Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Co-Authored by Henry Ruehl, NRDC Energy Fellow In India and the world, governments, businesses, and environmental groups continue to make steady progress toward phasing down the use of harmful climate-damaging hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in air conditioners, as shown in the recent Bangkok talks. While the recent decision of the […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Americans concerned about their health shouldn’t breathe easy just because Congress left town after the dramatically failed effort to take away health care from tens of millions of people. While it may take a while for Republican leaders to tackle that fight again, September will see Congress wrangle […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Guest blog by Meredith Brown and Carley Reynolds, Latin America Project Interns Protests Photo Credit: Daniel Cima Indigenous peoples across Latin America have demonstrated their determination to protect their communities and their territories over the centuries and, in the process, have proven their role as stewards of the […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Guest blog by Meredith Brown and Carley Reynolds, NRDC Latin America Project Interns Indigenous Women at the UN UNDESA-DSPD/Jimmy Kruglinski On this International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, we celebrate the successes of indigenous peoples in Latin America in protecting their lands and communities. In particular, we […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund A divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit dealt a setback yesterday to the Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to cut emissions of the powerful heat-trapping gases called hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). The case is called Mexichem Fluor, Inc. v. EPA. The court’s ruling […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund San Gabriel Mountains California [embedded content] To civil rights attorney Robert Garcia, the San Gabriel Mountains, just north of Los Angeles, are a source of joyful childhood memories. If the Trump administration shrinks or eliminates our national monuments, it will “violate the will of the people” and rob […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Parks Canada Even as the logging industry lobbies the Canadian government to further delay measures that would protect the country’s diminishing woodland caribou herds, new satellite imagery of the boreal clearly illustrate the failure of some logging companies to meet their own voluntary commitments to protect caribou habitat. […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund For over 100 years, Michigan has remained the country’s undisputed automotive capitol. As the home of the Big Three (Ford, General Motors, and Fiat-Chrysler) and a nation-leading 70,000 jobs in clean transportation technology, it’s no wonder that the industry is a point of pride for many Michiganders. Now, […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund [embedded content] The following is a transcript of the video. Hillerie Patton, former employee of the Bureau of Land Management, North Las Vegas, Nevada: I never thought of myself as an outdoorsy person. I don’t even like to get dirty. But I love to go to Gold Butte. […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Otters in a Cook County Forest Preserve in Illinois Peter Pekarek/Forest Preserve District of Cook County Biologist Chris Anchor is fairly sure river otters are camping out by this Cook County pond. For the past few mornings, he’s heard the telltale tickings of telemetry signals coming from transmitters […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund New York City is approximately 72% impervious. With 218 square miles of paved area—surfaces such as parking lots, building rooftops, streets, and sidewalks—water has nowhere to go when it rains but run down the streets and into gutters, collecting an array of toxic pollutants before it ends up […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund 100 Hours Campaign If you’ve been in Los Angeles recently, you may have noticed—while stuck in traffic along Olympic, Sunset or Sawtelle—some colorful new billboards reminding you of all of the great things you could be doing if your eyes weren’t fixed on those signs while at a […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund BP TransAlaska Pipeline Spill Alaska Department of Environmental Quality New Market Condition Makes Keystone XL Riskier Than Previously Thought, Here’s Why. Reports from industry and government sources show that TransCanada’s troubles finding enough tar sands production to fill Keystone XL is not just a potential problem for the company’s […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The Trump administration sent the first written notice that it intends to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. This historic agreement included, for the first time, clear emissions reduction commitments from all the major countries in the world — including China and India — and a system to […]
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. iStock Wall of Shame The Department of Homeland Security announced on Tuesday that it would waive environmental safeguards in order to expedite the building of Trump’s enormously controversial wall […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The local Chicago PBS Station WTTW has been doing a fantastic job of covering the ongoing concerns about neurotoxic manganese being stored on Chicago’s Southeast Side. This is the same community where petcoke and coal facilities have been causing a public health hazard also by dusting up the […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Courts put the brakes on the administration’s rollbacks while the House heads home with nothing to brag about. Zavalnyuk Sergey/Alamy Stock Photo These days, the Trump administration may be feeling like the singers in the old pop song, “I fought the law, and the law won.” That’s because […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Tesla has received around half a million reservations since its Model 3 was unveiled in April. Steve Jurvetson/Flickr Great Britain has become the latest nation to announce plans for phasing out the sale of new diesel- and gasoline-powered cars in the not-too-distant future. Like France, Britain chose 2040 as its […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The whole process takes a labor-intensive seven to nine days, and the suitor works around the clock. Though the finished product is spectacular to human eyes, scientists aren’t sure if female pufferfish are quite so appreciative of their lovers’ labors. The fine sand particles in the middle of […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Jane Kleeb Mary Anne Andrei/Bold Nebraska In the red state of Nebraska, people know Jane Kleeb for her politics. She’s a progressive Democrat in a land of Trump voters, after all. But people also know the 44-year-old Kleeb, a Florida native who moved to Nebraska in 2007 after […]