Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund President Trump’s budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2018 makes it clear his administration intends to continue its war on clean energy. The “starvation budget” proposed today would slash funding for renewable energy and efficiency programs by a devastating 70 percent, including popular energy efficiency programs that helping put […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund NRDC, along with over 40 environmental and community groups, is pushing the Trump Administration to protect the 25 million Americans living near train tracks by regulating crude-by-rail trains. Currently, there is no limit to the explosiveness or flammability of crude oil shipped by rail—a dangerous situation given that, […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-budget-returns-focus-core-statutory-mission
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice, on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), today filed a civil complaint in federal court in Detroit, Michigan, against FCA US LLC, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V., V.M. Motori S.p.A., and V.M. North America, Inc. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/united-states-files-complaint-against-fiat-chrysler-automobiles-alleged-clean-air-act
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a 90-day administrative stay for the August 2016 New Source Performance Standards and Emissions Guidelines for municipal solid waste landfills. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-stays-landfill-methane-rules
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund A Hands Across the Sand event in Long Beach, NY, on May 20, 2017 Source: Dani Tinker/NRDC Over the weekend, a tidal wave of opposition to expanded offshore drilling washed over the nation, initiating a Week of Action protesting any attempts to sell-off our collective ocean resources to […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The international negotiations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change continued this week — even as the world’s largest cumulative emitter threatened to withdraw from the talks. Trump continues to treat participation in the Paris Agreement as a bargaining chip for the upcoming G7 meeting in Italy. […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently awarded $2,652,592 to the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) to help protect human health and the environment. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-awards-multi-million-dollar-grant-north-carolina-protect-water-quality
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt met with the Congressional Coal Caucus on Monday and carried with him the message from President Donald Trump that the war on coal is over. Additionally, Administrator Pruitt highlighted many of the changes EPA has made from the last a Read […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – As part of his continued effort to prioritize Superfund cleanups, U.S. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-announces-superfund-task-force
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund During his trip to Bears Ears, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke (pictured here, in a blue shirt, with Utah governor Gary Herbert) spent almost all his time with politicians and energy executives who want to open up the monument for fossil fuel extraction. U.S. Department of the Interior Interior […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund More pro-polluters appointed, a barrage of dangerous bills advanced, and Bears Ears under threat—again. But there’s one bright spot: bold climate action in Virginia. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke wants to open up the Bears Ears National Monument (right) to fossil fuel extraction; on the left, an oil pumpjack […]
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 […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Be a good American. Protect our national treasures. Sharon Buccino President Trump has issued an executive order that threatens 27 of our national monuments―and the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah is first on the chopping block. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has opened a comment period to review whether to […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON — EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and Texas Congressman Pete Olson (TX-22) met on Friday to discuss clean air policy and other issues vitally important to Texas, its environment, and its economy. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-administrator-scott-pruitt-and-us-representative-pete-olson-discuss-issues-facing
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, May 18, 2017 (ENS) – A new public opinion poll finds that the majority of Americans support government regulations as the best way to encourage use of renewable energy, while a minority believes the private marketplace can do the job. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/05/18/pew-poll-federal-regs-needed-to-support-renewables/
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Vaquita NOAA/Paula Olson With fewer than 30 remaining and an annual decline rate of about 50 percent, the vaquita porpoise is the world’s most endangered marine mammal. It may be the most endangered animal on the planet. Now, there’s frantic energy around the vaquita, like the last moments […]
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 […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The news that America’s largest municipal utility, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), is joining the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) promises to bring even more economic and environmental success to emerging regional electricity markets. LADWP, which serves about 4 million […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON –The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that the Albemarle-Pamlico National Estuary Partnership (APNEP) will receive approximately $343,883 in the form of a federal grant appropriated by Congress to identify, conserve, and protect the significant res Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-awards-grant-albemarle-pamlico-national-estuary-partnership-protecting-natural