Media - Rachel Carson Council

We cover climate justice from every angle, every day. Our publications include three monthly newsletters, the most compelling research and writing from campuses around the country, reports used by policy professionals and cited in the Congressional Record, and an expertly curated weekly digest. Support independent media today.

RCC Response to the 2024 Election: Weathering the Storm 11-14-24

The results from Tuesday are not what we wanted to see. The re-election of Donald Trump—a convicted felon, inveterate climate denier, misogynist, and racist—feels like a huge step back in terms of progress on the environment and justice the Rachel Carson Council has fought for and gained over the last four years.

We have collectively rallied outside federal agencies for pollution rules, expanded and deepened the RCC’s leadership on campuses nationwide in finding and supporting the next generation of environmental leaders for climate justice, and amassed hard-fought wins at the federal, state, and local levels, including the historic Inflation Reduction Act, passed by the Biden-Harris Administration. All these victories are now jeopardized by the storm that will arrive with the incoming 47th President of the United States.

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

INCOMING RACHEL CARSON COUNCIL ASSISTANT DIRECTOR WINS NATIONAL AWARD FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE STORYTELLING 04-30-24

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 the Biden Administration’s Proposed Final Five-Year Plan for Oil and Gas Offshore Drilling 09-29-23

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

ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF DEEPWATER HORIZON, THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A BETTER TIME TO DITCH OFFSHORE DRILLING 04-20-23

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