Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund HFC phase-down talks in Vienna are moving forward rapidly this week as countries engage on the specifics of freeze and reduction targets and funding needs. Negotiators have delved into key issues all week, and ministers are arriving for high-level talks over the next two days. Expectations are high […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund AP Photo/Frank Augstein When the United Kingdom surprised the world last month by voting to leave the European Union, a brief period of panic ensued as global markets struggled to absorb the news: The world’s sixth-largest economy had just voluntarily withdrawn from a powerful consortium whose 28 partners […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund This blog post was also co-authored by legal intern Pablo Rojas. With all of the exciting energy policy developments coming out of New York these days (and there are many!), it can be challenging to keep tabs on the moving parts. From Governor Cuomo’s recent support for building […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Enbridge to pay $177 million for Kalamazoo oil spill – The Canadian pipeline company reached a settlement with the U.S. government this week for the 2010 spill, which sent more than a million […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy Can you imagine a family in the same business for eight generations? Talk about dedication and deep expertise! That is what struck me when I met the Haward family, who has been farming oysters since the 1700s. Last month in West Mersea, England, I had the privilege of visiting Richard Haward’s Oysters. […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Evacuating by truck through flood waters, Charity Hospital, New Orleans, after the Hurricane Katrina levee failure disaster. Ben Record/WikiCommons Imagine what it would be like to struggle to pay your bills, feed your children, get to work, or find work on a daily basis. Then picture having to do those […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Powder River Basin, WY EcoFlight We’re coming up on an important milestone in the history of coal mining in the United States. In January, the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) announced a moratorium on new federal coal leases. In addition, it announced it was conducting a comprehensive review […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Writers, architects, planners and poets may celebrate the nation’s large, wondrous bridges and walkable city centers. But mayors know that much of the success of what we call infrastructure is literally keeping the trains running on time, managing drinking water, combating water pollution, and repairing potholes and sidewalks—the […]
Published by the Department of the Interior Interior announces this quarter’s transfer of nearly $500,000 to the Cobell Education Scholarship Fund, which provides financial assistance through scholarships to American Indian and Alaska Native students wishing to pursue post-secondary and graduate education and training. Read the full article at: https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/cobell-education-scholarship-fund-reaches-nearly-40-million-benefit-native-american
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice today announced a settlement with Enbridge Energy Limited Partnership and several related Enbridge companies to resolve claims stemming from its 2010 oil spills in Marshall, Mich. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/us-enbridge-reach-177-million-settlement-after-2010-oil-spills-michigan-and-illinois
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – In a report released today on corrosion inside diesel fuel underground storage tanks (USTs), the U.S. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-research-shows-moderate-or-severe-corrosion-majority-diesel-fuel-underground-0
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The Obama Administration today announced a set of initiatives designed to help Americans make their homes more energy efficient and take advantage of solar power. The Fact Sheet describing the specific regulatory changes, of course, contains policy jargon and plenty of acronyms, but in practice it’s pretty simple—these several […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy I don’t always drink beer. But when I do, I drink it while eating oysters. Or at least that’s what I did in London a few weeks ago, with oyster farmers shucking local oysters right on the pub tables. One of the perks of my job is to talk with oyster farmers, […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON- Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy will deliver the keynote address at a funding and financing event focused on providing drinking water and wastewater infrastructure to communities in need. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/today-epa-administrator-deliver-keynote-address-drinking-water-and-wastewater-0
Published by Ocean Conservancy Because we rise and fall together. This has been a heartbreaking month – a heartbreaking year – for our country and around the world. Like you, I’m troubled and heartbroken by the racial inequality and violence that mars our great country. I’ve been thinking about the events in Dallas, Baton Rouge and […]
Published by the Environmental News Service ISTANBUL, Turkey, July 18, 2016 (ENS) – The World Heritage Committee has inscribed nine new natural, or mixed natural and cultural, sites on the List of World Heritage: one transnational site – in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan – and others in Canada, Chad, China, India, Iraq, Iran, Mexico and […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Sperm whale mother and calf Gabriel Barathieu On Friday, a ruling in NRDC’s latest sonar case came down from the Ninth Circuit, the federal court of appeals that presides over most of the western United States. It was a major victory, and not only for marine mammals, but […]
Published by the Department of the Interior Last year, President Obama signed the “Billy Frank Jr. Tell Your Story Act” into law. The act renamed the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge in honor of Billy Frank Jr., who worked to protect Native American traditional ways of life and endangered salmon. Billy Frank Jr. founded the Northwest Indian […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Canada is putting a price on carbon emissions – By the end of the year our northern neighbors plan to implement a national price on the greenhouse gas and require companies to disclose […]
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/oil-refiners-reduce-air-pollution-six-refineries-under-settlement-epa-and-department-0