Published by Ocean Conservancy Shark Week is almost upon us! Once a year, we take time to celebrate these mysterious, charismatic critters that are a critical part of our marine ecosystem. This year, we have everything you need to make this Shark Week the best one yet. Explore the links below, and be sure to check […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund David Varga Fishing nets will keep catching things even when there’s no one there to haul them in. These “ghost nets” are a ubiquitous form of pollution in today’s oceans, where they ensnare and kill marine life such as sea turtles, dolphins, and sharks. On the western shores […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Today, on behalf of ourselves, our members, and many other environmental groups, we’re submitting an 85-page comment letter to the Trump administration opposing seismic blasting in the Atlantic. As I wrote in early June, the Trump administration has proposed permitting five large-scale surveys that, if approved, would criss-cross […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Greenpeace Polska/Flickr “No Trump, Yes Paris” on the side of the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, where President Trump visited ahead of the G20 summit in Hamburg Donald Trump promised to put “America first,” even if it meant alienating old friends and stretching the patience of […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy By Rip Cunningham I tend to be a “less is better” kind of guy when it comes to government. The exception is the management of natural resources like America’s sustainable fisheries. Fishing has been my profession and passion for almost all my life. Having been a part of the recreational fishing industry for […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Hundreds of safeguards that protect Americans are now in jeopardy and a court allows the EPA to continue putting kids at risk from a toxic pesticide. iStock Having failed to take away health insurance for 32 million Americans with his Obamacare repeal, President Trump pivoted this week to […]
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund How will America’s natural gas industry operate 5-10-20 years down the line in an increasingly carbon-constrained world? The administration forgot to ask. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/404956754/0/edf/blogs/feed~Trumps-America-First-energy-plan-is-a-losing-proposition-for-industry-Heres-why
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Today, the Trump administration released a list of the public safeguards it intends to destroy. Click to watch a video about how everyday lives will be impacted by halting public protections. The Trump administration has released a list of hundreds of federal rules it plans to weaken or […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund There’s been no small amount of pushback to President Trump’s recently announced plan to expose all our coasts to risky offshore drilling. But today another shoe dropped. North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper drew a figurative line in the sand when he publicly denounced the plan and conveyed that […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund There they go again. Automakers are once more on the attack, attempting to weaken the clean car and fuel economy standards that are protecting our health, planet and pocketbooks, that they agreed to just five years ago. If successful, their efforts will take our nation backward, adding at […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund Despite protections put in place last year, America’s fragile and treasured Arctic could soon open up to a new wave of risky oil and gas drilling. Every five years, the US Department of Interior creates a plan that says where oil and gas companies can purchase leases for offshore drilling. […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund House Oversight Hearing Signals Return of “Empty Oceans Act” and New Efforts to Roll Back Federal Fisheries Law This afternoon, the House Natural Resources Committee’s Oceans Subcommittee held an oversight hearing on the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA), the law that governs our nation’s fisheries in […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The Trump Administration is reportedly looking for ways to artificially prop up an economically struggling coal plant in Arizona, but support for the plant might come at the expense of support for affected communities. The Navajo Generating Station (NGS) is one of the largest coal plants in the […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Roy C. Averill-Murray,USFWS/Flickr Desert tortoises have crawled the Mojave Desert since before there was an America, or a Mojave Desert for that matter. For millions of years, these plodding reptiles have ambled across the sands, gnawing on flowers, grasses, and cacti, digging extensive burrow networks, and every once […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy As Chief Scientist at Ocean Conservancy I have a responsibility to share new research results with you even if they are tough to comprehend. A new study published in the journal Science Advances paints a shocking picture of how much plastic humans have produced and thrown away. This paper should encourage all of […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Today the National Ocean Policy turns 7 and I’m increasingly amazed our country ever managed without it. The National Ocean Policy, also known by its wonkier name of Executive Order 13547, promotes coordination among the dozens of government agencies that oversee marine health and development. The idea of […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund There is overwhelming, bipartisan support for strong fuel economy standards in the Midwest auto manufacturing strongholds of Ohio, Indiana and Tennessee, according to recent surveys. Weakening the standards, on the other hand, would be very unpopular. Across the three states, Democratics and Republicans support raising the fuel economy […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund California just set a new bar for what U.S. climate leadership looks like. With passage of a legislative package to extend the state’s market-based cap-and-trade program, state legislators have helped ensure that California—the world’s sixth-largest economy—will cut carbon pollution by 40 percent by 2030, all while cutting dangerous […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Legislative hearings in the House and Senate consider bills that would, among other things, block Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in Minnesota. Dan Behm Today Congress is holding not just one, but two legislative hearings on six separate bills that would undermine the Endangered Species Act […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Based purely on a procedural issue, an appeals court ruled today that the EPA can keep putting off a decision on banning chlorpyrifos. Africa Studio/Shutterstock In late March, after U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt reversed an Obama-era recommendation to ban chlorpyrifos—a widely used, highly toxic pesticide […]