Ending fossil fuel subsidies by 2020 – a goal for China G20
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Read the full article at: https://www.nrdc.org/experts/han-chen/ending-fossil-fuel-subsidies-2020-goal-china-g20
Seismic Sound’s Dangerous
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Smoke from Indonesian fires is impacting other countries (again)
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Read the full article at: https://www.nrdc.org/news/smoke-indonesian-fires-impacting-other-countries-again
President Obama creates world’s largest marine protected area
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Critical Measures to be Debated at Global Conservation Event
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund In just a few days, I will be leading an NRDC delegation of lawyers, scientists, and policy experts to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) World Conservation Congress, which will be held in the U.S. (Honolulu, Hawaii) for the first time in its 60-year history. […]
Environmental Justice: One Texas Man’s Refinery Fight
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund One day earlier this summer, as the temperature climbed into the mid-90s and the humidity rose to match it, Bryan Parras decided to go for a run. A run between Houston and New Orleans. He’s not crazy—he had a good reason. Participating in one leg of the Peace & […]
What Just Happened? California Passes Major Climate Bills
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Less than a month after critical climate legislation was declared dead by Capitol insiders, oil lobbyists, and some California legislators, today we celebrate passage of two bills that together enact the most aggressive emissions targets in North America and require California – the world’s sixth-largest economy – to […]
Place and Purpose: My Summer with NRDC in Montana
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Guest blog post written by Emma Fisher. A trail in the Bridger Mountains As a nature-loving girl raised just outside of Chicago, the thought of moving to the mountains and immersing myself in environmental issues through a Western lens always seemed both fascinating and fun. This summer, I […]
Executive Order Would Drive Climate Progress in Colorado
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund As the impacts of climate change intensify in Colorado – leading to diminishing snowpack, more severe droughts, and larger wildfires – the urgency of reducing carbon pollution grows clearer. The good news is that there also has never been a better time for Colorado to transition to a […]
Happy 100th Birthday, National Park Service!
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund An intrepid group learns to cook with only the heat from a hot spring, Yellowstone National Park, 1924. National Park Service Historical Photograph Collection/Photographer Cribbs A surprise guest stops in to listen to the radio, Yosemite National Park, 1920. National Park Service Historical Photograph Collection/Photographer James V. Lloyd […]
Latin America Green News This Week: 8/17 – 7/24/2016
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Chile to sign Paris agreement, warming temps threaten potato crops, indigenous community challenges Nicaraguan canal To get the weekly Latin America Green News blog delivered directly to your email, subscribe here. August 17 – 24, 2016 Climate Change Chilean President Michelle Bachelet announced her intent to formally sign the […]
Costa Rica ran on renewable energy for 113 days in a row
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Costa Rica ran on renewable energy for 113 days in a row – The Central American country got 100 percent of its electricity using a combination of wind, solar, and geothermal energy. The […]
When Invasive Species Strike the Third World, People Can Starve
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Since its introduction to Guam in the late 1940s, the brown tree snake has done significant damage to the island’s economy and essentially destroyed its native ecology (especially bird populations). USDA Global trade is the number one avenue for stowaway pests. Along with goods, the United States alone […]
Protecting Our National Parks for Another 100 Years
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund “Europe has cathedrals. We have national parks,” says Stephen Saunders, president of the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization, neatly capturing the significance of these 59 national treasures, which include important monuments as well as parklands. But as we honor their majesty on this 100th anniversary of the National Park […]
Time Is Now for Carbon Pollution Standard for Transportation
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Approaching the finish line last week, a record number of comments flooded in about the Federal Highway Administration’s proposal to measure congestion, and adopt new standards for tracking and ultimately reducing carbon pollution from transportation plans. About 5,000 of these opposed the set of congestion metrics included in […]
Obama Designates Maine’s North Woods as National Monument
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund © Edward Faulkner Maine’s North Woods are something special. An incredible contrast to the lobsters and rocky beaches of the coast, there are scores of moose; freezing, trout-filled, rivers; geometric mountain peaks; and vast expanses of green. It’s a different world, which President Obama recognized today when he […]
Report: EU Policies Put Biodiversity, U.S. Forests at Risk
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The European Commission earlier this month released a startling new report acknowledging in detail the far-reaching environmental impacts of the exploding trans-Atlantic wood pellet trade. The report validates much of what NRDC and our partners in the environmental community on both sides of the Atlantic have been sounding […]
Wind power is booming in the United States
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Wind power is booming in the United States – A new report released by the Department of Energy says the country now generates more electricity from wind than any other country in the […]
President Obama heads to flood-devastated Louisiana.
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. President Obama heads to flood-devastated Louisiana. – The president is visiting Baton Rouge today to tour areas inundated by a recent storm and discuss recovery plans. Intense deluges like the one that dumped […]
Sometimes Market Forces Work
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Most of my experience over the past 40 years shows that the market forces they teach you about in Economics 101 don’t work when it comes to energy efficiency. Just about every day our team hears new examples of efficiency options that make great sense economically but are […]