Published by Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Captain Sandy Yawn of Bravo Media’s “Below Deck Mediterranean” to helm the ship’s inaugural mission MIAMI, FLA. – DECEMBER 7th, 2017 – Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, the direct-action marine organization, will unveil its newest vessel, the M/V Sharpie, at a press conference on Monday, December 11th at 11:00 am at the 5th Street Marina in […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund By Avinash Kar, NRDC and Eili Klein, Center on Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy The world’s leading authorities on public health—from the Centers for Disease Control to the World Health Organization—have been warning us loud and clear: we must stop taking life-saving antibiotics for granted or else they […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The president signed proclamations on Monday that would strip protections from Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. Bob Wick/BLM Today, NRDC and Southern Utah National Monument, together with Earthjustice on behalf of nine other groups, have filed a lawsuit to block the Trump administration from abolishing […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy We all know the feeling. You walk into your local department store or discount retailer, ready to purchase a few needed household items. And then it hits you—the bright sparkling lights, the elaborate wreaths, the hundreds of festive figurines all meticulously aligned in holiday splendor along the store’s entryway. With a season […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy In a deeply worrisome and unprecedented move, the Secretary of Interior just recommended that the Trump administration dismantle some of our nation’s national marine monuments. Three of our nation’s most culturally important marine areas could now have their boundaries modified and be opened up to commercial extraction. Interior Secretary Zinke is targeting […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund A group of 26 oil and gas producers organized by industry trade association the American Petroleum Institute (API)—and self-styled as “The Environmental Partnership”—announced they will be pursuing voluntary efforts to reduce climate change-fueling methane emissions from their operations. While this sounds good, and we commend the industry for […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The U.S. Atlantic’s blue economy is busier than ever before: a chain of offshore wind leases is under development, growth of marine shellfish and finfish farming is anticipated, and the Panama Canal expansion, opened in 2016, has increased East Coast trade and traffic from massive ships. Our ocean is also home to a wide variety […]
Published by Sea Shepherd Conservation Society The trio is joining forces for Operation Taino Spirit Promise, to deliver supplies to local partners and retrieve plastic waste Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has partnered with Taino Warriors and actor/activist Michelle Rodriguez on a campaign to help the hurricane ravaged and economically impacted island of Puerto Rico rebuild in […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Konza Prairie, Kansas Vincent Parsons/Flickr Loretta Johnson tortures plants. She sets them in awkward positions, deprives them of water or gives them too much, then watches how they react. Her victims are tall grasses—big bluestems, specifically, an icon of the midwestern prairie. Johnson isn’t tormenting the plants for […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund We’ll stand up to Trump’s raid on our public lands. Bob Wick/BLM In the single-largest attack on our public lands in U.S. history, President Trump went to Utah on Monday to strip nearly two million acres of necessary protections, exposing spectacular landscapes and sacred lands to industrial ruin for […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy Flares of bright green with yellow streaks and intense spots of red and orange lights up a map of blue stretching out from the eastern shore. This data visualization captures one of the most ancient ways our species has traversed the planet—on ships that carry us across oceans to distant shores. Each […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Each year at Thanksgiving, my family goes around the table and before we feast, we say what we are most thankful for. This year, I’m thankful for whales, not Congress. Congress isn’t making my list because any day now, the House of Representatives is expected to vote on […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund EPA is proposing to roll back emission safeguards against sales of dirty trucks, leaving the public to cough and wheeze on more air pollution. NRDC is opposing the rollback at a public hearing on December 4th in Washington, D.C. The EPA proposal would lift restrictions on the number of […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund One year after the Paris Agreement entered into force, are countries really shifting their financial flows to be consistent with a low-greenhouse-gas-emissions future? Our latest report, Power Shift, compares G20 governments’ financing for coal projects and renewable energy projects abroad. Our findings indicate that countries are still financing more […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The tax scheme protects the oil and gas industry while cutting clean energy initiatives and destroying millions of acres of nature. Hillebrand/USFWS Today the Senate voted to approve a $1.5 trillion tax bill that would, for the first time ever, allow drilling in Alaska’s pristine Arctic National Wildlife […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund A Clean Power Plan hearing in coal country, using the tax bill to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and more questionable actions from Pruitt. Rob Crandall/Shutterstock Scott Pruitt must have thought it was awfully clever to hold the only public hearing on his climate destruction plan […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is attempting to monkey with the highly successful efficiency standards program – and we’re paying close attention. The DOE recently released two separate Requests for Information, one to evaluate advantages and disadvantages of additional flexibility for manufacturers and another to consider changes […]
By Alexis Schlatre, Guest Contributor August and September were marked by three of the largest hurricanes the United States has seen since Hurricane Wilma in 2005. The damage from Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria are widespread throughout Texas, Florida, and the Caribbean, leaving thousands of people out of their homes and businesses disrupted for weeks. […]
Published by the Department of the Interior U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced today that Interior’s disbursements from mineral and energy production on Federal and American Indian lands and offshore areas totaled $7.11 billion in Fiscal Year 2017, an increase of nearly $1 billion over the previous year. Read the full article at: https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-department-fy2017-energy-disbursements-grow-1-billion-711-billion-under
Published by the Department of the Interior The Agreement quantifies the water rights claims for the Pechanga Band in Southern California’s Temecula Valley, which had been pending in an adjudication dating back to the 1950s; resolves potential liability for both the United States and other parties; and establishes a cooperative and efficient water management regime involving […]