Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund I just reviewed the U.S. Department of Transportation’s draft 5-year strategic plan, posted on Monday. There is nothing green about the plan, despite the fact that my heart jumped when I spotted the word “environment” under the first objective of the first goal. The mention turned out to […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund A researcher collects water samples on the Nisqually River in Washington. In Wyoming, the same act carries threat of stiff criminal and civil penalties, due to the state’s data censorship laws. Emily Brouwer/Flickr In the vast expanse of the West, public roads often cross private lands with little […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Pixabay As Stephen King’s “It” frightens moviegoers nationwide this Halloween season, I’m reminded how the best-selling author once described the levels of a scary story—“terror on top, horror below it, and lowest of all, the gag reflex of revulsion.” Terror is exemplified in the beating of Edgar Allen […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Not enough attention is being paid to two wholly unnecessary, risky and costly proposed natural gas pipelines that could impact the environment and quality of life in Virginia, North Carolina, and West Virginia for decades to come. But there’s plenty of time to stop them from being constructed, […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Co-Authored by Dr. Dileep Mavalankar and Sayantan Sarkar It’s Diwali season, India’s festival of lights. This Diwali, like last year, cities are seeing alarming pollution levels – with Ahmedabad at “very poor” and New Delhi at “severe”. An in-depth Lancet study again rings the alarm bell to act […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The Heartland Institute and its polluter allies have a clear message for Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): You’re not doing enough for your fossil fuel friends. Sure, the EPA is rolling back climate rules, removing scientific information from its website, and giving special preference to industry shills on […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The rapid pace of technology-driven innovation in shared transportation presents tremendous opportunities, as well as risks. The impending advent of self-driving vehicles, for example, will have a profound impact on livelihoods, congestion and urban land use. At the same time, city streets are a finite and scarce resource. […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Dr. Michael Anthony Mendez on the subject of his new book, Climate Change from the Streets, and the readiness of Latinos to act on climate and justice. Consulting with Sacramento school board president Jay Hansen on vacant land reserved for a 3-acre instructional urban farm and community garden […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Today, the House Natural Resources Committee is considering proposed legislation to transfer permitting of oil and gas activities on your public lands to the states. We all want a secure and prosperous energy future. The question is how to get there. The proposed “Opportunities for the Nation and […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Ohio is ground zero for a transition that has been underway in the electric sector for years—an unstoppable shift from a high-pollution, fossil-fueled past to a safer, cleaner-powered future. Cleveland Wind Turbine Flickr, Creative Commons Coal-fired power once dominated Ohio’s electric generation mix, but coal (and for that […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Sunset2 by Barbara Eckstein via Creative Commons As Michigan moves forward on clean energy and climate action, President Trump counters with attempts to undo the Clean Power Plan and prop up coal and nuclear plants. At a time when the administration should be supporting the progress made in […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The Trump Environmental Protection Agency has announced plans to try to repeal the Clean Power Plan, and deny Americans annual health benefits that include avoiding 3,600 premature deaths; 90,000 asthma attacks in children; 1,700 hospital admissions; and 300,000 missed days of school and work. The EPA’s Clean Power […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund India Green News: India could end up as one of the worst affected by climate change; IMF; India’s renewable energy capacity to double by 2022, report says; Delhi’s air goes from moderate to poor, likely to get worse soon India Green News is a selection of news […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund In our last post, we covered how EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt fiddled with the accounts to inflate the costs of the Clean Power Plan, when in reality the rule is achievable at even lower cost than the EPA originally projected. In this post, we’ll focus on how Pruitt […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Today, the Trump Administration is releasing its proposal to repeal the Clean Power Plan, which set the first-ever limits on carbon pollution from power plants – one of our country’s largest sources of the pollution driving climate change. Scott Pruitt’s political team at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Speaking on FOX News from Hazard, Kentucky, as the season’s fourth hurricane still pummels the southeast, EPA chief Scott Pruitt said that tomorrow he will propose to repeal the Clean Power Plan, the landmark Obama-era regulation to cut the power plant pollution that’s driving dangerous climate change and […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Scott Pruitt is ignoring the law on air quality, NRDC sues on behalf of endangered species, and the Clean Power Plan is in jeopardy. Bill Dickinson/Flickr Actions speak louder than words, Mr. Administrator. From his first days in office, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt vowed that the […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The nation’s second annual Energy Efficiency Day is today and serves to remind us of the incredibly important role smarter energy use plays in America’s transition to a cleaner, healthier, more affordable energy system. Many state and local governments, utilities, and consumers are doubling down on efficiency programs […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s illegal suspension of rules to cut methane pollution from drilling operations on public lands is the latest example of the Trump administration’s cavalier disregard for vital public health and environmental safeguards. The Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) today proposed to suspend its Methane and […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Royal Dutch Shell’s Arctic oil drilling rig arrived in Elliott Bay, May 2015. iStock In January 1969, an oil spill from an offshore drilling platform off California’s Santa Barbara County coast spewed an estimated three million gallons of crude, swiftly turning a 35-mile stretch of idyllic Pacific shoreline […]