Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The California legislature today passed a hard-fought air quality and climate package that will extend California’s market-based cap-and-trade program to 2030 and improve air quality in neighborhoods plagued by traffic and industrial pollution. Passage of this legislation, which Governor Jerry Brown is expected to sign, was the right […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Despite national commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, some G20 countries still fund highly polluting coal projects. The catch is most of these emissions don’t count towards their carbon footprint – these countries are funding coal projects abroad. If G20 nations are serious about their Paris Agreement goals, […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund India Green News: India Will Implement Paris Climate Pact in Letter and Spirit: PM Narendra Modi; Tangedco Evacuates 5,079 MW of Wind Power, Sets National Record; CPCB Plans to Roll Out Action Plans for Air Pollution in Non-Attainment Cities India Green News is a selection of news highlights […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Leaders in California’s capitol—Speaker Anthony Rendon, Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León, and Governor Jerry Brown—this week announced a package of two bills to extend the state’s breakthrough cap-and-trade climate program and to get real about cutting local air pollution in communities suffering from traffic and industrial […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund “Save the World,” by Anthony Memba from Kangemi, Nairobi, Kenya Maskbook Facebook’s number of monthly users recently hit 2 billion—a pretty impressive slice of the global population. But there’s a different type of social network out there fighting for all 7.5 billion of us. It’s called Maskbook, and […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The Air Quality map NRDC is releasing today highlights why it’s a bad idea for the United States to pull back from climate action. Our analysis finds that nearly 127 million Americans live in zones with pollen-producing ragweed and ozone pollution that can threaten our next breath—and it […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Alkimon/iStock In the spring, tree pollen falls so thick that people write messages in the green fuzz on their car windows. In the fall, ragweed sprouts not just along roads and in fields, but in gardens, street plantings, and sidewalk cracks. Such is the new reality of Jackson, […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Co-authored by Benjamin Sieck New Orleans is leaping forward in sustainability and resiliency planning through a new Climate Action Strategy, introduced by Mayor Mitch Landrieu on Friday, July 7th. As one of the most at-risk cities in the United States, New Orleans will contribute to climate mitigation while […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse houses the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit NCinDC/Flickr Earlier this week, just before we gathered with friends and family to celebrate our country’s 241-year-old experiment in democracy, something beautiful happened—a shining example of the separation of powers […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Trump has announced plans to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement. He based the decision on advice from a small cadre of lobbyists from the fossil fuel industry masquerading as policy experts. In another blog, I’ve detailed the most egregiously inaccurate information in Trump’s speech announcing a withdrawal […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund India Green News: Star Power: Industries in Maharashtra to Now Get Ratings Based on Emissions; India Extends Transmission Charge Exemption for Solar Projects; Impact of BS VI Rollout on Indians Victim to Hazardous Air Quality India Green News is a selection of news highlights about environmental and energy […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund This blog was written in partnership with Adam Macon, Our Forests Aren’t Fuel Campaign Director at the Dogwood Alliance. Standing forests are a critical tool in the fight against climate change. Cutting trees down to use as fuel in energy production–known as biomass energy or bioenergy–is one of the […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund India Green News: India to become 2-4 degrees Celsius warmer, but deaths due to heat are preventable; Power Minister Piyush Goyal Launches New Energy Conservation Building Code; Thirty new smart cities announced; India to have City Livability Index India Green News is a selection of news highlights about […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund As PM Modi sets out to visit the US for his first meeting with President Trump, the approach of the two leaders on climate change cannot be more different. President Trump has ceded leadership on the issue by pulling the US out of the Paris Agreement earlier this […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund AJEL/Pixabay Does your employer offer free parking to you and your coworkers? If so, it’s probably not billed as a fringe benefit, at least not in the same category as medical or dental coverage, vacation pay, or a gym membership allowance. But that’s exactly what it is. Free […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund How cities can spur voluntary “green” stormwater management on private land A growing slate of leading cities are seeing that the challenges of modern-day stormwater management require a departure from traditional approaches. Historically, cities have looked to centralized “gray” infrastructure: imagine thousands of storm drains and miles of […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Bears Ears National Monument is in danger, more international embarrassment, rollbacks to an air pollution rule, and NRDC sues—again. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt ran into trouble on June 15 defending the indefensible: President Trump’s fiscal year 2018 budget that proposes to eviscerate the EPA. Testifying […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund India Green News: To slow climate change, India joins the renewable energy revolution; India’s renewable energy capacity reaches 57472 GW; Delhi to get 20 new pollution monitoring stations by October this year India Green News is a selection of news highlights about environmental and energy issues in India. June […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has trouble telling the truth. The world saw that from his brazen attempts on TV recently to spin President Trump’s withdrawal of the U.S. from the Paris climate accord. Many fact-checkers have called him out on his lies. See here, or here, […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund While America was riveted by former FBI director Comey’s testimony, the Trump administration put marine mammals and sage grouse at risk, continued to lie about climate change, and changed the DOI’s mission statement to favor polluters. Demonstrators protest President Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord, June 3, […]