Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund New cars are achieving record high fuel economy and cutting carbon pollution to unprecedented levels, according to U.S. automotive data released today. This comes as federal clean car and fuel economy standards tightening each year. Simply put, these standards are doing what they were designed to do: boosting […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Meeting our global commitments to climate stabilization will require an even greater emphasis on energy efficiency policies than we expected before the Paris Agreement. However, analysis has shown that while policy has been fundamental to unprecedented efficiency gains in recent years, only one-third of the world’s energy use […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Global carbon intensity fell last year along with coal consumption – Global carbon intensity (the emissions per unit of GDP) dropped by 2.8 percent in 2015—more than double the average from 2000 to […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. It is a lot of people showing their support for Standing Rock…They can’t be with us here physically, but they are with us in spirit and prayer. —Protestor leader Mekasi Camp Horinek comments […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund It deserves — and demands — a nationwide response. Jamie Hooper/Fotolia Ask any parent, and they’ll tell you without hesitation that their most important responsibility is keeping their kids safe and healthy. As the mother of a young daughter myself, I’ll vouch that this is certainly true for me. And it’s equally […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund This guest blog was written by Jessica Magenwirth, DVM, a veterinarian and Masters in Public Health candidate with a focus on global health and policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Antibiotics given to livestock make up roughly two-thirds of all global use of antibiotics, with the rest […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund This blog was co-authored with Mark LeBel, Staff Attorney at Acadia Center. The New York Department of Public Service has proposed to change the way distributed energy resources (like community solar and small wind projects) are rewarded for the benefits that they provide to the electricity system. The […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Want to save a lot of money as you prepare to move your clock back one hour for the end of Daylight Savings Time on Sunday (Nov. 6)? Head over to your hardware store and buy some energy-saving LED light bulbs to prepare for the period when the […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Parts of Europe could become desert by the end of the century – A new study warns that without drastic cuts to greenhouse gas emissions, climate change is on track to disrupt the […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Antarctica’s Ross Sea will become home to the world’s largest marine protected area – At a meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, delegates from 24 countries […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Pacific Gas and Electric Co. Will the retirement and replacement of California’s last nuclear power plant increase costs for customers? NRDC and the plant’s owner, the Pacific Gas & Electric Company, agree that running Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant after 2025 would cost more than replacing it with […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund This ranger gives you a grisly tour of the national parks, now owned by Nature Corp. Will Star Smokey Bear is waving a chainsaw, but it’s his screaming, genetically modified friend that causes you to jump backwards. The humanoid animal is scantily clad and gliding straight at you […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund A report released today underscores the high stakes to our health, environment, and pocketbooks if we fail to move aggressively to put many more zero-emission vehicles on the road to replace polluting gasoline-powered cars and trucks. The report, Clean Air Future, from the American Lung Association finds that the public […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Study says wildlife populations fell 58 percent in 40 years – A new analysis by the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London says worldwide, wildlife numbers plummeted by 58 percent […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund There’s a shocking global statistic that we may be on the cusp of changing for good. Here it is: If U.S. buildings were a country, they would be the third largest energy consumer in the world. That may be surprising because we concentrate a lot on carbon reduction […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund About 1,250 endangered Rothchild’s giraffes live north of the Nile River in Uganda’s Murchison Falls National Park. Joel Sartore The veterinarian leaned out the Land Cruiser’s passenger-side window, a tranquilizer gun propped on his shoulder. After eyeing a herd of giraffes, he leveled the rifle and took a […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Sweden is on track to get all of its energy from renewables – The country plans to get 100 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2040, and this week a regulatory […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Bearded seals win endangered species protections – A federal appeals court has overturned a 2014 ruling that said the species didn’t deserve an endangered status. The judge ruled that shrinking sea ice and […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund In another important step towards reining in harmful air pollution from the oil and gas industry, last week EPA finalized guidelines triggering Clean Air Act requirements for states to address the sector’s contribution to ozone smog in areas of the country struggling with this pollution. Many areas are […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Everyone wants reliable and affordable electricity service generated from increasing amounts of clean, renewable resources like wind and solar. A nationwide conversation is underway over how to recover the costs of upgraded electricity distribution grids that are essential to achieving that objective. Greentech Media recently invited me and […]