Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Aside from the rustle of wind-tossed leaves or the creak of a limb, silence is the prevailing sound most of us hear from a tree. But biologist, writer, and poet David George Haskell has finer-tuned senses than most. The Songs of Trees by David George Haskell, Viking, 304 […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Looks can be deceiving – and this is certainly the case with the pot of money dedicated to the California Low-Income Weatherization Program, known as LIWP. By law, a portion of California cap-and-trade auction proceeds are dedicated to LIWP to extend the reach and boost the impact of […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Phthalates—difficult to say, and bad for your health Eventually, toxic chemicals are no longer tolerated by an increasingly informed public, retailers and product manufacturers, and regulators. In the meantime, however, they manage to do a lot of damage while those with vested interests muddy the scientific waters and […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Argentina’s wine production took a hit last year, Chilean’s concerned about air pollution, will another action aimed at saving the Vaquita work this time? To get the weekly Latin America Green News blog delivered directly to your email, subscribe here. April 7 – 13, 2017 Climate Change Following […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The future of climate action may seem bleak under Trump, but one need only look in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic to find a reason for optimism. Block Island wind farm off Rhode Island Courtesy Deepwater Wind This is the first in a monthly series highlighting the clean energy […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund When it comes to water infrastructure, New York is going in big. In the budget bill that passed last week, New York set aside $2.5 billion for a clean water infrastructure program to fix and update the state’s aging drinking water and waste water treatment systems. This is […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund If you want to see the makings of an environmental train wreck, just hop a ferry from Anacortes, Washington, a couple of hours north of Seattle. There among the beautiful San Juan Islands, one of the world’s most iconic whale populations, the southern resident orcas, is struggling to […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund This year’s New York State budget includes a huge victory for farmers and hunger advocates alike with the passage of the Farm to Food Bank Tax Credit! Each year, millions of pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables go unharvested here in New York. Much of this produce is […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Cities around the world, especially in India, are grappling with some of the hottest March temperatures recorded in years. The western Indian city of Ahmedabad is working to address these deadly temperatures through a comprehensive resilience plan for heat waves—and a new cool roofs initiative focused on slum […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund President Trump has launched disastrous attempts to roll back domestic climate action and attempts to roll back international climate action through budget cuts. Plus, Press Secretary Sean Spicer recently said that the U.S. is reconsidering U.S. participation in the Paris Agreement and that the White House will make an […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Sheryll Durrant Keka Marzagao/Sustainable Flatbush Most people don’t move to New York City and become farmers. Sheryll Durrant certainly wasn’t planning to when she left Jamaica for Manhattan in 1989. She got her undergraduate degree in business from the City University of New York’s Baruch College and spent […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Will EPA ever regulate a chemical under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)? Judging solely on the history of the law, it is hard to be optimistic. Since 1976 when the law was first enacted, EPA has adopted partial restrictions on less than a dozen of 62,000 chemicals. […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund [embedded content] This story originally appeared on Climate Central. Climate change is putting one of the wonders of the world in a vice. For an unprecedented second year in a row, Great Barrier Reef coral have been decimated by a wave of warm water. Last year’s mass bleaching was fueled […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Instead, Congress Should Work With Stakeholders on Measures to Keep PACE Programs Growing With the Right Set of Consumer Protections Sen. Tom Cotton (R. Ark) has introduced a bill, the PACE Act of 2017, that would needlessly set back important emerging state and local energy efficiency and clean […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Versions of this blog first appeared as op-eds in the Helena Independent Record, Billings Gazette, Bozeman Daily Chronicle, and Missoulian. M-44 sodium cyanide device Guy Connolly, U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Wildlife Research Center M-44 cyanide ejectors mistakenly killed a wolf in Oregon, injured a young boy and […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund In the lead up to the Paris Agreement, the United States and China played a crucial role in showing how cooperation between the two largest economies and greenhouse gas emitters on addressing climate change could accelerate the transition to a clean energy future. Attacking Obama-era climate and clean […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund New York State just blocked the Northern Access Project, a pipeline that would have carried fracked gas from Pennsylvania to Canada via New York. This is a huge victory not just for New Yorkers but for the entire planet. On March 7, 2017, the New York State Department […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The pollution from this U.S. steel plant on an island in the Detroit River blows into Canada Neil Cornwall/Flickr As we’ve all seen, “America First” can be highly effective as a campaign slogan when your primary goal is to stoke resentment of globalism among the economically disaffected. But […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Pipeline under construction in Alberta, Canada rblood/Flickr If ever there was an environmental battle exemplifying a game of ping pong, it would be the stop-start story of the Keystone XL pipeline, also known as KXL. From the time it was proposed in 2008, through seven years of dogged […]
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. P.L. Herrera/iStock Trust Falls with Trump We all knew President Trump’s proposal to cut the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s budget by 31 percent would undermine vital programs. Now we’re […]