Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The Clean Power Plan, announced by President Obama in August 2015, set the first-ever limits on carbon pollution from U.S. power plants, the largest source of the pollution in the country that’s driving dangerous climate change. We are already seeing the impacts of climate change in extreme weather, droughts, […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund India Green News: ‘More serious action required than talks’: India on climate change; India to electrify every home by December 2018 using solar, storage and LEDs; Pollution regulator to double continuous air quality monitoring stations in India India Green News is a selection of news highlights about environmental […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is having more than a bad week. Atlas Tack Federal Superfund site in Fairhaven, Massachusetts; Pruitt may end payments to the Justice Department to support litigation related to the Superfund program, which tries to force polluters to pay for cleaning up sites. MassDEP What’s […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The Pruitt-Trump Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is sweeping out the old and inviting in the new, with a fresh slew of Science Advisory Board (SAB) members. As per normal, EPA initially invited public suggestions for nominees and then issued a long list of nominees (132 individuals) for public […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund This is part of a series of blogs on NRDC’s new report, “America’s Clean Energy Frontier: The Pathway to a Safer Climate Future” We can meet carbon goals with cleaner vehicles and more mobility options. Given that transportation is one of America’s leading sources of climate-warming pollution, there […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund In the face of lawsuits it couldn’t win, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has lifted its suspension of a greenhouse gas (GHG) measure for transportation, via this notice, which will be published in the Federal Register Thursday. Without notice or comment, in clear violation of the Administrative Procedure […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund This post was authored by Noah Lerner, HyoungMi Kim and Alvin Lin. China is adding its name to a growing list of countries that want to do away with fossil-fuel powered vehicles. Vice-Minister Xin Guobin of China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced on September 9 […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund A new analysis released by the nine Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) projects that electricity bills will fall compared to today’s levels, even as the states fulfill their commitment to cut RGGI’s power plant pollution cap by another 30 percent by 2030. […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The Expo line travels between Culver City and downtown Los Angeles Jarrett M/Flickr When I first moved from New York to Los Angeles, I lived in a nondescript corner of the city formed by the intersection of two of Southern California’s biggest freeways, the 405 and the 10. […]
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund As federal and state agencies failed to monitor air pollution after Hurricane Harvey, we measured and mapped a leaking carcinogen in real time. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/460484836/0/edf/blogs/feed~How-a-tech-startup-and-nimble-nonprofit-exposed-toxic-releases-during-the-Houston-flood
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund It’s Climate Week in New York and a new video, Accelerating the Electric Vehicle Market, shows that electric vehicles are essential for protecting our planet. The transportation sector is the largest U.S. source of carbon pollution and electrifying vehicles is a key strategy for cleaning up our mobility. […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund In vulnerable pockets across the globe, women are benefiting themselves, their children, and their larger communities by learning how to harness renewable energy. The barefoot solar engineers of Tinginaput, India (from left): Talsa Miniaka, Pulka Wadeka, Meenakshi Dewan, Bundei Hidreka ©Abbie Trayler-Smith/Panos Pictures/Department for International Development Proponents of […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund California continues to disprove the Trump Administration’s rant that you can’t have a healthy environment and economy at the same time. We prove over and over again that you can grow jobs while protecting the environment as well as show how energy efficiency and renewable energy can provide […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy Our thoughts are with those whose lives have been impacted by this unparalleled season of terrible natural disasters—hurricanes, flooding, earthquakes and wildfires—unfolding across the planet. Many of these life-shattering disasters, in the US and around the world, are occurring as Ocean Conservancy prepares for the annual International Coastal Cleanup. This event, which […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund [embedded content] The following is a transcript of the video. Anthony Swift, director, NRDC Canada Project: So right now, about two million barrels a day of tar sands oil is getting into the U.S., and most of it is coming in via pipelines. The Canadian oil industry has […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund President Trump’s nominee to head EPA’s air program is an industry lawyer who was largely responsible for the Bush EPA’s record of violating the Clean Air Act more often, and allowing more illegal emissions of harmful air pollution, than any EPA administration before or since. Bill Wehrum is […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Welcome to our weekly Trump v. Earth column, in which onEarth reviews the environment-related shenanigans of President Trump and his allies. Pruitt image courtesy Gage Skidmore The Dog Ate My Pollution Remediation Plan Lawyers for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency told a federal judge late last week that they needed […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The catastrophe of Hurricane Harvey is now shedding light on how climate change – manifesting in the form of stronger and more intense weather events – can bring enormous destruction to communities. Because the region hit by Harvey also serves as a home base to much of the […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund As L.A. residents lose an average of 104 hours to traffic every year, the city is hoping to become the first U.S. region to adopt a supply-and-demand payment system for using congested roads. Beatrix Boros/Stocksy It’s simple economics. If you’ve stood in an endlessly long line for a […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund How many monster storms does it take for us to realize “freak occurrences” such as Hurricane Harvey are part of the new normal due to warming water and land—with the devastating consequences exacerbated by aging and inadequate infrastructure and unfettered development? Our vulnerable coastlines are dotted with cities […]