Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund A stellar new report from the World Resources Institute takes a no-nonsense look at the business case for food waste reduction—at the idea that wasting food is an inevitable cost of doing business or that reducing food waste is somehow “too expensive” to make sense. What did they […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Three new bills were recently introduced by California Senate Pro Tem Kevin de León and other state champions, all designed to protect California against environmental harm from the anti-environment antics of the Trump Administration and Congress. These bills can be a model for other states that want to […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Brough Turner/Flickr Hudson River near Hadley, New York Last fall, a whale made a go of Manhattan. The humpback, eventually named Gotham, chased schools of herring from New York Bay into the Hudson River, as delighted onlookers snapped photos of its tail flukes framed by the city skyline. […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The Trump administration plans to slash the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) budget by 17 percent, targeting programs that are crucial to America’s economy and public health and safety, according to a Washington Post report. The leaked OMB document obtained by the Post reportedly shows that the […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund FERC Should Remove Barriers to DER & Storage in Markets The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)—the agency tasked by Congress to remove barriers to competition in the wholesale electricity markets—has proposed a rule seeking to remove several such obstacles to electric storage and distributed energy resources (DERs), such […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund One could see President Trump’s handling of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline as one of several early tests of his supposed negotiating prowess: could he get a foreign corporation wanting to build an oil pipeline across America to use American steel for the pipe? Forget possible legal […]
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. Trump delivers his first address to a joint session of Congress. Chris Kleponis/SIPA/Newscom Climate Change Ignorer President Trump gave his first address to Congress on Tuesday. The first half […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Pollution in the Anacostia River, Maryland Kamaweti Mutu/Flickr Nearly halfway through his first 100 days, President Donald Trump is on track to set a record for putting Americans’ health and our environment at risk. In recent days, we’ve seen Trump issue an order to keep streams and rivers […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference Gage Skidmore/Flickr This story originally appeared on Climate Central. The Trump administration wants to “zero out” many climate-related programs and grants that help state and local governments enforce environmental laws, according to a memo sent this week […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund NRDC Cities are the incubators of change. I had the opportunity to see city leadership in action during my recent visit to Ahmedabad, a rapidly urbanizing city in western India grappling with rising air pollution levels. In an innovative step, the city along with NRDC and other partners, […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund This post was authored by Rachel Fakhry, Schneider Fellow, NRDC. The shift away from coal presents the U.S. with an exciting opportunity to lead a global transition to a clean energy economy. In that context, NRDC argues in an issue brief published today we should capitalize on clean […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Katherine Welles/iStock Georgians adore their electric cars. With more than 26,000 plug-ins quietly cruising its roads, the Peach State holds the title for the nation’s second-largest fleet. Most are found in Atlanta, whose 500 charging stations make driving on electricity easy, practical, and of course free of tailpipe […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Colombian organization seeks to save seed species, Guatemala and UK Space Agency team up to fight deforestation, jobs in renewable energy sector are on the rise February 24 – March 2, 2017 Climate Change Record breaking temperatures during recent years have left much of Mexico in a troubling […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund In his speech to Congress, President Trump simultaneously continued his attack on the regulatory system and continued to claim that he supports clean air and water, among other public goods. The problem is that the way we’ve cleaned our air and our water is through federal regulation, and […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The Senate is expected to confirm former Texas Governor Rick Perry’s nomination as secretary of Energy this week. President Trump has attempted to stack his cabinet with friends of polluting industries, and Perry, as a climate-waffler with deep ties to the fossil fuel industry, fits that bill. Yet […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Ben Shattuck sketching wildflowers in Gates of the Arctic National Park Courtesy of Ben Shattuck Great Smoky Mountains National Park was the most visited national park last year, welcoming 11.3 million people to its swath of Appalachia. By contrast, Alaska’s Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund In a recent op-ed by Contra Costa Water District’s Board President Lisa M. Borba and Contra Costa Country Sanitary District Director Paul H. Causey, the duo states that California’s efforts to advance water efficiency will diminish recycled water investments and dis-incentivize future recycled water projects. As a civil […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund When he turned the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline from dead and gone into a reawakened zombie, President Trump claimed that his doing so would mean new construction jobs, steel manufacturing jobs, and money for the United States. Before he was elected, he used the pipeline to […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund President Trump may have set some kind of record on Tuesday making eight false statements about a single rule in the span of just a few minutes. While signing an executive order he said was aimed at “the elimination” of the Clean Water Rule—which protects wetlands and streams […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund India’s Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) is predicting April 2017 to be one degree hotter than normal. According to the IMD outlook, above normal temperatures are likely over most parts of the India during February, March and April 2017. With climate change, rising temperatures and every year since 2014 […]