The Real Lowdown: The Trump and Congressional Republican Assault on Our Environment, Vol. 15

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Bears Ears National Monument is in danger, more international embarrassment, rollbacks to an air pollution rule, and NRDC sues—again. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt ran into trouble on June 15 defending the indefensible: President Trump’s fiscal year 2018 budget that proposes to eviscerate the EPA. Testifying […]

Scott Pruitt Defends the Indefensible

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Today’s budget testimony from the EPA Administrator leaves us wondering who exactly is protecting our environment and health. Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images On the basis of congressional testimony Thursday from our nation’s top environmental steward, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, I can’t help […]

How Can Scott Pruitt Defend Drastic Cuts to EPA’s Budget?

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has trouble telling the truth. The world saw that from his brazen attempts on TV recently to spin President Trump’s withdrawal of the U.S. from the Paris climate accord. Many fact-checkers have called him out on his lies. See here, or here, […]

This Tiny Seabird’s Colossal Migration Is in Danger from All Sides

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund © Hans Hillewaert / CC BY-SA 4.0 Like a dollop of whole-grain mustard nestled among the seashore’s rocks and shells, a clutch of horseshoe crab eggs doesn’t look all that important. But for the threatened Rufa red knot, a migratory bird about the size of a robin, these […]

Craft Brewers to EPA: Keep Protecting Clean Water

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Last month, EPA asked the public to suggest regulations for possible modification or repeal. Instead, the agency got an earful from folks across the country—hundreds of thousands of them—demanding that our nation’s environmental safeguards be maintained or even strengthened. The voices of Americans standing up for the health […]

Forests, Just Like the Ones Mother Nature Used to Make

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Woody debris on the forest floor of a structural complexity enhancement plot inside the Jericho Research Forest. Clara Chaisson/NRDC If you build it, they will come. These words, forest ecologist Bill Keeton tells me, are more or less the guiding principle behind his efforts to build not a […]

All in for Climate Action

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund In an utterly reckless move—opposed by mayors, state leaders, county officials, governors and major companies and millions of Americans across our country—President Trump announced on June 1st that he will withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement. In the days since, the negative reaction has emphasized […]

Mystery: What Happened to Billions of Baby Oysters

Published by Ocean Conservancy by Alan Barton, Production Manager, Whiskey Creek Shellfish Hatchery, Netarts Bay, OR Life working in an oyster hatchery is, at its core, just like any other type of farming. We’re largely at the mercy of our environment, and each season is full of peaks and valleys. But in the fall of 2007, […]

Governor Sandoval: Sign AB 206, the RPS Increase

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Nevada’s renewable portfolio standard requires electricity providers like NV Energy to buy a minimum amount of electricity from renewable sources like solar, geothermal, and wind. Assembly Bill 206, sponsored by Assemblyman Chris Brooks, would increase the renewable standard so that it requires electricity providers to get 40 percent […]

Sanderson Farms: Spreading Deception & Antibiotic Resistance

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund While many major chicken companies, restaurant chains and food service providers are switching to chickens raised without antibiotics important for human medicine, Sanderson Farms seems to be moving in the opposite direction.   Last summer, Sanderson Farms launched an outrageous advertising campaign claiming that raising chickens without using these […]

Can a Chlamydia Vaccine Save Koalas?

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Pixabay The koala is a strong candidate for the most darling critter on earth. It has mad-scientist ear floofs, a dopey nose, and the rounded body dimensions of a teddy bear. But chlamydia is not cute. The contagious bacterial disease gums up the koala’s eyes with mucus, damages […]

The More You NOAA: Learning From (Dead) Whales

Published by Ocean Conservancy The Trump administration’s newly proposed budget would cut nearly $1 billion from NOAA. Follow along with our “The More You NOAA” blog series to see how these cuts would impact the families and communities who rely on a healthy ocean. Then take action to tell Congress to say “No” to cutting NOAA. […]

Week 18: The Pope Gives Trump Some Science Homework

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. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters First, Some Perspective The Trump administration’s fiscal year 2018 budget proposal recommends cutting funding for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency by approximately 30 percent and eliminating 3,800 […]

Counting Albatrosses from Space

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Ed Dunens/Flickr Nearly 400 miles above earth, there’s a hunk of metal taller than an elephant and heavier than a rhino. It’s a privately operated satellite named WorldView-3 that’s been orbiting the planet every 97 minutes since 2014, taking tens of thousands of high-resolution pictures as it rips […]

Changing people and landscapes: Farida’s story

Published by the World Wildlife Fund The village of Ak-Shyrak, Kyrgyzstan is special to Farida Balbakova. But just in her lifetime, the village has gone through enormous changes. In her youth, it was under Soviet Rule and all property was government-owned. In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed and Farida watched as her countrymen lost their livelihoods […]

In East Chicago, Knowing Your Soil Is Toxic Is Only Half the Battle

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The West Calumet housing complex was built over the site of the Anaconda White Lead Company (pictured), which smelted or processed lead for decades. Courtesy of the East Chicago Public Library Maritza Lopez pulled a postcard out of her mailbox five years ago. It was an invitation from […]

Week 17: A Would-Be-Banned Pesticide Is Blamed for Sickening Farmers—Thanks, Trump!

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. iStock At Least They Have Regulatory Certainty . . . Dozens of California field-workers harvesting cabbage on a Bakersfield farm this week smelled a noxious odor blowing in from […]

Latin America Green News: 5/12 – 5/18/2017

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Latin America Green News: Cocaine trafficking is killing Central America’s forests, Argentina to manufacture electric vehicles, Chile launches electric vehicle rental  To get the weekly Latin America Green News blog delivered directly to your email, subscribe here. May 12 – 18, 2017 Maize crops in Honduras ISABEL COELLO EU/ECHO […]

An Avoidable Death: Why We Need Strong Food-Safety Standards

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund [embedded content] The following a transcript of the video. Paul F. Schwarz, Independence, Missouri: If you’re selling food in the public, you ought to do it the right way, follow the regulations, don’t do any shortcuts, because that means life or death to people. My father’s name is […]

Farming for the Birds in California’s Central Valley

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund An alfalfa field in central California Ken Figlioli/Flickr California’s fertile Central Valley is known for its rows upon rows of carrots and tomatoes, fields of rice, and groves of almond and orange trees. It is less known for the untamed nature in its midst. Yet the pastoral lands […]

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