Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Los Angeles, the nation’s second-largest city, took a bold step toward reducing climate pollution this week when its City Council adopted an amendment aimed at making steep reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from commercial and residential buildings, including by transitioning from conventional natural gas to electricity generated […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) this week released its annual long-term forecast for America’s energy system. This year’s big message: despite the administration’s efforts to bolster dirty energy, the nation is still becoming cleaner and more efficient every day. And while the United States needs to transition […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Here’s why the EPA chief is wrong. Mitchell Resnick / White House Scott Pruitt hates hot weather. When asked what he hates most about living in Oklahoma, he answered: “The 105-degree temperatures are pretty tough for me to handle.” Nonetheless, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator seems to […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Congress is poised to extend and expand energy tax credits that benefit both industry and consumers, but the Republican-sponsored bill unfortunately wastes taxpayer money to back faltering technologies and outdated federal benchmarks—at a time when lawmakers should be prioritizing innovative clean energy technologies that create American jobs, lower […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy Ocean Conservancy began 2017 in uncharted waters with the new Trump administration. Since then, we’ve learned that very little from previous administrations applies to how this one approaches the issues we care about—our ocean health, coastal communities and a thriving blue economy. We knew we would be on the defense. We knew […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) By Suzanne Featherston February 6, 2018 An agency that encourages stewardship over prohibition is the Environmental Protection Agency that Administrator Scott Pruitt represented to the Nevada mining industry on Feb. 5. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-administrator-visits-nevada-silver-gold-mine
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/exclusive-epa-chief-scott-pruitt-goes-one-one-las-vegas-news-3
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund California remains committed to moving forward with its innovative clean cars program, even with rumblings about federal rollbacks growing louder. Last Friday, during a Bloomberg New Energy Finance conference, California’s top air quality regulator Mary Nichols refused to reverse course on the state’s clean cars program, despite federal […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Hot on the heels of a State of the Union address that claimed to “end the war on American energy” but ignored the booming clean energy industry, a leaked budget proposal from the Trump administration suggests that federal funding for renewable energy and efficiency programs should be slashed […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/watch-administrator-pruitt-discusses-nevada-visit-krnv-reno-nv
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) PHOTOS Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/administrator-pruitt-signs-deferral-agreement-state-nevada-anaconda-copper-mine
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) PHOTOS Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/administrator-pruitt-tours-coeurs-rochester-mine
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Washington—El administrador de la Agencia de Protección Ambiental de Estados Unidos (EPA, por sus siglas en inglés), Scott Pruitt, está tomando medidas para afrontar la contaminación de plomo a través de Estados Unidos al invitar formalmente a sus colegas y compañeros del gabinete a unirse con la […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – U.S. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-administrator-pruitt-invites-nations-leaders-join-epa-efforts-reduce-childhood-lead
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Authored by New York Program Assistant Jhena Vigrass NRDC testified at two public hearings in favor of a full ban on fracking and fracking-related activities in the Delaware River Basin last week. The hearings took place in Waymart and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and were hosted by the Delaware River […]
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. In the Eye of the Beholder? President Trump praised “beautiful clean coal” in his State of the Union address Tuesday night. Far be it from me to question Trump’s […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund President Trump with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis walking into the Pentagon Carolyn Kaster/AP As we all know by now, the Trump administration is rife with climate deniers. Defense Secretary James Mattis, however, isn’t one of them. Like many within the defense community—including most of our military leaders—Mattis not […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke made sweeping changes this week to the way oil and gas are leased on public lands. The bottom line: Joe and Jane Citizen—0; Dirty Energy Industry—100. Even by the low standards of the Trump Administration, the new policies are a shocking negation of public process and environmental […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) PHOTOS Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-administrator-pruitt-talks-environmental-outcomes-state-florida
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) From a monumental State of the Union Address, to a historic decision on the West Lake Superfund site, to a speech at the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture, to a meeting with the Florida Farm Bureau, and an in-depth interview on Read the full article […]