Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Huntstock/Alamy Stock Photo The average American spends about 90 percent of every day indoors. As a result, we inhale a lot of dust, and within that dust lurk various chemicals—some toxic—that are shed from furniture, electronics, and toys, as well as building materials like insulation, sealants, adhesives, and […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Temperatures may be cooling across the country, but new ceiling fan energy efficiency standards announced this week mean that consumers will stay comfortable in their homes in years to come while paying less on their energy bills. With an estimated 80 million U.S. households owning at least one […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund CSIRO We’ve been expecting them, the green crabs. Scientists have watched the European invaders creep up the Pacific Coast for decades, and now they’ve finally arrived in Puget Sound, off northwestern Washington. Volunteers found Puget’s first green crab in a baited trap on August 30, and five more […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Photo Credit: Marvin Nauman/FEMA The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently proposed updated standards to reduce the risk of flood damage to taxpayer-funded affordable housing. The proposed standards will better protect people and property by requiring HUD-financed infrastructure, located in a floodplain, to be constructed to a […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund This blog post was co-authored with my colleague Bruce Ho. The recent election has created uncertainty about future U.S. climate leadership at the federal level, but hasn’t reversed the physics of climate change or stopped its destructive effects from marching forward. That’s why the leadership we’re seeing from […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund President Obama threw a lifeline to the whales, walruses, and polar bears of the Arctic today when he withdrew the publicly-owned Arctic from the 5 year oil and gas leasing program. This builds on his past decision to remove the Atlantic from the plan. The Arctic is being […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Philippe Echaroux The Brazilian rainforest is an inextricable part of the Surui people’s past and present. The future of the tribe and the trees, however, depends on the rest of the world knowing it. Outsiders first made contact with the Surui tribe in 1969. Soon after, the Surui […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund This year is the 10th anniversary of the first time the two largest Southern California ports—the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach—came together to launch a pioneering and ambitious plan called the Clean Air Action Plan to reduce air pollution from port operations. For […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. The Interior Department just banned Arctic drilling through 2022 – A new five-year plan for energy development in federal waters puts an end to exploration in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas and bans […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund NASA Goddard Space Flight Center In a major, end-of-term accomplishment, President Obama has taken a decisive stand to keep drill rigs out of our publicly-owned Arctic Ocean, building on his past decision to drop Atlantic leasing as well. His administration’s just-issued five year offshore oil and gas leasing […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund To get the weekly Latin America Green News blog delivered directly to your email, subscribe here. November 7 – 18, 2016 Chilean President Michelle Bachelet at COP22 Gobierno de Chile COP22: Full steam ahead on climate action The 22nd Session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Earlier this year, Resolute Forest Products (Resolute) lodged a lawsuit based on the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO)—a U.S. law developed to combat the mafia—to sue Greenpeace and Stand.earth, public interest organizations that continue to be critical of Resolute’s practices in the boreal forest. Eighty public […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Delhi experienced record levels of bad air quality and poor visibility earlier this month. Bhaskar Deol The air pollution levels in India’s capital city New Delhi, reached record levels this month. Levels of particulate matter were reported to be fifteen times the “safe” limits on certain days with […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The House of Representatives will vote today, November 17, 2017, on a bill (H.R. 5982) designed to block a wide variety of protections for health and the environment. The bill is a clever, repackaging of longstanding efforts by the Republican leadership to do away with any sensible limits […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund At the COP22 Climate Conference, the United States presented details on the new Mid Century Strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This builds on the commitment from 2009 to reduce emissions by at least 80 percent. The US was not alone in presenting a long term vision, as […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The wheels of justice often turn very slowly. Three years after filing suit, NRDC, along with several other environmental groups, finally reached agreement on the framework for a settlement to clean up the coal pollution along waterways in the State of Washington. You may remember that we—along with […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund As leaders the world over extend their initial thoughts to President-elect Trump, one message has become abundantly clear: cooperate on climate change, or risk becoming an international pariah. Trump has been vocal in his campaign rhetoric to “renegotiate” or even “cancel” the Paris Agreement on climate change that […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund You’re gearing up for Thanksgiving dinner. Assignments are out to various attendees for sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie. Now, it’s time to figure out what size turkey to buy. Here’s a hint: Buy less than you think. If you’re hosting anything like the average Thanksgiving dinner for ten, […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Now through November 18th, the World Health Organization is hosting World Antibiotics Awareness Week, a yearly opportunity for all of us to turn our collective attention to the public health crisis of antibiotic resistance that is silently unfolding around us. This international call to action comes on the […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Geoffrey Fairchild Electronic balloting is now underway—through November 22—on scores of proposals to revise the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), the national model code governing the energy efficiency of new buildings, used by more than forty states. The IECC is updated every three years, and the current cycle […]