Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Late last week, Governor Cuomo made what could be a game changing announcement for our regional food system. Standing on the Hunt’s Point Peninsula in the South Bronx—the epicenter of food distribution for New York City and indeed much of the Northeast—Governor Cuomo announced that New York State […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Today, NRDC, Friends of the Earth, and the Pesticide Research Institute released a report showing that common bee-friendly flowering plants sold at stores like Home Depot, Lowe’s, Walmart, Ace Hardware, and True Value contain bee-killing pesticides. The study shows that 23 percent of bee-friendly garden plants sold at […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund New fuel efficiency standards for heavy trucks announced today by the Obama Administration will save money and dramatically cut carbon pollution. The standards will drive manufacturers to adopt cost-effective technologies so that, by 2027, new trucks will guzzle up to 25% less fuel when hauling goods. These latest […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund As it marks 100 years, we’re celebrating park service’s progress while preparing for a long road ahead. Yosemite National Park iStock In the summer of 1916, a raging fight for the soul of the nation had pitted rampant capitalism against responsible conservation across some of the last unspoiled […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Peter Wey/Stocksy A Proposal in Grand Canyon National Park “I once told my sweetheart that if he ever asked me to marry him, the proposal should make a really good story, like with polar bears and penguins. About a year later, we went on a rafting trip down […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Scientists are racing to preserve Madagascar’s seeds – Ninety percent of Madagascar’s 13,000 known plant species are found nowhere else on earth, but slash and burn agriculture threatens much of the island’s flora […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Mike Mahaffie/Flickr Southerners don’t like regulatory mandates. Take a look at this interactive map. The gaping gray hole noting the lack of renewable portfolio standards is testament to that. Freedom, on the other hand, speaks straight to the southern heart—and that includes the right to put solar panels on […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Legislation to require the world’s sixth-largest economy to reduce its climate change-causing pollution to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 – the most aggressive target in North America – has cleared its final hurdle before consideration by the full California Assembly, which faces an Aug. 31 deadline […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Earlier this summer, researchers at UC-Davis confirmed what a lot of us already know—that saving water saves energy. The analysis from the UC-Davis Center for Water-Energy Efficiency found that California’s mandatory 25 percent reduction in urban water use, which was adopted in May 2015 due to the ongoing […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. The country’s first offshore wind farm is set to open this fall – Deepwater Wind will build five turbines off the coast of Rhode Island. Experts say the project marks the dawn of […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Recovery of California Island foxes is fastest ever – Just 12 years ago, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service placed the rare canid on the Endangered Species List. Yesterday, three subspecies found on San […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund This post was written by Lucas Eastman. Zip codes in the USA that contain at least one Severe Repetitive Loss Property (a frequently flooded property). NRDC figure generated from FEMA data Can you imagine living in a property that has flooded 10 times? How about 20 times? It’s […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Photo by Amy Goerwitz Chicago Tribune investigative reporters have put together an excellent series detailing the social and environmental damage being wrought by Illinois’ profusion of industrial hog farms. The series explains in stomach-churning detail everything from animal abuse to worker abuse to chokingly high levels of air […]
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