Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Source: Global Risks Report 2018, World Economic Forum Extreme weather, failure to adapt to climate impacts, and failure to combat climate change all top the World Economic Forum’s list of Global Risks. Yet, President Trump, who addressed the WEF meeting in Davos, Switzerland today, fails to recognize these […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund A caribou in Nunavut, Canada Don Johnston/Alamy For scientists studying a threatened species, transcendent experiences in nature are among the rewards of the job. Tyler Rudolph, a Canadian wildlife ecologist who has studied caribou for more than a decade, will never forget one of his earliest encounters with […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund A striped hyena in Gujarat State, India Hemis/Alamy The striped hyena gets a bad rap. Not only does much of the world mistake it for its cousin, the spotted hyena—which The Lion King taught us to despise—but its shaggy coat, skittish nature, and nocturnal lifestyle have all contributed […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Co-author: Claire L. Barnett, Founder and Executive Director, Healthy Schools Network* Part I: The problem and New York’s response Every school day, parents send some 55 million children to 130,000 public and private schools nationwide. Families expect that the school will be a healthy place for children, and […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Governor John Hickenlooper has given his agencies a to-do list to help the state realize the benefits of electrifying the transportation sector. The Colorado EV Plan enumerates goals, actions, and strategies to deploy charging stations for electric vehicles (EVs) and to accelerate the EV market. It’s a timely […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Governor Cuomo’s 2019 budget proposal includes two promising initiatives to address critical food-related issues—one on food waste and one on school food. pisanieprac.info Food Waste As part of this year’s budget, the Governor has put forth a comprehensive proposal to address food waste by preventing, recovering, and recycling […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Residents of Hoosick Falls, NY displaying signs with their body’s PFOA levels Used with permission of pfoaprojectny (@pfoaprojectny1) It’s been a little less than a year since EPA’s toxics office became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dow-Dupont, Exxon, “Chemours” and other chemical manufacturers, and in that time it has […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Schools, hospitals and offices across the country will start saving money on their utility bills as a result of the new energy efficiency standards for fluorescent tube lights going into effect Friday. With more than 2 billion of these bulbs in use nationwide, the total savings will add […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Paulo Oliveira/Alamy Covering more than 70 percent of our planet, oceans are among the earth’s most valuable natural resources. They govern the weather, clean the air, help feed the world, and provide a living for millions. They also are home to most of the life on earth, from […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund For at least half of his presidency, Donald Trump has itched for a budget impasse to force the government to close. “Our country needs a good shutdown,” he said last spring, to fix what he labeled a “mess” in Congress. It looks like Trump’s getting his wish. What […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Rick Gershon Just about a year ago, the United States saw the largest single-day demonstration in its history. The groundbreaking Women’s March on Washington (for which NRDC was a presenting partner) united millions of advocates for human rights, environmental justice, and other causes. The remarkable event came together […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Scott Pruitt and Ryan Zinke during President Trump’s order directing the EPA review of the Clean Power Plan, March 2017 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Let’s say you’re a rogue U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator hell-bent on destroying the legacy of your own agency, dedicated to subverting its stated […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Carlo Giambarresi We don’t blame you if you’ve become obsessed with the government’s every move in the past year. Like many who are following the recent churn of assaults on our country’s environmental laws and most fundamental human rights, you probably know more about our legislative process than […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Authored by Jennifer Skene SteveAllenPhoto / iStock As the international marketplace calls on Canada to protect its boreal caribou, Ontario has chosen instead to enable rampant logging in the habitat of this treasured species. Today, without meaningful consultation with stakeholders, Ontario’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The new chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) recently announced plans to review its decades-old approach for evaluating proposals for interstate gas pipelines. The announcement came just weeks after the release of a groundbreaking report commissioned by NRDC, discussed here, which found that FERC’s pipeline policy […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Bruno Mallart Marcus Santos was a healthy man when he arrived at the State Correctional Institution (SCI) Fayette, a maximum-security prison in La Belle, Pennsylvania, in February 2012. But by the third year of his five- to ten-year sentence, Santos feared for his life. He’d developed a host […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The Southern Resident orca whale faces a new—and existential—threat. Today, only 76 of these orcas swim the waters off the Pacific Northwest shoreline. If Secretary Ryan Zinke and the Trump Administration succeed in opening the U.S. coastline to oil and gas drilling, we could lose these magnificent whales—forever. […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund [embedded content] This is a transcript of the video. Perrin Ireland, Science writer, NRDC: American women agitated for their right to vote for about 100 years before they got to participate in the 1920 national elections. Sometimes when I think of the suffragists, I picture polite and elegant […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The water world has been abuzz this past week with confirmation that the proponents of the massive, twin tunnel water diversion project in the Delta (aka “WaterFix”) are redefining the project. This pivot was precipitated by the failure of proponents to attract funding anywhere near the $17 billion […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Energy efficiency can be used to save customers money, reduce dangerous climate pollution, and stimulate the economy. Some recent studies that call into question the magnitude of those benefits may provide useful information to make improvements to particular programs, but we should be cautious about generalizing their findings […]