Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund FEMA issued a Preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Maps for New York City in January 2015. New York City and FEMA are working to resolve issues and finalize the maps. Source: NYC Flood Maps The recent hurricanes, which inflicted severe damage from Puerto Rico to Texas’ Gulf Coast, have […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The Environmental Protection Agency announced this week that it has issued a proposal to repeal the Clean Power Plan (CPP), which aims to reduce dangerous carbon pollution from power plants. Rolling back this critical policy makes no sense, especially given the tremendous clean energy progress already occurring throughout […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Some of the most significant benefits of the Clean Power Plan, which the Trump Administration is now proposing to repeal, are to low-income Americans—those most likely to suffer most from climate change. The CPP set the nation’s first-ever limits on carbon pollution from power plants—one of our country’s […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Ohio is ground zero for a transition that has been underway in the electric sector for years—an unstoppable shift from a high-pollution, fossil-fueled past to a safer, cleaner-powered future. Cleveland Wind Turbine Flickr, Creative Commons Coal-fired power once dominated Ohio’s electric generation mix, but coal (and for that […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Silver carp captured in the Illinois waterway, June 2017 Courtesy of Illinois Department of Natural Resources Scalpel in hand, Greg Whitledge cuts into an Asian carp’s skull. Just hours before, the silver carp lay in an ice-packed cooler in the back of an Illinois Department of Natural Resources […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Today in federal district court in Great Falls, Montana, the next chapter in the battle over the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is being written. In a suit brought by NRDC and its allies at Northern Plains Resource Council, Bold Alliance, Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Tropical Storm Harvey in the Gulf of Mexico on August 24 NOAA/NASA GOES Project Once its deadly winds have calmed, a hurricane’s wrath isn’t over. The disaster simply morphs into a different type of catastrophe. As we’re currently seeing in post-Maria Puerto Rico, the systems on which society […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund This is part of a series of blogs on NRDC’s new report, “America’s Clean Energy Frontier: The Pathway to a Safer Climate Future,” A safer climate future will require that the United States cut climate pollution by at least 80 percent by 2050. Doing so will require a […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Sunset2 by Barbara Eckstein via Creative Commons As Michigan moves forward on clean energy and climate action, President Trump counters with attempts to undo the Clean Power Plan and prop up coal and nuclear plants. At a time when the administration should be supporting the progress made in […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund What began as bills dismantling the successful renewable energy and energy efficiency standards evolved into legislation that in fact improved aspects of both. Two years of testimony, substitutes, amendments, and caucuses finally concluded with the passing of a comprehensive energy package that had something for everyone. The achievement […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund This is part three of a series of blogs highlighting recent progress in onshore and offshore wind energy, as well as discussing some of the continued opportunities, challenges and threats the industry faces in the near term. This blog focuses on research and collaboration surrounding wind project siting […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The Trump Environmental Protection Agency has announced plans to try to repeal the Clean Power Plan, and deny Americans annual health benefits that include avoiding 3,600 premature deaths; 90,000 asthma attacks in children; 1,700 hospital admissions; and 300,000 missed days of school and work. The EPA’s Clean Power […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund India Green News: India could end up as one of the worst affected by climate change; IMF; India’s renewable energy capacity to double by 2022, report says; Delhi’s air goes from moderate to poor, likely to get worse soon India Green News is a selection of news […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund This post was written by Jennifer Skene Yesterday was Indigenous Peoples’ Day, a celebration of the Indigenous communities living in North America since long before the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria set sail from Spain. States, cities, and universities across the U.S. are embracing Indigenous Peoples’ […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund A district court in northern California is hearing a motion to dismiss for a lawsuit with far-reaching implications for the freedom to speak out against harmful corporate practices. In 2016, Resolute Forest Products (Resolute), a logging company known for trying to stifle criticism through litigation, sued Greenpeace and […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund In our last post, we covered how EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt fiddled with the accounts to inflate the costs of the Clean Power Plan, when in reality the rule is achievable at even lower cost than the EPA originally projected. In this post, we’ll focus on how Pruitt […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Today, the Trump Administration is releasing its proposal to repeal the Clean Power Plan, which set the first-ever limits on carbon pollution from power plants – one of our country’s largest sources of the pollution driving climate change. Scott Pruitt’s political team at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Without much fanfare on this side of the Atlantic, the European Union is actively and effectively pushing back on one of the biggest bullies in the corporate sandbox, Monsanto. This week in Brussels the European Parliament’s Environment and Agriculture committees will hold a public hearing on The Monsanto […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Speaking on FOX News from Hazard, Kentucky, as the season’s fourth hurricane still pummels the southeast, EPA chief Scott Pruitt said that tomorrow he will propose to repeal the Clean Power Plan, the landmark Obama-era regulation to cut the power plant pollution that’s driving dangerous climate change and […]
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. Rick’s Picks: Coal and Nuclear U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry is trying to stave off the planned retirement of dozens of out-of-date coal-fired and nuclear power plants. […]