Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The state’s electric customers may be forced to pay a bigger utility bill to keep something they already have. Salem Nuclear Generating Station in New Jersey Peretz Partensky/Flickr The New Jersey legislature is expected to begin voting this week to give Chris Christie—the governor with the nation’s lowest […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The Boundary Waters is a special wild-place. An interconnected system of lakes, rivers, smaller tributaries, and wetlands, spanning over a million acres along the northern edge of Minnesota, it has been kept pristine thanks to its wilderness designation. Formally known as the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) By Karen Nelson January 2, 2018 When the giant gypsum stacks, with the hundreds of millions of gallons of acid water they create, became a Superfund site last month, the head of EPA said it would move quickly to make a difference. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/icymi-sun-herald-epa-has-plan-toxic-waste-site-near-sound-pascagoula
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – As a result of staff working hard to implement Administrator Scott Pruitt’s initiatives to make strides in cleaning up the nation’s most contaminated toxic land sites, the U.S. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-making-strides-cleaning-nations-most-contaminated-sites
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund How to secure funds to rescue and rehabilitate New York City’s beleaguered subway, bus and commuter rail system is among the most important policy issues facing the nation’s largest city in 2018. And rightly so. NRDC has long advocated for some form of congestion pricing as a New York public transit funding […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Co-written by New York Program Assistant, Jhena Vigrass Climate March 2017 As 2017 comes to a close, we are taking a look at all that this year has brought us. While there have been setbacks on the national scale, this was a landmark year for our advocacy efforts […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Welcome to a special end-of-year Trump v. Earth column, in which onEarth assesses the damage to the agencies that protect our environment after one year of President Trump. Stop Pruitt rally to oppose the EPA administrator nomination, February 2017 Lorie Shaull As a candidate for president, Donald Trump made exaggerated […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Part of NRDC’s Series Reviewing 2017 Energy & Climate Developments While Virginia’s state legislature hangs in the balance, one outcome is clear for 2017: this is the year Virginia jumped into the race for a cleaner energy future. The year started badly, as the Trump Administration pushed a […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund “Clean up the grid. Electrify everything.” That’s a brief summary of what Southern California Edison and a growing number of U.S. electric utilities are aiming for to decarbonize the power and transportation sectors in a mighty one-two punch. Some may worry that charging hundreds of thousands—and then millions—of […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The vast expanse of ocean that lies beyond any one country’s national waters comprises nearly two-thirds of the ocean and almost half the planet. These waters, the high seas, contain vast but not limitless supplies of fish, act as a heat and carbon sink to moderate our climate, […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy Less than a week after Governor Bill Walker appointed me to the Alaska Climate Action Leadership Team, I attended our first meeting in Anchorage. The participants reflected Governor Walker and Lt. Governor Mallot’s commitment to hearing from a rich diversity of other Alaskan voices from across our nation’s biggest state. Together, we […]
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund Businesses that plan for a more disruptive climate future will ultimately differentiate themselves from those that don’t. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/519831518/0/edf/blogs/feed~steps-that-will-make-your-business-more-climate-resistant
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund When the Oregon legislature convenes in February, it will be presented with a serious legislative proposal for capping carbon and pricing carbon pollution, and investing in cutting emissions and creating a clean energy economy. The program would allow the state to join the California, Quebec and Ontario carbon […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Polar bear in Nunavut, Canada Andre Anita/iStock Photo Twenty years ago, polar bears made people think of Coca-Cola. Ten years ago, the bruins became the face of climate change because their melting Arctic ice habitat perfectly captured the dangers of a warming world. More recently, as a direct […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Part of NRDC’s Year-End Series Reviewing 2017 Energy & Climate Developments In its short tenure, the Trump administration has been hard at work rolling back clean vehicle safeguards that protect the climate and our health. Led by EPA chief Scott Pruitt, the administration has re-opened federal automobile fuel […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON (December 22, 2017) – The U.S. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-doj-announce-settlement-agreement-carbon-black-producer-sid-richardson-carbon-and
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON (December 22, 2017) – The U.S. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-doj-announce-settlement-carbon-black-producer-columbian-chemicals-company
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Part of NRDC’s Year-End Series Reviewing 2017 Energy & Climate Developments This month marks the one-year anniversary of an event in Ohio that turned the page on years of political machinations and ideological theatrics around with the state’s growing clean energy industry—Governor Kasich vetoed a bill that would have […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Wind turbines near Goldendale, WA Murray Foubister/Flickr As far as years go, 2017 wasn’t among the best. Wait, I take that back: If you’re a billionaire who thinks you pay too much in taxes, harbors a deep-seated suspicion of immigrants, and doesn’t believe the United States should be […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Part of NRDC’s Year-End Series Reviewing 2017 Energy & Climate Developments The Trump administration and Congress leveled attacks this year on the environment, public health and social justice while Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria wreaked havoc on Florida, Texas, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, wildfires […]