Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund NRDC has released Seeking Higher Ground, a groundbreaking report that takes a hard look at the plight of people whose homes are repeatedly flooded and the difficulties they face in acquiring assistance to move somewhere safer. Under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), a federal disaster aid program […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund [embedded content] The following is a transcript of the video. Olga McKissic, Louisville, Kentucky: My house flooded in 1997, in 2006, in 2013, and in 2015. It put our life on pause. Standing from the front porch, the water came up to here. So, all of this was […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund Task Force released their report to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, providing 42 specific and detailed recommendations to streamline and improve the Superfund program. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-announces-superfund-task-force-recommendations
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON —Today, Administrator Scott Pruitt met with community leaders at the Local Foods, Local Places (LFLP) summit about how investment in the local food economy can help boost economic opportunit Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/photos-epas-pruitt-visits-local-foods-local-places-summit
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Folly Beach Island in Charleston, South Carolina Richard Ellis/Alamy When it looked like President Obama was going to bring oil drilling and seismic testing into Atlantic waters back in 2015, more than 100 coastal communities from Virginia to Georgia flew into action. “Our coasts are not for sale,” […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Energy-efficient air conditioning presents a significant saving opportunity for India in the face of rapid economic growth and rising energy demands. As temperatures across the world and incomes in India rise, growing demand for cooling appliances such as air conditioners (ACs), threatens India’s already strained power grid and […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) PHOTOS Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/photos-epa-administrator-pruitt-continues-state-action-tour-south-carolina
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund This post co-authored by Alex Hillbrand The Montreal Protocol’s 30th anniversary is shaping up to be a good year for ozone and climate protection. The parties gathered last week in Bangkok for their midyear meeting to make headway on the ongoing phase-out of ozone-killing HCFCs and to start […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund India Green News: Indian Builders Pledge ‘Green’ Homes in Race to Meet Climate Goals; India’s First Solar-Powered DEMU Train Launched; India’s Water-Energy Nexus India Green News is a selection of news highlights about environmental and energy issues in India. July 13 – July 20, 2017 CLIMATE CHANGE Scroll.in […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Nichols, SC, USA— Homeowner surveys flood damage from Hurricane Matthew. Floodwaters remain in his home three days later. FEMA Photo by Dominick Del Vecchio – Oct 19, 2016 The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) was created in 1968 to provide affordable flood insurance to people who wanted to […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Greenpeace Polska/Flickr “No Trump, Yes Paris” on the side of the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, where President Trump visited ahead of the G20 summit in Hamburg Donald Trump promised to put “America first,” even if it meant alienating old friends and stretching the patience of […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Hundreds of safeguards that protect Americans are now in jeopardy and a court allows the EPA to continue putting kids at risk from a toxic pesticide. iStock Having failed to take away health insurance for 32 million Americans with his Obamacare repeal, President Trump pivoted this week to […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund There’s been no small amount of pushback to President Trump’s recently announced plan to expose all our coasts to risky offshore drilling. But today another shoe dropped. North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper drew a figurative line in the sand when he publicly denounced the plan and conveyed that […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund There they go again. Automakers are once more on the attack, attempting to weaken the clean car and fuel economy standards that are protecting our health, planet and pocketbooks, that they agreed to just five years ago. If successful, their efforts will take our nation backward, adding at […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund Despite protections put in place last year, America’s fragile and treasured Arctic could soon open up to a new wave of risky oil and gas drilling. Every five years, the US Department of Interior creates a plan that says where oil and gas companies can purchase leases for offshore drilling. […]
Published by the Environmental News Service LONDON, UK, July 19, 2017 (ENS) – Eleven of the world’s largest banks, representing over US$7 trillion, are making a public commitment to promote climate risk transparency in financial markets. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/07/19/11-big-banks-offer-climate-risk-transparency/
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) PHOTOS Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/photos-pruitt-stops-arkansas-state-action-tour
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The Trump Administration is reportedly looking for ways to artificially prop up an economically struggling coal plant in Arizona, but support for the plant might come at the expense of support for affected communities. The Navajo Generating Station (NGS) is one of the largest coal plants in the […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Roy C. Averill-Murray,USFWS/Flickr Desert tortoises have crawled the Mojave Desert since before there was an America, or a Mojave Desert for that matter. For millions of years, these plodding reptiles have ambled across the sands, gnawing on flowers, grasses, and cacti, digging extensive burrow networks, and every once […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund California just set a new bar for what U.S. climate leadership looks like. With passage of a legislative package to extend the state’s market-based cap-and-trade program, state legislators have helped ensure that California—the world’s sixth-largest economy—will cut carbon pollution by 40 percent by 2030, all while cutting dangerous […]