Happy Navy Day! Celebrating an Ocean Planning Champ

Published by Ocean Conservancy On October 27, our nation marks Navy Day in honor of the service, courage and commitment of the United States Navy. In honor of Navy Day, I wanted to highlight the little-known but vitally important role that the U.S. Navy plays in ensuring one of America’s greatest natural resources—our ocean—keeps working to […]

Week 40: Ryan Zinke Calls for More Drilling (and Lying) in the Gulf

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. Gerald Herbert/AP No Oil Left Behind The Interior Department announced this week that in March “all available un-leased areas on the Gulf’s Outer Continental Shelf” will be open for bidding […]

Week 40: Why Scott Pruitt Death Threats Are Bad for the Environment

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. Photo of Scott Pruitt via Gage Skidmore The Pruitt Protection Agency You don’t like Scott Pruitt. I don’t like him, either. He’s arguably the worst administrator in the history […]

The Disgrace of Scott Pruitt

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Lorie Shaull/Flickr Prior to this week, chances are you had never heard of the State of Narragansett Bay and Watershed Workshop. As important as the workshop is within the world of New England watershed management, the event—tied to an annual report detailing the health of Narragansett Bay, a […]

Standards Save Trillions. Why Mess With a Good Thing, DOE?

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The Department of Energy (DOE) issued a review of the regulations it oversees this week, and the results are what you’d expect from an administration that repeatedly prioritizes polluters over people. If DOE moves forward with the proposals it’s considering—some of which are likely illegal—the result will be […]

After Sandy, We’re Ignoring the Lessons We Already Learned

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Five years after Sandy, we are ignoring the lessons we paid so much to learn. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Ryan J. Courtade/Released Five years after Hurricane Sandy, our nation’s leadership is willfully ignoring all the lessons we paid dearly to learn. Instead the nation […]

25 Years of Water Efficiency Across the US

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Twenty-five years ago this week, President George H.W. Bush ushered the federal government into our bathrooms. This turned out to be a good thing. Congress enacted water efficiency standards in 1992 with bipartisan support. Photo: cj13822 The Energy Policy Act of 1992 (EPAct 92), approved with bipartisan support […]

DOT’s Highway Emissions Rule Horror Story

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Pixabay As Stephen King’s “It” frightens moviegoers nationwide this Halloween season, I’m reminded how the best-selling author once described the levels of a scary story—“terror on top, horror below it, and lowest of all, the gag reflex of revulsion.” Terror is exemplified in the beating of Edgar Allen […]

There are More Fish in the Sea Because the Magnuson-Stevens Act is Working

Published by Ocean Conservancy Let’s not undermine the MSA in the name of short-term gain The Senate Commerce Committee just held another hearing on the potential reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Act (MSA), the law that governs how many fish US fishermen can catch.  But the panel didn’t adequately represent what science tells us about how to […]

New Research to Help Waste Less Food in America’s Cities

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Co-Authored with Devon Klatell, The Rockefeller Foundation A year or so ago, NRDC, with support from The Rockefeller Foundation, set out to undertake first-of-its-kind research to better understand wasted food in cities. Why? Because 40 percent of food in this country is never eaten—wasting massive amounts of water, energy, […]

Case Studies: Cutting Waste & Boosting Food Donation

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Up to forty percent of food in America is wasted and it costs our economy roughly $218 billion each year. When food goes to waste, so does everything that goes into growing, storing and transporting that food: water, energy, labor, agricultural chemicals, money and more. In addition, most […]

Report: What, Where and How Much Food Is Wasted in Cities

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Food is the largest component of what we send to landfills in the U.S., representing nearly 22% of disposed municipal solid waste. When we waste food, we not only add organic materials to landfills (where they generate methane, a powerful global warming pollutant), but we also waste all […]

Flooding Swamps 1st Native American Climate Refugees

Published by the Environmental News Service SEATTLE, Washington, October 24, 2017 (ENS) – On the front lines of coastal erosion and the effects of global warming, Rising sea levels and human activities are quickly creating a worst case scenario for Native Americans of the Mississippi Delta who stand to lose their homes and their cultural […]

Secretary Zinke Announces Largest Oil &Gas Lease Sale in U.S. History

Published by the Department of the Interior The Department is proposing the largest oil and gas lease sale ever held in the United States –76,967,935 acres in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico, offshore Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.  Read the full article at: https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/secretary-zinke-announces-largest-oil-gas-lease-sale-us-history

Medical Journals: Monsanto glyphosate in pee, bad for health

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund New research in the prestigious medical journal JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) reports on the startling evidence that glyphosate – the main ingredient in Monsanto’s weed-killer, Roundup – is not only getting into our bodies, but has been doing so at increasing levels for decades. The […]

Governor Cuomo Signs Bill to Protect Hudson from Oil Barges

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Guest written by New York Program Assistant, Jhena Vigrass. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has just signed into law legislation that gives the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) the power to prevent the siting of anchorages in the Hudson River. This bipartisan legislation is a major […]

Grassland songbird populations pressured by the plow

Published by the World Wildlife Fund Imagine a canvas called the Great Plains, comprised of gently rolling green hills with splashes of colorful wildflowers. Picture languid waterways, rich with trout and other aquatic life, traversing unbroken landscapes that in turn also serve as highways for large herds of antelope and elk. Now, turn your attention to […]

A new set of leaders will fill the US government void at next round of international climate talks

Published by the World Wildlife Fund Assuring the world that the United States is still an ally in the fight against climate change, American leaders outside of the federal government—from governors and mayors to business executives and university presidents—announced they will attend the next round of international climate talks in November. Earlier this year, the US […]

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