Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Today’s budget testimony from the EPA Administrator leaves us wondering who exactly is protecting our environment and health. Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images On the basis of congressional testimony Thursday from our nation’s top environmental steward, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, I can’t help […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Yesterday, NRDC joined people from all walks of life in Washington Crossing, PA to speak at the Delaware River Basin Commission’s (DRBC) business meeting in support of a ban on fracking in the Delaware River Watershed. We addressed all five members—representatives of the governors of New York, Pennsylvania, […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund If given a choice between buying a new car with high fuel efficiency and state of the art technology (assembled with parts made by workers right in your own state of Ohio), or a 1950s era Studebaker that runs only 50% of the time and costs billions of […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has trouble telling the truth. The world saw that from his brazen attempts on TV recently to spin President Trump’s withdrawal of the U.S. from the Paris climate accord. Many fact-checkers have called him out on his lies. See here, or here, […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund © Hans Hillewaert / CC BY-SA 4.0 Like a dollop of whole-grain mustard nestled among the seashore’s rocks and shells, a clutch of horseshoe crab eggs doesn’t look all that important. But for the threatened Rufa red knot, a migratory bird about the size of a robin, these […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Last month, EPA asked the public to suggest regulations for possible modification or repeal. Instead, the agency got an earful from folks across the country—hundreds of thousands of them—demanding that our nation’s environmental safeguards be maintained or even strengthened. The voices of Americans standing up for the health […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The Trump administration’s latest effort to undo the progress America is making in combating climate change is now targeted at our diets. On Monday, Trump’s Agriculture Department announced an end to a 14-year ban on American beef exports to China. Beef is the largest contributor to climate change […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Thanks to Mayor de Blasio’s recent commitment to adopt the principles of the Paris climate agreement and new legislation introduced last week in the New York City Council, the Big Apple will continue to play a vital role in helping to guard against climate change’s worst effects. New York City’s buildings […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s trip to Bologna this weekend for the G-7 Environment Ministers Meeting was bound to be awkward, coming less than two weeks after President Trump stuck his finger in the world’s eye on the Paris Climate Agreement. Pruitt added insult to insult-and-injury. The man who’s […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund As promised, NRDC sued the Trump administration today for delaying five energy efficiency standards that would generate more than $11 billion in energy bill savings and 25 million metric tons of reductions in carbon pollution. NRDC—as well as the Sierra Club and the Consumer Federation of America (both […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund I love the ocean. Its enormity inspires me, impresses me, moves me. Its future worries me. As the famous Oceanographer Sylvia Earle said, “With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.” Whether we […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund When Scott Pruitt speaks, he knows he must say that EPA needs to go back to its core mission of protecting air and water. The next sentence and paragraph usually then announces a new policy that weakens air and water protections. The one EPA program Pruitt speaks of […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Assembly Bill 206 sits on the desk of Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval. The bill would raise Nevada’s renewable portfolio standard (RPS)—the minimum amount of clean, renewable energy that power companies are required to get on behalf of their customers, to 40 percent by 2030. I published two blogs last week […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund New numbers from California show the state added jobs and expanded its economy while cutting greenhouse gas emissions 10 percent between 2004 and 2015. The data from the state’s Air Resources Board debunks yet again the tired argument that acting on climate change means sacrificing economic growth. In […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Woody debris on the forest floor of a structural complexity enhancement plot inside the Jericho Research Forest. Clara Chaisson/NRDC If you build it, they will come. These words, forest ecologist Bill Keeton tells me, are more or less the guiding principle behind his efforts to build not a […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund California homes and businesses must transition to clean, renewable sources of energy for heating our buildings and water in order to meet the state’s climate goals. A diverse group of 27 organizations – local governments, utilities, environmental organizations, and others – this week asked the California Public Utilities […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The blowback to President Trump’s announcement to exit the Paris climate agreement came swift and thunderous. Only such a generationally irresponsible move could raise the ire of leaders across all walks of society so quickly. Leaders from business, security, faith, and labor, as well as government leaders at […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Michael Vadon/Flickr Of all the mistruths, misapprehensions, and misrepresentations put forth by President Trump as he announced our nation’s withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement last week, perhaps none is more jaw-dropping than his assertion—stated numerous times and in various ways—that living up to our end of the […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund While America was riveted by former FBI director Comey’s testimony, the Trump administration put marine mammals and sage grouse at risk, continued to lie about climate change, and changed the DOI’s mission statement to favor polluters. Demonstrators protest President Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord, June 3, […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The Washington, D.C., March for Truth took place June 3, 2017 KellyBDC/Flickr Welcome to our weekly Trump v. Earth column, in which onEarth reviews the environment-related shenanigans of President Trump and his allies. Not Quite Seeing the Light President Trump pitched a new idea this week to get his border […]