Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The sixth annual Mission Possible Turkey Fry, hosted by country music star Tracy Lawrence Splash News/Alamy Stock Photo The generosity flows year-round at the Nashville Rescue Mission, the city’s largest homeless shelter, but it’s never more obvious than during the week of Thanksgiving. Starting at 4 A.M. on […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Written with Courtenay Lewis A dozen prominent caribou scientists have rebutted claims by the Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC)— an industry trade group that is working to downplay how rampant logging is destroying caribou habitat in Canada’s boreal forest. For more than five years, Canada’s federal government […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Nos agrada enormemente presentarles la nueva página de La Onda Verde. La Onda Verde (LOV) sigue siendo la misma fuente de información sobre temas de medio ambiente donde puedes encontrar información sobre cómo cuidar el planeta, los recursos naturales y tu salud. Allí también encontraras nuestros blogs y […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund While dangerous air pollution levels spike across Northern India, world leaders are meeting in Bonn to move forward with the Paris Climate Agreement. India is vital in moving forward with the Paris Agreement to both combat global warming and shift to clean energy to protect communities in India from harmful […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Photo of an Amur tiger taken by a field camera set by officials to monitor tiger and leopard presence in the Wangqing Nature Reserve. Photo: Wangqing Tiger & Leopard National Park Bureau “They’ve caught both tigers and leopards on this camera,” translated my NRDC colleague Lisa Hua, her […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Developing and emerging economies could save $40 billion worth of electricity and prevent 320 million metric tonnes of carbon pollution annually simply by transitioning to LED lighting, according to estimates from United Nation’s Environment. Today speakers at a side event to the big international climate change conference (COP 23) occurring […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund As the Oregon legislature considers implementing a carbon cap-and-invest law, the state should look to Ontario for an example of an environmentally and economically successful program in a similar jurisdiction. Senate Bill 1070, would set in motion an economy-wide carbon pollution market. Carbon markets function by capping greenhouse […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund [embedded content] The following is a transcript of the video: Melissa Mays, resident of Flint, Michigan: The first time we heard that they were thinking of switching to the Flint River, we laughed. We thought it was a joke. Because there’s a ton of cars in there, shopping […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund This blog post was written by my colleague Arjun Krishnaswami. Long before the recent hurricanes, the electric utilities in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) struggled to meet customer needs. Hurricanes Irma and Maria exacerbated the problem immensely; 1.2 million households remain without power over a […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Many eyebrows and a good deal of ire were raised recently when the Interior Department announced it planned to double and in some cases nearly triple entry fees to America’s grandest national parks to $70. For a lot of families, $70 is a lot of money, especially on […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The Environmental Protection Agency’s Scott Pruitt asked Americans in April how they feel about rolling back health and environmental safeguards. More than 468,000 people responded, a fact the EPA boss celebrated in a recent summary report to President Trump. What he failed to mention is that people yelled […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund On Thursday, the House Natural Resources Committee passed a bill, called the “SECURE American Energy Act” (H.R. 4239), that can only be described as an oil industry wish-list. The bill’s purpose is to mow down environmental concerns that stand in the way of the complete exploitation of fossil […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund With smart policies and clean technologies like zero emission vehicles, Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states have an opportunity to build a 21st century transportation system that saves money, creates jobs, and protects public health. Metro Transit via Flickr A clean and modern transportation system that gets people to work, […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund This year, the hole in earth’s ozone layer was the smallest observed since 1988 NASA/NASA Ozone Watch/Katy Mersmann First, the good news: The hole in our atmosphere’s ozone layer is the smallest it’s been since 1988—and you can credit the Montreal Protocol, a 1987 treaty banning ozone-destroying chemicals, […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund In its recent comments at FERC on the DOE proposal, PJM floated an idea that would inflate electricity market prices, particularly for large, inflexible, coal and nuclear power plants at times when they are least needed but can’t turn down their output. If PJM has its way, it […]
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. What a Load of Bull U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has been restocking the agency’s scientific advisory committees this week, mostly with industry insiders. And one of […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund This year, Adélies had to travel across more sea ice than usual to reach their feeding grounds. Andrew Shiva via Wikimedia Commons An enormous colony of Adélie penguins—around 40,000 of them—lives in eastern Antarctica. Scientists have been observing these flightless birds since the 1960s, and each year between […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Bonn, Germany, site of COP 23 Pixabay Facing a new reality in the wake of monster storms, unprecedented flooding, dangerous and record-breaking heat and drought, wildfires and other challenges, cities stand determined to set their own framework for climate action. That framework increasingly includes not just working to […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund A California administrative law judge’s proposed decision on the ground-breaking proposal to retire and replace Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant is deeply flawed, and completely misses a golden opportunity to enhance clean energy and better protect Californians from the growing dangers of climate change. Its key shortcoming is […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund You don’t pay for a $1.5 trillion handout with $100 million a year. Design Pics Inc/Alamy Here’s an idea. Let’s give a $1.5 trillion tax handout to corporations, Wall Street high rollers, and the country’s wealthiest families, then tell everybody we’ll help pay for it by giving away protected public […]