Published by the World Wildlife Fund This past winter, the extremely endangered ringed seals of Lake Saimaa received a lifeline via man-made snowbanks. The seals were struggling to find nests to give birth, so a group of volunteers, including WWF, went to work to create snow banks for them. Out of the 81 pups born months […]
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 Today’s budget testimony from the EPA Administrator leaves us wondering who exactly is protecting our environment and health. Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images On the basis of congressional testimony Thursday from our nation’s top environmental steward, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, I can’t help […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON (June 15, 2017) – EPA recently registered four products containing a new and innovative plant-incorporated protectant (PIP) called SMARTSTAX PRO that will help U.S. farmers control corn rootworm, a devastating corn pest that has developed resistance to several other pesticides. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-registers-innovative-tool-control-corn-rootworm
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/national-home-developer-nvr-inc-improve-environmental-compliance-measures-nationwide
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 © Hans Hillewaert / CC BY-SA 4.0 Like a dollop of whole-grain mustard nestled among the seashore’s rocks and shells, a clutch of horseshoe crab eggs doesn’t look all that important. But for the threatened Rufa red knot, a migratory bird about the size of a robin, these […]
Published by the Environmental News Service CANBERRA, Australia, June 13, 2017 (ENS) – Comprehensive records tracking changes in all 43 greenhouse gases that contribute to human-induced climate change back 2,000 years are now available to the public as a result of research conducted by an international team of scientists led by Australians. Read the full […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The Trump administration’s latest effort to undo the progress America is making in combating climate change is now targeted at our diets. On Monday, Trump’s Agriculture Department announced an end to a 14-year ban on American beef exports to China. Beef is the largest contributor to climate change […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Thanks to Mayor de Blasio’s recent commitment to adopt the principles of the Paris climate agreement and new legislation introduced last week in the New York City Council, the Big Apple will continue to play a vital role in helping to guard against climate change’s worst effects. New York City’s buildings […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s trip to Bologna this weekend for the G-7 Environment Ministers Meeting was bound to be awkward, coming less than two weeks after President Trump stuck his finger in the world’s eye on the Paris Climate Agreement. Pruitt added insult to insult-and-injury. The man who’s […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund As promised, NRDC sued the Trump administration today for delaying five energy efficiency standards that would generate more than $11 billion in energy bill savings and 25 million metric tons of reductions in carbon pollution. NRDC—as well as the Sierra Club and the Consumer Federation of America (both […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund I love the ocean. Its enormity inspires me, impresses me, moves me. Its future worries me. As the famous Oceanographer Sylvia Earle said, “With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.” Whether we […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking steps to ensure portions of the agency’s 2016 New Source Performance Standards for the oil and natural gas industry do not take effect while the agency works through the reconsideration process. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-proposes-longer-stay-portions-oil-and-gas-standards
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund New numbers from California show the state added jobs and expanded its economy while cutting greenhouse gas emissions 10 percent between 2004 and 2015. The data from the state’s Air Resources Board debunks yet again the tired argument that acting on climate change means sacrificing economic growth. In […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Woody debris on the forest floor of a structural complexity enhancement plot inside the Jericho Research Forest. Clara Chaisson/NRDC If you build it, they will come. These words, forest ecologist Bill Keeton tells me, are more or less the guiding principle behind his efforts to build not a […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON (June 12, 2017) — U.S. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-extends-rmp-effective-date-2019
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – Prior to Susan Bodine’s confirmation hearing in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee tomorrow, environmental leaders, including former DOJ and EPA officials who served in both Republican and Democrat administrations, are offering praise for Bodine’s nomi Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/what-they-are-saying
Published by the Environmental News Service COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, June 10, 2017 (ENS) – The Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea could experience another above-normal hurricane season this year, according to forecasters at NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center in College Park. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/06/10/up-to-four-major-atlantic-hurricanes-forecast-for-2017/
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund California homes and businesses must transition to clean, renewable sources of energy for heating our buildings and water in order to meet the state’s climate goals. A diverse group of 27 organizations – local governments, utilities, environmental organizations, and others – this week asked the California Public Utilities […]