Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The Environmental Protection Agency implements the Clean Water Act, the Nation’s primary tool to prevent pollution of our waterways and to clean up ones that are too polluted. Consequently, those of us who swim, fish, drink water, or use products manufactured using water – in other words, every […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy A new climate change assessment in the Arctic was released last week, and it had good news and bad news. The report, compiled by the Arctic Council’s Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP), had contributions from almost 100 scientists and looked at the status of the Arctic from 2011 to early 2017. […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund New government initiatives seek to promote a transition to a more efficient, less polluting air conditioning market. Co-authored with Karan Chouksey Only about 6 percent of Indian households today use air conditioners, but as income levels rise, air conditioner sales are increasing by 10 to 15 percent every […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy It seems a lifetime ago that we started our joint efforts in February of 2016 to support investments in a healthy ocean for this fiscal year. It took 15 months but our work has paid off. This week, Congress released a late, but welcome, federal budget for 2017. It is a budget […]
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund Perchlorate contamination, which harms fetal and infant brain development, has been rising rapidly in everyday foods such as bologna, salami and some baby foods. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/309261612/0/edf/blogs/feed~Protecting-industry-or-people-FDA-refuses-to-ban-toxic-chemical-in-packaging-for-baby-cereal
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Read the full article at: https://www.nrdc.org/stories/northeast-fastest-warming-region-lower-48
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Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Read the full article at: https://www.nrdc.org/experts/maria-martinez/latin-america-green-news-428-542017
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Read the full article at: https://www.nrdc.org/experts/yerina-mugica/ct-green-bank-strengthens-commitment-low-income-residents
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Read the full article at: https://www.nrdc.org/experts/jennifer-sass/epa-regulatory-safeguards-prevent-pesticide-poisonings
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund The five-month congressional budget deal includes continued funding for key programs, though all remain on the Trump chopping block for 2018. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/307866458/0/edf/blogs/feed~Critical-safeguards-for-people-and-wildlife-win-budget-reprieve-%E2%80%93-for-now
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund You may not know the top 10 chemicals reviewed under America’s reformed toxic safety law. But they loom in all-too-familiar products and places. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/307771969/0/edf/blogs/feed~How-hard-is-it-to-find-products-with-these-toxic-chemicals-Shockingly-easy
Published by the World Wildlife Fund On April 29th, Filippa the Amur tiger was successfully released back into the wild. Less than a year and a half before, in December of 2015, the exhausted, starving, five-month-old tiger cub was found when she approached Filippovka village near Russia’s Land of the Leopard National Park looking for food. […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund On April 29th, Filippa the Amur tiger was successfully released back into the wild. Less than a year and a half before, in December of 2015, the exhausted, starving, five-month-old tiger cub was found when she approached Filippovka village near Russia’s Land of the Leopard National Park looking for food. […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Read the full article at: https://www.nrdc.org/stories/pesticide-your-crisper-drawer
Published by Ocean Conservancy A fisherman conservationist’s perspective on why the federal red snapper season is just three days long. As a Floridian recreational fisherman, I share the disappointment of others in my community over such a spectacularly short federal season—just three days in 2017—for the iconic red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico. As a […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund New York State is poised to make a decision on the Atlantic Bridge Project, a natural gas pipeline that would expand the existing Algonquin Gas Transmission Pipeline system, a vast 1,100 miles-long pipeline system that traverses New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. While natural gas pipelines are […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The Peoples Climate Movement showed that we will not accept Trump’s attacks on our environment, our health, and our future. Bobby Bruderle On Saturday, I marked the hundredth day of Donald Trump’s presidency by marching against the reckless and radical assault he’s launched against our environment, our health, and […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Thirteen-year-old Yale study does not support Canadian forest industry and government claims about sustainable, on the ground outcomes in Canada’s boreal forest This is the third blog post in a series examining issues to Canada’s boreal forest. Do stringent logging policies translate into positive ecosystem outcomes on the […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Safe drinking water is something we Americans tend to take for granted, until a crisis like lead contamination in Flint, Michigan, makes us wonder what chemicals could be lurking in our own taps. Bigandt_Photography/iStock “Flint was a wake-up call for Americans, but it’s not the only place in […]