Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund “It always seem impossible until it’s done.” Nelson Mandela This blog series is an effort to present some preliminary thoughts on how the U.S. and other nations could limit the increase in global average temperature to 1.5 C. My goal is to spark a conversation on this critical […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced an innovative pilot program with Energy Star partners to encourage the sale of more efficient products for the home. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/energy-star-collaboration-aims-increase-sales-energy-efficient-products
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund This blog series is an effort to present some preliminary thoughts on how the U.S. and other nations could limit the increase in global average temperature to 1.5 C. My goal is to spark a conversation on this critical issue. Part 2 of a 3 part blog: Stopping […]
Published by the Department of the Interior This initiative was launched by the White House Council on Native American Affairs, which President Obama established to better coordinate and integrate federal resources available to tribal nations. Read the full article at: https://www.doi.gov/blog/respecting-tribal-treaty-rights-helps-preserve-indian-country-progress
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Yesterday the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) denied yet another request to toughen up on sources of pollution that are fouling urban waters across the country. NRDC and our partner organizations are disappointed in this response, and more generally, in the agency’s continuing lack of leadership on this issue. […]
Published by the Department of the Interior Through the work of the White House Council on Native American Affairs, chaired by Secretary Jewell, Cabinet agencies are working to improve overall federal interagency coordination and efficiency, promoting tribal-federal partnerships in education, health, energy and economic development and environmental conservation and adaptation. Read the full article at: https://www.doi.gov/mediaadvisories/secretary-jewell-address-50th-annual-alaska-federation-natives-convention-fairbanks
Published by the Department of the Interior To address concerns regarding mineral leasing and development activity adjacent to Chaco Culture National Historic Park, Deputy Secretary of the Interior Michael L. Connor today announced the U.S. Department of the Interior will expand the resource management planning effort underway in the Farmington, New Mexico area. Read the full […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Read this post in French. Global Forest Watch Canada (GFWC) has released a report that highlights the growing threat of logging and road building to one of Quebec’s largest and last remaining intact forest landscapes—the Broadback River watershed. The Broadback River watershed, comprising more than five million acres […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund World agrees to phase-down HFCs, Chile hands down new regulations to salmon fisheries, Nestlé to go 100 percent renewable in Panama To get the weekly Latin America Green News blog delivered directly to your email, subscribe here. October 13 – October 20, 2016 Climate Change Negotiators at the Kigali […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund Kien Giang province is nestled in the southwest of Vietnam, featuring a prominent coastline along the Gulf of Thailand. Here in these tepid waters lives the blue swimming crab, a crustacean with an olive-green body and front claws the color of the sky on a clear day. Many locals rely […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) EPA otorga $10.8 millones para el Programa Nacional de Capacitación en Educación Ambiental Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-otorga-108-millones-para-el-programa-nacional-de-capacitacion-en-educacion
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – More than 4,400 environmental educators will gain training and leadership opportunities in 2017 through a new cooperative agreement between the U.S. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-awards-108m-national-environmental-education-training-program
CPI Steering Committee Chair Tom Feige of Dow “Our driving force is CPI,” remarked CPI Steering Committee Chair Tom Feige at the Opening Session of the 2016 Polyurethanes Technical Conference. “We have an association of people and resources that support a material that is vital to our society.” The strength and momentum driving the industry […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Most Americans say they are interested in the issue, but it came up only once in the first two debates and is not among topics listed for the third. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/science/hillary-cinton-donald-trump-global-warming.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund A diverse coalition of groups is supporting a proposal to significantly enhance California’s Energy Savings Assistance program, a move that could serve as a national model for easing the energy burden of low-income households, cutting energy waste and reducing harmful pollution. Consumer, health, environmental, housing and faith groups […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund An unlikely combination of peanut butter and drones has given biologists renewed hope for the future of North America’s rarest mammal, the endangered black-footed ferret. Biologists are helping these fascinating animals and their main prey—prairie dogs—fight a deadly plague by dropping vaccine-laced bait into their habitat. Both prairie dogs and […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – The U.S. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-calls-nominations-2017-presidential-green-chemistry-challenge-awards
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Today, developed countries released a “Roadmap” for how they will mobilize climate finance between now and 2020. This critical funding will help developing countries build low carbon and climate resilient economies and is an integral part of the Paris Agreement since countries reinforced their commitment to mobilize $100 […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The past two weeks have been a remarkable period for international efforts to combat climate change, beginning on October 5 when the number of countries that ratified the Paris Agreement reached the number needed to bring it into force. This period wrapped up this past Saturday morning (October […]
Published by the Department of the Interior The panel, titled “Assessing the Condition of America’s Dams and Rivers,” will also include Taxpayers for Common Sense Vice President Steve Ellis, Patagonia President and CEO Rose Marcario and Executive Director of the Nez Perce Tribe Rebecca Miles. Center for American Progress Senior Fellow David Hayes will deliver opening […]