Break the waste cycle
Election Day is less than a week away, and come January, returning and newly elected legislators will face a mounting plastic waste crisis. Nearly 100,000 tons of plastic -- enough to fill roughly 1.5...
View ArticleBlueprint for America
Americans agree: Our nation’s infrastructure needs work. This report provides the blueprint that should form the basis of an infrastructure plan that will make America stronger today and lay the...
View ArticleA Path to Cleaner Water
America’s waterways are a national asset. They are the places we swim on hot summer days, kayak with friends and family, spend a relaxing day fishing, and so much more. Yet billions of gallons of...
View ArticleMoving Forward Together
The 2020 election suggested that Americans are more divided than at any time in recent history. But in reality, there are a surprising number of public policies on which Republicans, Democrats and...
View ArticleSuperfund Underfunded
One in six Americans lives within 3 miles of a proposed or approved Superfund toxic waste site. Yet the program to clean up these sites has experienced a declining budget, and success, putting people...
View ArticleBlueprint for America
Americans agree: Our nation’s infrastructure needs work. This report provides the blueprint that should form the basis of an infrastructure plan that will make America stronger today and lay the...
View ArticleA Perfect Storm
Today, one in five Americans lives within just three miles of a Superfund toxic waste site. Contaminants of concern at these sites include arsenic, lead, mercury, benzene, dioxin, and other hazardous...
View ArticleReady to Charge Factsheet
Electric vehicles (EVs) are ready to deliver a future of clean transportation. However, in order to facilitate mass adoption, Iowa needs more public charging infrastructure. Local, state and federal...
View ArticleWe Have the Power
America has the power to build an energy system in which our energy comes from clean, renewable sources like the wind and sun.
View ArticleBlocking Rooftop Solar
Solar power is helping move the United States toward a future of 100% renewable energy, while reducing global warming pollution, cleaning up the air in our communities, and empowering homeowners and...
View ArticleSafe for swimming?
Americans love clean water. Every year, millions of us flock to our waterways to swim, surf, or go tubing, kayaking or fishing. That’s why the federal Clean Water Act set a goal of making all our...
View ArticleReconnecting Nature
An inside look into 7 ways people are working to reconnect nature in the United States.
View ArticleTrash in America
The United States produces too much waste. Natural resources are continually extracted to produce goods that are used in the U.S. – often only briefly – before they are thrown into landfills,...
View ArticleTrouble in the Air
More than one in six Americans, 58.4 million people, suffered through more than 100 days of elevated air pollution in 2020. Our report calls attention to the very real public health problems air...
View ArticleRenewables on the Rise 2021
Clean energy is sweeping across America and is poised for more dramatic growth in the coming years. Wind turbines and solar panels made up a tiny fraction of our energy infrastructure 10 years ago....
View ArticleAn Electric Vehicle Toolkit for Local Governments
Local governments have an important role to play in making clean transportation a reality. Every day, local governments make decisions about municipal purchasing, the use of public streets and parking...
View ArticleFunding the Future of Superfund
The Superfund toxic waste cleanup program is in charge of cleaning up America's most dangerous toxic waste sites. But for years, it's been underfunded, which has slowed down cleanup and put more people...
View ArticleProgress Report: President Biden’s First Year
Following years of rollbacks, President Joe Biden began his term nearly a year ago amidst unprecedented environmental and public health challenges. Despite these obstacles, his administration has made...
View ArticleSolar on Superstores
Solar energy is the fastest-growing form of electricity generation in the United States. America has 40 times as much solar electricity generation capacity as in 2010. That’s because the U.S. has a...
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