Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund President Trump has launched disastrous attempts to roll back domestic climate action and attempts to roll back international climate action through budget cuts. Plus, Press Secretary Sean Spicer recently said that the U.S. is reconsidering U.S. participation in the Paris Agreement and that the White House will make an […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Sheryll Durrant Keka Marzagao/Sustainable Flatbush Most people don’t move to New York City and become farmers. Sheryll Durrant certainly wasn’t planning to when she left Jamaica for Manhattan in 1989. She got her undergraduate degree in business from the City University of New York’s Baruch College and spent […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Will EPA ever regulate a chemical under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)? Judging solely on the history of the law, it is hard to be optimistic. Since 1976 when the law was first enacted, EPA has adopted partial restrictions on less than a dozen of 62,000 chemicals. […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund [embedded content] This story originally appeared on Climate Central. Climate change is putting one of the wonders of the world in a vice. For an unprecedented second year in a row, Great Barrier Reef coral have been decimated by a wave of warm water. Last year’s mass bleaching was fueled […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy It’s been seven years since the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster began, and we’re looking back on how the disaster has shaped our lives here on the Gulf Coast. We decided to revisit our 2015 interview with Cole Kolasa, one of the youngest contributors to our Postcards from the Gulf series. At […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing people, wildlife, and the planet. From warming temperatures to more extreme weather, communities around the world are already feeling the impacts. But we can create a safer and resilient future if we work together to rethink the way we produce and […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing people, wildlife, and the planet. From warming temperatures to more extreme weather, communities around the world are already feeling the impacts. But we can create a safer and resilient future if we work together to rethink the way we produce and […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Instead, Congress Should Work With Stakeholders on Measures to Keep PACE Programs Growing With the Right Set of Consumer Protections Sen. Tom Cotton (R. Ark) has introduced a bill, the PACE Act of 2017, that would needlessly set back important emerging state and local energy efficiency and clean […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Versions of this blog first appeared as op-eds in the Helena Independent Record, Billings Gazette, Bozeman Daily Chronicle, and Missoulian. M-44 sodium cyanide device Guy Connolly, U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Wildlife Research Center M-44 cyanide ejectors mistakenly killed a wolf in Oregon, injured a young boy and […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund In the lead up to the Paris Agreement, the United States and China played a crucial role in showing how cooperation between the two largest economies and greenhouse gas emitters on addressing climate change could accelerate the transition to a clean energy future. Attacking Obama-era climate and clean […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund New York State just blocked the Northern Access Project, a pipeline that would have carried fracked gas from Pennsylvania to Canada via New York. This is a huge victory not just for New Yorkers but for the entire planet. On March 7, 2017, the New York State Department […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The pollution from this U.S. steel plant on an island in the Detroit River blows into Canada Neil Cornwall/Flickr As we’ve all seen, “America First” can be highly effective as a campaign slogan when your primary goal is to stoke resentment of globalism among the economically disaffected. But […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Pipeline under construction in Alberta, Canada rblood/Flickr If ever there was an environmental battle exemplifying a game of ping pong, it would be the stop-start story of the Keystone XL pipeline, also known as KXL. From the time it was proposed in 2008, through seven years of dogged […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Welcome to our weekly Trump v. Earth column, in which onEarth reviews the environment-related shenanigans of President Trump and his allies. P.L. Herrera/iStock Trust Falls with Trump We all knew President Trump’s proposal to cut the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s budget by 31 percent would undermine vital programs. Now we’re […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Groundwater used to flood rice fields in Yuba County, CA Dale Kolke, DWR Whether it’s a wet or dry year, California uses more water than is naturally available. And as climate change brings longer, more frequent droughts, rising sea levels, and floods (or even leads to near failures […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Boosting efficient use of energy. That’s been policy in my state since 2008, when EmPOWER Maryland was enacted. This year that policy was renewed by the General Assembly and Governor, moving us into a future with more energy savings thanks to technologies and techniques such as better building […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund India Green News: Paris climate deal architect looks to India; By 2025, renewables could power 25% of Indian Railways; Supreme Court bans registration, sale of BS-III cars from April 1 India Green News is a selection of news highlights about environmental and energy issues in India. March 27 – April 6, […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Daniel X. O’Neil/Flickr President Trump’s headlong rush to undo health and environmental protections is hitting some speed bumps. In a series of legal actions, NRDC and our allies have thrown up significant legal blocks to slow, and possibly derail, that runaway train. Defending the Clean Power Plan The […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy The octopus is one of the most well-recognized animals in the sea, but what about their lesser-known cousins? Squid and cuttlefish may not get as many Hollywood roles as their eight-armed relatives, but they’re equally as interesting. Take a minute to explore these tentacled invertebrates—and learn how to tell them apart. Let’s […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund With the President’s Climate Destruction Plan last week, the world officially entered the Trumpocene. Future geologists will define the Trumpocene as a brief period – lasting a maximum of four years – of official climate denial and presidential attempts to roll back climate action, prop up declining […]