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RCC Statement On Supporting the Children’s Health Protection Act of 2024 10-10-24
Since their inception in 1997, the EPA’s Children’s Health Protection Office (the Office) and the Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee (the Committee) have been key in increasing the environmental health literacy in our country. Tasked with research, rulemaking, policymaking, and enforcement, the Office addresses chemical management, community programs, and more to tackle threats to prenatal and childhood environmental threats. The Committee has played an instrumental role in advising the EPA Administrator on the priorities of the Office.
RCC Statement: No Tax Credits for Forest Biomass 08-21-24
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and U.S. Treasury are reviewing eligibility requirements for clean electricity tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). In addition to solar, wind, and other renewables, the IRS is weighing how to treat combustion-based or gasification-based processes—including forest biomass burning, waste incineration, and landfill/biogas—under IRA credits.
What’s Really Behind the GOP Drive to ‘Save the Whales’ From Offshore Wind? 06-29-24
Think tanks funded by ultra-conservative donors and fossil fuel companies coopted a coalition of “grassroots” opposition organizations to stop the development of clean energy, despite the fact that oil and gas are the true threats to ocean life. By Claudia Steiner
RCC Statement on Tragic Orlando Bus Accident 05-22-24
Joining the Rachel Carson Council as Assistant Director of Policy and Programs, Joy Reeves has won the 2024 Planet Forward Storyfest award for Best Multimedia Story by a Non-Media Student
Burning the Future: Shedding Light on the Destructive Wood Pellet Industry in North Carolina 09-30-23
On September 30, 2023, the Rachel Carson Council (RCC) and the Southern Forests Conservation Coalition (SFCC) led a cruise down Wilmington, North Carolina’s Cape Fear river to expose the environmental health and ecological wreckage caused by the wood pellet industry. The world’s largest producer of wood pellets, Enviva, has laid waste to thousands of acres of forest in North Carolina and throughout the United States Southeast, clear cutting trees that crucially serve as carbon storage, sickening communities from pollutants, and seriously debilitating coastal ecosystems.
RCC Statement on Senator Hickenlooper and Representative Peter’s Big Wires Act 09-15-23
Lawmakers Urge Biden to Phase Out Fossil Fuels in Advance of Climate Ambition Summit 09-15-23
Lawmakers, Youth, Frontline Advocates Rally in D.C. to Urge Biden Action on Fossil Fuels Thursday 09-11-23
RCC STATEMENT ON SACKETT v. EPA AND WETLANDS PROTECTIONS 06-07-23
RCC STATEMENT ON THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION ENERGY PERMITTING PRIORITIES 05-18-23
MARYLAND LEGISLATURE PASSES PFAS TESTING BILL 04-13-23
RACHEL CARSON COUNCIL TO MARCH TO EPA APRIL 4 to DEMAND AGENCY RESUME INDUSTRY POLLUTION RULEMAKING 04-03-23
ON THE STATE OF OUR OCEANS STATEMENT 03-30-23
RACHEL CARSON COUNCIL HIRES MACKENZIE BODMAN AS ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF CIVIC AND CAMPUS ENGAGEMENT 03-17-23
RACHEL CARSON COUNCIL HIRES FMR. SEN. LEAHY STAFFER MAYA COHN AS DIRECTOR OF POLICY & PROGRAMS 03-10-23
RCC’S PRESIDENT IN LEADING SCIENTISTS’ LETTER TO BIDEN 10-20-22
THE ENVIVA SOUTHHAMPTON PLANT & ENVIVA’S FOURTH EXPANSION IN A YEAR 09-19-19