Returns: Endangered Species Act

Trump’s ESA overhaul won’t give Americans what they want. Here’s what will.

Growing Returns: Endangered Species Act

Raise a glass (of tequila!) to celebrate this endangered bat’s recovery

Growing Returns: Endangered Species Act

A rare desert wildflower is no longer endangered, but the law that saved it may be

Growing Returns: Endangered Species Act

EDF Voices: Mark Rupp

Why a Supreme Court case over a single frog could jeopardize wildlife for years to come

EDF Voices: Mark Rupp

Why a Supreme Court case over a single frog could jeopardize wildlife for years to come

EDF Voices: Mark Rupp

The Trump administration's ESA plan is as illegal as it's bad for wildlife. Here are 4 reasons why.

EDF Voices: Mark Rupp

The Trump administration's ESA plan is as illegal as it's bad for wildlife. Here are 4 reasons why.

EDF Voices: Mark Rupp

Sara Kroopf: EDF+Business

Food and agriculture companies: a challenge from a millennial mom

Sara Kroopf: EDF+Business

Food and agriculture companies: a challenge from a millennial mom

Sara Kroopf: EDF+Business

Why Investments in Agricultural Carbon Markets Make Good Business Sense

Sara Kroopf: EDF+Business

Natalie Peyronnin Snider: Growing Returns

Hurricane season is here again. And finally, leaders are addressing multiple flood risks.

Natalie Peyronnin Snider: Growing Returns

A new way of partnering with the Corps leads to innovative wetland mitigation solutions and increased flood resilience.

Natalie Peyronnin Snider: Growing Returns

Building climate resilience requires a whole-of-government approach. Here’s how Louisiana is making it happen.

Natalie Peyronnin Snider: Growing Returns

The sea is rising faster than ever. How can we prepare?

Natalie Peyronnin Snider: Growing Returns

New Army Corps guidelines will expand natural infrastructure to reduce flood risk and more

Natalie Peyronnin Snider: Growing Returns

5 ways FEMA and states can leverage financial tools to build resilience, fast

Natalie Peyronnin Snider: Growing Returns

Hurricane season is here. We need a national plan to protect our coastal communities.

Natalie Peyronnin Snider: Growing Returns

New York and New Jersey face serious flood risks. Here’s how the Army Corps can address them.

Natalie Peyronnin Snider: Growing Returns

4 ways to reduce disproportionate flood risk and build resilience for all communities

Natalie Peyronnin Snider: Growing Returns

Virginia takes one big step toward a more resilient future

Natalie Peyronnin Snider: Growing Returns

From Louisiana to New York, coastal leaders come together to build climate resilience

Natalie Peyronnin Snider: Growing Returns

More Americans are at risk of flooding than ever before. Here’s how to address this new reality.

Natalie Peyronnin Snider: Growing Returns

Hurricanes are getting stronger, more dangerous and forming earlier. Here’s how we can prepare.

Natalie Peyronnin Snider: Growing Returns

New Jersey prepares for future with seas rising faster than anticipated

Natalie Peyronnin Snider: Growing Returns

Coastal states need resilience plans. Here are six essential elements.

Natalie Peyronnin Snider: Growing Returns

Mississippi River flooding and Hurricane Barry could have inundated New Orleans. Here are four actions we need to take before that happens again.

Natalie Peyronnin Snider: Growing Returns

Repeat opening of Bonnet Carré Spillway is a sign we need to manage rivers differently

Natalie Peyronnin Snider: Growing Returns

How can we reduce losses from coastal storms? Monitor the health of our coasts.

Natalie Peyronnin Snider: Growing Returns

Climate change will force us to make tough decisions. Adaptive management can help.

Natalie Peyronnin Snider: Growing Returns

What the world can learn from Louisiana about living with climate change

Natalie Peyronnin Snider: Growing Returns

Devyani Kar: Growing Returns

Three ways nature can help rebuild and protect communities following Cyclone Fani

Devyani Kar: Growing Returns

Coastal communities must plan for the future instead of planning from the past

Devyani Kar: Growing Returns

Steve Cochran: Growing Returns

Largest ecosystem restoration project in U.S. history provides model for climate adaptation

Steve Cochran: Growing Returns

3 actions Congress can take now to build more resilient coasts

Steve Cochran: Growing Returns

Ten years after the BP oil spill, restoration offers hope for the Gulf

Steve Cochran: Growing Returns

In Louisiana, brown pelicans emerge as a sign of hope, recovery and resilience

Steve Cochran: Growing Returns

Louisiana kids make a play for coastal comeback in Super Bowl ad

Steve Cochran: Growing Returns

This new technology allows you to visit coastal Louisiana from your couch

Steve Cochran: Growing Returns