Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Authored by New York Program Assistant Jhena Vigrass NRDC testified at two public hearings in favor of a full ban on fracking and fracking-related activities in the Delaware River Basin last week. The hearings took place in Waymart and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and were hosted by the Delaware River […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Tomorrow the California Water Commission will publicly release its initial reviews of the 11 remaining applications submitted by water storage projects seeking funding from the 2014 water bond (Proposition 1). As the San Jose Mercury News reported earlier this month, Commission staff have explained that these initial reviews […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Courtesy Atlantis Scientists can identify individual humpback whales by the shape and coloring of their flukes, giant river otters by the white markings under their chins, and spotted eagle rays by their freckles. Would you like to know the best way to ID a particular manatee? Look at […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund How about this for a disastrous trifecta? President Trump was wrong on the facts, misguided in his emphasis and avoided the real issue when he discussed infrastructure last night. In his State of the Union address, Trump took aim at the environmental reviews required before a federal road […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Upper Peninsula Michigan, Lake Superior iStock As Mark Mattson waited to speak to Canada’s minister for the environment, Catherine McKenna, about the Great Lakes last December, he could feel the weight of the 184-page report he carried in his shoulder bag. At the Toronto meeting, McKenna asked Mattson, […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund [embedded content] This is a transcript of the video. Aaron Lehman, farmer, Polk County, Iowa: My name is Aaron Lehman. I’m the fifth generation of Lehmans on this farm. We farm about 550 acres in rural Polk County, Iowa. About 12 years ago, we were farming corn and […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Co-author: Claire L. Barnett, Founder and Executive Director, Healthy Schools Network* Part I: The problem and New York’s response Every school day, parents send some 55 million children to 130,000 public and private schools nationwide. Families expect that the school will be a healthy place for children, and […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The new chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) recently announced plans to review its decades-old approach for evaluating proposals for interstate gas pipelines. The announcement came just weeks after the release of a groundbreaking report commissioned by NRDC, discussed here, which found that FERC’s pipeline policy […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Bruno Mallart Marcus Santos was a healthy man when he arrived at the State Correctional Institution (SCI) Fayette, a maximum-security prison in La Belle, Pennsylvania, in February 2012. But by the third year of his five- to ten-year sentence, Santos feared for his life. He’d developed a host […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The water world has been abuzz this past week with confirmation that the proponents of the massive, twin tunnel water diversion project in the Delta (aka “WaterFix”) are redefining the project. This pivot was precipitated by the failure of proponents to attract funding anywhere near the $17 billion […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Protesters against the Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast Pipelines at the Virginia Capitol Square in Richmond Daniel Sangjib Min/Richmond Times-Dispatch/AP Images Like the Keystone XL and Dakota Access before it, a disputed pipeline recently got the green light from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which controls the […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Oil drilling in the Baldwin Hills neighborhood of South Los Angeles. Photo: NRDC Companies are pumping oil out of the ground every day in Los Angeles, exposing nearby residents to a toxic cocktail of health-threatening emissions. Safeguards for communities at the city, state, and federal levels have lagged […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund In a welcome move, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) yesterday rejected Constitution Pipeline’s petition to overturn a previous New York State rejection of the fracked gas pipeline. This is one more nail in the coffin of this flawed project. Pipeline construction near homes. David Jones Constitution claimed […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Sachin Daluja/Flickr Last July, after Karen Feridun and Tracy Carluccio delivered a petition with more than 63,000 signatures in support of a fracking ban in the Delaware River watershed to the office of Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf, they popped down to the cafeteria in the building. To their […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund A new governor takes the helm in New Jersey next week, and the state is looking ahead to a fresh start on environmental protection. High on the list is clean water. It’s a basic necessity of life. And it’s an issue consistently identified as a top environmental concern […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund In the movie A Christmas Story, all Ralphie wants for Christmas is a Red Ryder BB Gun. Christmas morning comes and all the presents are opened but Ralphie doesn’t get his wish. But wait, his dad says, what’s that hidden behind the desk? It’s the BB Gun! The […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Wurzer/Getty Images The marine equivalent of a mass jailbreak took place on August 20. Hundreds of thousands of Washington State–farmed Atlantic salmon were accidentally released into the Salish Sea after their underwater net pens collapsed at a salmon farm near Cypress Island. The potential victims: local wild fish, […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The New York State Health Department has issued a new waiver that will allow New York City to continue to avoid having to filter its Catskill and Delaware drinking water supplies—staving off, at least for now, the multi-billion dollar costs of filtering the primary water supply for more […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Co-written by New York Program Assistant, Jhena Vigrass Climate March 2017 As 2017 comes to a close, we are taking a look at all that this year has brought us. While there have been setbacks on the national scale, this was a landmark year for our advocacy efforts […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund It didn’t take Donald Trump long after moving into the White House to initiate an all-out assault on our environment and health. Since his inauguration in January, the president has made abundantly clear that he values polluter profits over the well-being of the American people. NRDC has been […]