Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund NOAA Approves Largest Ocean Protection Area in U.S. Atlantic The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency today finalized important protections for more than 38,000 square miles of ancient, fragile deep-sea coral habitat off of our nation’s most populated coastline. The Frank R. Lautenberg Deep Sea Coral Protection Area will […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Part of NRDC’s Year-End Series Reviewing 2016 Energy Developments It’s been another banner year for clean energy across the west. The year saw big policy gains, falling renewable energy prices, and utility investments shifting from coal to clean energy. All of this means that the gains and momentum […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund In a striking and welcome display of corporate leadership, 15 leading food companies have publicly committed to reduce their food waste by 50% by the year 2030. By stepping forward as founding “U.S. Food Loss and Waste 2030 Champions”, these companies have made it clear: when it comes […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. You will be in the Middle Ages if you deny science. —Erik Solheim, executive director of the U.N. Environment Program, expresses concern over Drumpf’s climate change-denying cabinet picks 59 min ago Support Our Work […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The world needs a U.S.–China partnership to help stop global warming. But the presidential election has thrown the future of this alliance into question. During the presidential race, it was one of Donald Trump’s favorite refrains: China is beating us! Why are we letting them? I don’t agree […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Yesterday, NRDC sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice to express its strong opposition to the creation of the largest seed and chemical corporation in the world—a new industrial goliath anticipated from the German chemical and pharmaceutical conglomerate, Bayer AG’s, proposed takeover of the U.S. agrochemical […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund It doesn’t take a genius to see that drilling for oil in the Arctic Ocean is a really bad idea. Now, a new NRDC report, The Fate of the Arctic in Offshore Oil Blowouts, gives us a better idea of just how bad. Even ignoring the risks of […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Part of NRDC’s Year-End Series Reviewing 2016 Energy Developments The incredible strides renewable energy made in America this year, combined with the election of Donald Trump, remind me of that famous quote from A Tale of Two Cities: “It was the best of times, it was the worst […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Gregory Canyon, in California Damon Nagami/NRDC Listen closely, and you can almost hear a croak of relief from the arroyo southwestern toad. It’s one of the myriad rare wildlife species that make their home in Gregory Canyon, located in the rural northern reaches of California’s San Diego County. […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund With the flip of a switch today, the country’s first offshore wind power project began commercial operations. That’s something to celebrate—and it’s only the beginning for this abundant energy resource! An American First: The nation’s first offshore wind power project, located off the Rhode Island coast, can be […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund President-elect Trump should look to clean energy and energy efficiency if he wants to make good on his jobs promise to Americans. Energy efficiency already accounts for nearly 1.9 million U.S. jobs — ten times more than oil and gas drilling, and 30 times more than coal mining. […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Alarming air pollution levels in Indian cities are a major topic of discussion during this week’s Parliamentary session. The Indian Health Ministry found that the health consequences of particulate matter pollution alone are estimated to be exceed 3 percent of India’s gross domestic product, as announced in the […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund NRDC filed a “friend of the court” brief on December 9th to support New York State in defending against a legal challenge that could have an impact on the right of New York and other states to adopt policies to promote clean energy. Several fossil fuel power companies […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund NRDC’s Shelley Poticha (left) moderates the Compact, Connected and Resilient: Planning our Future City panel at the C40 Summit in Mexico City. Amanda Eaken For those of us worried that even rumors of the United States pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement would have a chilling effect […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Virginia Dept. of Transportation Winter is coming, and so is truckload after truckload of rock salt. By the time daffodils start popping up in the spring, Americans will have dumped more than 24 million tons of the stuff on our roads, parking lots, and driveways. Dissolved in melting […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Residents of the Jordan Downs public housing community in Watts, Los Angeles, recently achieved a major win with their landlord, the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA). Living adjacent to a brownfield, which (as we’ve previously blogged) was found to contain dangerous levels of heavy metals […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Move Will Help Curb Illegal, Unreported, Unregulated Fishing Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, recognized as a threat to our oceans and a scourge on legitimate fishermen worldwide, may have finally met its match in the United States. This week, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) finalized its […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) just-released standard for commercial and industrial compressors succeeds in lowering the energy use of these machines and, consequently, reduces the pollution output necessary to run them, but still falls short of what we and other researchers believe is possible. What’s a compressor? […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund In a breakthrough year of “firsts” for offshore wind in the United States, New York State is poised to add another to the list. The State’s clean energy agency, NYSERDA, plans to play a pioneering role in the early development of our region’s first federal offshore wind energy […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is steadily chugging toward the finish line with its proposed ban of the highly toxic solvent trichloroethylene, or TCE. This is great news! The proposal will force a mandatory ban on two dangerous and unnecessary uses of TCE—as a solvent in aerosol […]