Published by Ocean Conservancy by Sarah Quintana, sarahquintana.com Sarah Quintana is a New Orleans musician who lent her voice and music to our newest video. Inspired by the forces that shape the Gulf Coast, Sarah explores the themes of rivers and water in her latest album, “Miss River.” Using an underwater microphone typically used to record […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today competitive cooperative agreements with 10 community-based organizations working to address environmental justice issues nationwide. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-awards-12-million-environmental-justice-collaborative-problem-solving-cooperative
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today invited rural communities to apply for planning assistance to develop strategies that help grow the economy and revitalize downtown neighborhoods. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-offers-assistance-help-rural-communities-revitalize-downtowns
In September, California Governor Jerry Brown signed ambitious climate change legislation that set an even higher bar than previous laws – California would now have to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 40% below 1990 levels by 2030. This integrated plan to address climate change includes doubling energy efficiency savings at existing buildings. Along with other […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund A colony of bamboo coral found during the Northeast U.S. Canyons Expedition 2013 NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program In the summer of 2013, a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) named Deep Discoverer made its maiden voyage, diving 6,000 meters into cold ocean waters off New England to explore a section […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund A Community Plates volunteer’s truck packed with rescued vegetables Meaghan Sprague/MACC Community Plates Forty percent of food in the United States is thrown away every year, while an estimated 50 million Americans suffer from food insecurity. These figures are almost too high, their relationship too confounding, to fully […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its sixth year of Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program data, detailing greenhouse gas pollution trends and emissions broken down by industrial sector, geographic region and individual facilities. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-releases-greenhouse-gas-emissions-data-large-facilities
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/us-files-complaint-announces-settlement-address-alleged-renewable-fuel-standard
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund A new federal public health agency report on the health risks associated with petroleum coke marks the three-year anniversary of the black clouds of dust that swept into Chicago’s Southeast Side neighborhoods from sites owned by Koch affiliate KCBX and a local company, causing a public uproar—and vindicates […]
Imagine living in a world without chlorine disinfection of drinking water…You would have no idea when a dreaded disease might strike you down or strike down your children or other family members. This is the world that everyone in the U.S. lived in at the turn of the twentieth century. –Michael J. McGuire in the […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund A week ago, agricultural economist Jayson Lusk opined in the New York Times (“Why industrial farms are good for the environment”) that we should put our faith in the biggest of industrial farms to deliver us food, more sustainably, into the future. Americans may have noticed untold billions […]
In March 2016, the National Academies of Sciences (NAS) conducted a workshop to better understand how changes in the availability and use of natural gas and natural gas liquids resulting from the rise in U.S. shale gas production can motivate research investment in new catalysis technologies and processes. Catalysts are added substances that enable more […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launches the seventh annual Energy Star Change the World Tour. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epas-energy-star-launches-campaign-benefit-communities-through-energy-efficiency
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-smartway-honors-freight-carriers-exceptional-supply-chain-efficiency
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Camera trap project at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico J.N. Stuart/Flickr Give me a few tufts of grizzly bear fur, and I can tell you how many bruins might be in a forest. Show me a few scoops of bat guano, and I can identify […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Adams County PA Master Gardener, BBG Graduate, and NRDC Member, Audrey Hillman In a case of taking “the grass is always greener” a bit too literally, American homeowners have long strived to make their lawns brighter, lusher, and more velvety than their neighbors’. But all that competition has […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire, or All Smoke and Mirrors? With much fanfare, the Republican staff of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee last week trumpeted its release of a “report” purporting to show that the Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers overzealously enforce […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund © David Siu Recently, the United States placed a near-complete ban on ivory sales. China has promised to follow suit. And France recently joined the fray. But what about the rest of the world? Today, the parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) addressed […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Co-authored with Bhaskar Deol This is huge news: India—not long ago a reluctant player on the global climate stage—is poised to become a key country putting the Paris Climate Agreement over the top, translating the promise of Paris into actions that we need to protect our future. Prime […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/southern-coal-corporation-make-system-wide-upgrades-reduce-water-pollution-mining