Imagine living in a world without chlorine disinfection of drinking water…You would have no idea when a dreaded disease might strike you down or strike down your children or other family members. This is the world that everyone in the U.S. lived in at the turn of the twentieth century. –Michael J. McGuire in the […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy What do eelgrass, the California state legislature, crabbers, and Ocean Conservancy have in common? They are all part of the solution in California’s remarkable actions this past week to address the threats that ocean acidification presents to California’s healthy fisheries, marine habitat and coastal jobs. Governor Jerry Brown just signed into law […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Congress’s utter disregard for the public health crisis in Flint is a national tragedy, as my colleague, Henry Henderson, pointed out yesterday. This mess has festered for too long. This dual problem—poisoned water and Congressional inaction—has festered for over two years. Henry’s blog highlighted the year-old anniversary of […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund One year ago, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, a pediatrician at Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Michigan released a study validating what many residents were shouting from the rooftops for months—the water in Flint was unsafe to drink. Until that point, no one was listening. Despite residents’ bringing bottles of brown, […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced funding to six universities to work with local communities to better understand the economic value of water quality. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-awards-48-million-six-universities-research-water-quality-benefits-0
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Today NRDC sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for approving a flawed clean-up plan for trash in the Anacostia River. The Anacostia—which flows from Maryland, through the District of Columbia, and eventually into the Potomac—is one of the few waterways in the country that’s legally designated as “impaired” […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund When you talk about taking a trip in the United States, or even the world, do you note what state you’re visiting or what city? Nine times out of 10, I’d venture it’s the latter. Pixabay Major metropolitan areas are their own attraction and they’ve become something akin […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Today, the State Water Resources Control Board is releasing its long awaited analysis of proposed changes to instream flows in the Stanislaus, Tuolumne, and Merced rivers. As the Board recognizes, these rivers are critically impaired by unsustainable water diversions that have harmed native salmon, fishing jobs, and the […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund Big data. It is a popular topic in the news. Our capabilities to analyse complex global patterns in everything from finance to commodities to human behaviour have increased dramatically in recent years. It’s amazing what scientists can now do with data. From tracking the presence of fish in a river […]
Published by the Department of the Interior For every Hoover Dam that continues to provide benefits like water supply or clean energy, there are thousands of obsolete, abandoned and dangerous dams choking our waterways. Read the full article at: https://www.doi.gov/blog/obsolete-dams-are-hazard-people-and-wildlife-were-working-together-remove-them
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Recently, NRDC, Center for Biological Diversity, Great Old Broads for the Wilderness, and the Montana chapter of the Sierra Club filed an administrative protest challenging BLM’s plan to auction off oil and gas resources on approximately 20,000 acres of public land in northern Montana throughout Glacier, Toole, Choteau, […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund This week, conservation takes center stage as 6,000 global experts dive deep into the issues that will define the physical future of our planet. And with the all the far-reaching impacts of these decisions affecting the long-term sustainability of our planet, it’s a gathering that cannot come soon enough. The […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Since its introduction to Guam in the late 1940s, the brown tree snake has done significant damage to the island’s economy and essentially destroyed its native ecology (especially bird populations). USDA Global trade is the number one avenue for stowaway pests. Along with goods, the United States alone […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Sometimes you have to face facts, even if the truth isn’t pretty. That’s essentially what New York State Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation, Basil Seggos, wrote today in a strongly worded letter to the U.S. EPA regarding the cleanup of the massive amounts of toxic chemicals […]
Published by the Environmental News Service VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, August 21, 2016 (ENS) – Senior BC Hydro executives have worried for years that earthquakes triggered by fracking operations in search of natural gas could damage its two big dams on the Peace River, putting thousands of people at risk if the dams fail. Read […]
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 On July 20, an oil pipeline in Northern Saskatchewan ruptured, eventually leaking as much as 66,000 gallons of heavy crude oil and other chemicals into the North Saskatchewan River. Despite noticing a “pressure anomaly” in the line, pipeline operators failed to shut it down, and the leak continued […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund One would think an agency caught in the grips of one of the worst droughts California has ever seen would handle and account for its water supply with extreme prudence. And yet, in attempting to avoid mandatory conservation measures, in a recent “stress test” Metropolitan Water District grossly […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The country’s role in combating global climate change is more important than ever. Guilin, China We got a timely alert on the growing dangers of climate change this week, when scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration teamed up with their counterparts from 61 other nations to report from […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy Can you imagine a family in the same business for eight generations? Talk about dedication and deep expertise! That is what struck me when I met the Haward family, who has been farming oysters since the 1700s. Last month in West Mersea, England, I had the privilege of visiting Richard Haward’s Oysters. […]