Frontier Group (Non-Profit Think Tank)

More than half of all U.S. beaches had at least one day in 2022 when the water was potentially unsafe for swimming. How did the beaches in your state fare? And what can we do to protect our water and our health? Our new report with Environment America has more. https://lnkd.in/gg9hFWhW

Federal action on climate matters. But states and cities don't have to wait on Washington to cut climate pollution. A new post by Niloufar Yarahmadi and Theodora Rosen checks in on states that have committed to reducing emissions since 2017 and finds examples of solid progress - examples that show the potential of continued state and local leadership to cut emissions in the years to come. https://lnkd.in/ehDzATE2

Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's new book proposes reorienting American politics around the pursuit of "Abundance." But what if we have already largely achieved abundance and nobody noticed? Associate Director and Senior Policy Analyst Tony Dutzik asks that provocative question in a new review of "Abundance" that questions whether the no-holds-barred pursuit of "more" is really the cure for the most important problems affecting our country and our world. https://lnkd.in/eSGukH72

Too many of our electronics aren’t built to last. They break easily and can be nearly impossible to repair. Producing new stuff creates massive amounts of carbon pollution and requires the extraction of additional minerals, taking a serious toll on the environment and our health. Our new interactive visualization with PIRG asks: How much pollution could we prevent if 12 common electronic devices were built to last just one year longer? For laptops and desktops, that extra year of life would prevent the same amount of carbon pollution as taking 250,000 typical cars off the road for a year in the U.S. To see the benefits for more products, and drill down into the data for your state, visit the website: https://lnkd.in/etFGDUmR

Senior Policy Analyst Tony Dutzik spoke with The Guardian about the rush to mine the ocean floor for minerals to power the global energy transition: "To commit to that long-term disruption [of deep-sea mining] on the basis of uncertain forecasts in a rapidly evolving and malleable technological landscape is deeply unwise." Check out the Guardian's interactive story on deep-sea mining here: https://lnkd.in/eyhva36M And, for more on sustainable alternative approaches that can reduce pressure to mine for critical minerals, see our 2024 report with Environment America Research and Policy Center and U.S. PIRG Education Fund, "We Don't Need Deep-Sea Mining": https://lnkd.in/e3Ht2BTN

More schools are taking action to ensure safe, lead-free drinking water for kids, installing filters, replacing fountains and tightening standards for lead contamination. A new post by policy associate Niloufar Yarahmadi and Environment America's John Rumpler reviews progress in three leading cities and urges school districts across the country to take stronger action to get the lead out of school drinking water - for good. https://lnkd.in/eug4zNvS

Ever have trouble finding a place to charge your electric vehicle? You're not alone. But the problem isn't always with finding a charger ... it's with finding a charger that works, is easy to use, and has the type of charging cable you need. The good news, as policy associate Niloufar Yaar writes in her debut post, is that the last few years have seen important efforts to improve charger reliability, simplify payments, and standardize connectors - helping drivers to get more use from the chargers we've already built. https://lnkd.in/eiz93w2J

In 2024, Frontier Group research highlighted new strategies for tackling plastic waste, challenged the need for destructive deep-sea mining, tracked America's renewable energy progress and much more. Our year-in-review post summarizes our work in 2024 and provides a sneak preview of new research we'll be publishing in early 2025. Thank you to everyone who supported, shared or read our work this past year. Here's to a meaningful and impactful 2025! https://lnkd.in/eVhmBHj2

America produces more than three times as much power from solar, wind and geothermal power as we did a decade ago, according to our eighth annual Renewables on the Rise dashboard with Environment America. The dashboard provides detailed data on trends in the growth of clean energy across all 50 states, from solar and wind power to electric vehicles to battery energy storage. The big picture: Clean, renewable energy is now a 50-state story, with rapid growth not just in the "usual suspect" states (e.g. California and Texas) but also in regions such as the Southeast, which have historically lagged. To find out more about trends in your state, explore the dashboard here: https://lnkd.in/erZuWsTc

Fourteen years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, many of the ocean species impacted by the spill are still suffering. Even as science continues to find new and disturbing things about the long-term impacts of the disaster, new proposals on the table to expand offshore drilling show that the lessons of Deepwater Horizon have not been learned. Our new post documents the severe - and ongoing - damage done by the spill, and questions why the U.S. is courting disaster once again. https://lnkd.in/ecgYwNPe