Hurricane season is approaching, and Floridians will soon prepare themselves and their homes for potentially serious storms. Everyone knows that preparing for a hurricane includes making sure buildings are as secure as possible, including boarding up the windows and removing loose items that may damage nearby structures. However, building scientists understand the importance of building […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Thankfully, senators are stepping in where Donald Trump’s EPA has fallen down. iStock Later today, Senate leaders will stand up for children by introducing a bill to ban a pesticide that is currently found at unsafe levels in our food and water, one that is seriously jeopardizing the […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Folly Beach Island in Charleston, South Carolina Richard Ellis/Alamy When it looked like President Obama was going to bring oil drilling and seismic testing into Atlantic waters back in 2015, more than 100 coastal communities from Virginia to Georgia flew into action. “Our coasts are not for sale,” […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund [embedded content] The following is a transcript of the video: Angel Peña, archaeologist and Rio Bravo regional director, Conservation Lands Foundation, Las Cruces, New Mexico: One of my first memories of being in the Organ Mountains is with my daughter, who’s now nine years old. The Organ Mountains-Desert […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Nichols, SC, USA— Homeowner surveys flood damage from Hurricane Matthew. Floodwaters remain in his home three days later. FEMA Photo by Dominick Del Vecchio – Oct 19, 2016 The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) was created in 1968 to provide affordable flood insurance to people who wanted to […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund David Varga Fishing nets will keep catching things even when there’s no one there to haul them in. These “ghost nets” are a ubiquitous form of pollution in today’s oceans, where they ensnare and kill marine life such as sea turtles, dolphins, and sharks. On the western shores […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Greenpeace Polska/Flickr “No Trump, Yes Paris” on the side of the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, where President Trump visited ahead of the G20 summit in Hamburg Donald Trump promised to put “America first,” even if it meant alienating old friends and stretching the patience of […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy By Rip Cunningham I tend to be a “less is better” kind of guy when it comes to government. The exception is the management of natural resources like America’s sustainable fisheries. Fishing has been my profession and passion for almost all my life. Having been a part of the recreational fishing industry for […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Hundreds of safeguards that protect Americans are now in jeopardy and a court allows the EPA to continue putting kids at risk from a toxic pesticide. iStock Having failed to take away health insurance for 32 million Americans with his Obamacare repeal, President Trump pivoted this week to […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Today, the Trump administration released a list of the public safeguards it intends to destroy. Click to watch a video about how everyday lives will be impacted by halting public protections. The Trump administration has released a list of hundreds of federal rules it plans to weaken or […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund There they go again. Automakers are once more on the attack, attempting to weaken the clean car and fuel economy standards that are protecting our health, planet and pocketbooks, that they agreed to just five years ago. If successful, their efforts will take our nation backward, adding at […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund House Oversight Hearing Signals Return of “Empty Oceans Act” and New Efforts to Roll Back Federal Fisheries Law This afternoon, the House Natural Resources Committee’s Oceans Subcommittee held an oversight hearing on the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA), the law that governs our nation’s fisheries in […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy As Chief Scientist at Ocean Conservancy I have a responsibility to share new research results with you even if they are tough to comprehend. A new study published in the journal Science Advances paints a shocking picture of how much plastic humans have produced and thrown away. This paper should encourage all of […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund There is overwhelming, bipartisan support for strong fuel economy standards in the Midwest auto manufacturing strongholds of Ohio, Indiana and Tennessee, according to recent surveys. Weakening the standards, on the other hand, would be very unpopular. Across the three states, Democratics and Republicans support raising the fuel economy […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund California just set a new bar for what U.S. climate leadership looks like. With passage of a legislative package to extend the state’s market-based cap-and-trade program, state legislators have helped ensure that California—the world’s sixth-largest economy—will cut carbon pollution by 40 percent by 2030, all while cutting dangerous […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Legislative hearings in the House and Senate consider bills that would, among other things, block Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in Minnesota. Dan Behm Today Congress is holding not just one, but two legislative hearings on six separate bills that would undermine the Endangered Species Act […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The California legislature today passed a hard-fought air quality and climate package that will extend California’s market-based cap-and-trade program to 2030 and improve air quality in neighborhoods plagued by traffic and industrial pollution. Passage of this legislation, which Governor Jerry Brown is expected to sign, was the right […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Despite national commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, some G20 countries still fund highly polluting coal projects. The catch is most of these emissions don’t count towards their carbon footprint – these countries are funding coal projects abroad. If G20 nations are serious about their Paris Agreement goals, […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund This post was co-authored by Dan Sakaguchi. Whether it is President Trump’s proposed budget or Scott Pruitt’s rollback of EPA policies, the federal government appears to be walking backward when it comes to progress on sustainability. However, the real estate community is running forward; in cities across the […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund A farmer in Iowa Scott Sinklier/Alamy In Curtiss Hall, one of the oldest buildings at Iowa State University, students get their career advice and information on global agriculture from the Monsanto Student Services Wing, dedicated in 2012 with help from the colossal food tech company known for bioengineering […]