Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund His attack on our clean energy future is just getting started. Reuters Anyone who listened to President Trump’s first State of the Union address Tuesday night might be forgiven for not recognizing the country he described. A nation so fearful of its neighbors it must build a “great wall” between them? A […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund One of New York’s largest electric utilities, National Grid, is proposing a lackluster energy efficiency program for 2018-2020 that is inconsistent with New York’s clean energy and climate change goals. Fortunately, Governor Cuomo has created a perfect opportunity to secure a better program not only for National Grid, […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt announced the proposed remedy for the West Lake Landfill Superfund Site in Bridgeton, Missouri. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-administrator-scott-pruitt-announces-west-lake-landfill-superfund-proposed-remedy
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) By Bryce Gray February 1, 2018 Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-wants-do-partial-excavation-contaminants-radioactive-west-lake-landfill-superfund
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Guest Blog by Amartya Awasthi and Bhaskar Deol With 2017 marking the fourth straight hottest year recorded in India, the need for cooling solutions is becoming even more urgent. India is moving forward with a comprehensive plan on meeting the country’s skyrocketing cooling demand, as highlighted recently by […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The Environmental Protection Agency last week made significant concessions in a lawsuit by NRDC and our partners challenging EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s illegal suspension of rules curbing harmful emissions from landfills. EPA has conceded that its May 2017 stay of the landfill emissions standards had no practical effects and […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund How about this for a disastrous trifecta? President Trump was wrong on the facts, misguided in his emphasis and avoided the real issue when he discussed infrastructure last night. In his State of the Union address, Trump took aim at the environmental reviews required before a federal road […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON (January 31, 2018) — Today, U.S. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-administrator-scott-pruitt-signs-endangered-species-act-memorandum-state
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of the Army (Army) have finalized a rule adding an applicability date to the 2015 Clean Water Rule (the 2015 Rule). Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-and-army-finalize-waters-united-states-applicability-date
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund A tug of war is taking place this week in Washington DC that will pit environmental health scientists against polluters and their Washington insider allies. The battle ground is the National Academies of Sciences (NAS) – the Nation’s premiere scientific institute providing non-partisan objective guidance for policy makers. […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Risky, dirty offshore drilling or clean offshore wind power? The choice couldn’t be starker. The Trump administration is pushing to open the Atlantic Ocean up to dangerous oil drilling—risking a repeat of the BP spill in the Gulf off the East Coast. But New York State is pushing […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON — Tonight, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt praised President Donald J. Trump’s State of the Union Address: Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-administrator-scott-pruitt-statement-president-donald-j-trumps-state-union-address
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Washington, 30 de enero del 2018 — Hoy, la Agencia de Protección Ambiental de Estados Unidos (EPA, por sus siglas en inglés) publicó su Análisis Nacional del Inventario de Emisiones Tóxicas (TRI, por sus siglas en inglés) correspondiente al 2016. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/la-epa-publica-el-informe-y-analisis-anuales-del-inventario-de-emisiones-toxicas
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its 2016 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) National Analysis. The publicly available database shows that industrial facilities continue to reduce the releases of TRI chemicals through pollution reduction activities. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-publishes-annual-toxics-release-inventory-report-and-analysis
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON (30 de enero de 2018) Continuando con sus labores de respuesta tras el Huracán María, la Agencia de Protección Ambiental de los EE. UU. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/actualizacion-de-la-epa-sobre-el-huracan-maria-correspondiente-al-30-de-enero-de-2018
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON (January 30, 2018) — Continuing its Hurricane Maria response efforts, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency is collecting on a daily basis thousands of containers of hazardous household materials, orphan containers, and e-waste items in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-hurricane-maria-update-january-30-2018-major-milestone-reached-epa-collection-and-0
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund New York is another step closer to realizing its important goal of achieving 2400 megawatts (MW) of offshore wind by 2030. New York State’s energy research agency, known as NYSERDA, along with other key New York State agencies and authorities, has just released its new Offshore Wind Master […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Upper Peninsula Michigan, Lake Superior iStock As Mark Mattson waited to speak to Canada’s minister for the environment, Catherine McKenna, about the Great Lakes last December, he could feel the weight of the 184-page report he carried in his shoulder bag. At the Toronto meeting, McKenna asked Mattson, […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The gap between how much wind and solar energy we need to install to curb climate change and how much we are projected to add in a business-as-usual case will get wider over the next few decades. To close this “Clean Power Gap,” we must increase our investments […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy For seven years, I’ve worked to understand the problem of plastics in the world’s ocean and endeavored to advance strategies to address it. But last week’s new study in the journal Science hit me like a ton of bricks. It’s now clear that to save the world’s coral reefs we first need […]