Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Sometimes you have to face facts, even if the truth isn’t pretty. That’s essentially what New York State Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation, Basil Seggos, wrote today in a strongly worded letter to the U.S. EPA regarding the cleanup of the massive amounts of toxic chemicals […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Mount Rainier National Park iStock The 84 million acres’ worth of parks and monuments the National Park Service has set aside in the public trust over the past century is a source of national pride and cause for celebration. But while we look back on 100 years of […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Devastation of the flood in downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa, June 13, 2008 The U.S. Army/Flickr (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Oscar M. Sanchez-Alvarez/Released) From Ellicott City, Maryland to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, recent floods have devastated our local communities, destroying businesses, washing away homes, and most tragically, […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund If California lawmakers are looking for yet another reason to pass Senate Bill 32 (Pavley) and Assembly Bill 197 (E. Garcia), which would reduce climate-changing pollution to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 and put new emphasis on measures that protect public health, they need only breathe […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Co-authored with Eric Weiner, Schneider Fellow, NRDC and Nehmat Kaur, India Representative. Momentum is building as India moves towards meeting its nationally determined climate targets and becoming a leader in clean energy. India’s Power Minister Piyush Goyal recently announced that India’s solar installed capacity crossed 8 gigwatts (GW), […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund “Impact (American Redstart)” Miranda Brandon The summer is flying by, and soon birds will start heading south for the winter. Sadly, many of them will have their trip cut short by a building. Collisions with windows are one of the leading threats to migratory birds, killing up to […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Wherever I go, I am proud to call California home. Not only is our state home to the tallest, oldest and biggest trees on earth, the people here are amazing – diverse, resilient and always busy building a better tomorrow. California, long an environmental trendsetter, is blazing the […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Nathan Rupert Life must have been pretty cushy for condors back in the Pleistocene. As connoisseurs of rotting flesh, these ancient buzzards would have had their pick of giant sloths, giant tortoises, giant armadillos, and the “giant” versions of myriad other hulking beasts. We’re talking about a time […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund It’s one thing to read scientific reports about the mental health impacts of climate and weather disasters and quite another to watch those impacts play out in real time on your Facebook feed. I used to live in Louisiana—first in Baton Rouge, and then in Lafayette—and my work […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Since 2012, U.S. consumers have saved more than $1 billion on their utility bills, thanks to energy efficiency improvements made in the new cable, satellite, and telephone set-top boxes placed in their homes by service providers like Time Warner Cable, AT&T, and Direct TV. Bringing down the national […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. A village in Alaska just voted to relocate – For the second time, the 600 people who live in Shishmaref want to move to the mainland to escape the threat of rising sea […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. There will be very few cities at the end of the century that will be able to hold the summer Olympics as we know them today. —John Balmes, a professor of public safety […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Brazil’s senate approves Paris Agreement, Energy leads private investment in Chile, Malaria makes a comeback in Venezuela To get the weekly Latin America Green News blog delivered directly to your email, subscribe here. Featured: Venezuela’s Public Health Crisis As if Venezuela’s recent economic collapse, public health crisis, energy […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Both political candidates claim that America needs to accelerate economic growth. This is accepted as a worthy goal by Paul Krugman, who notes that “some people I respect believe that trying to get …[the growth rate] back up should be a big goal of policy.” But Dr. Krugman […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund California’s publicly owned utilities have saved their customers more than $3 billion on energy bills over the past decade, NRDC’s most recent analysis shows, but much more progress is needed to meet the state’s goal of doubling energy efficiency savings by 2030. There are 46 publicly owned utilities (POUs), which […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The California Senate today introduced a plan to spend $1.2 billion in Greenhouse Gas Reduction Funds collected from the sale of pollution allowances, which will help drive more money—and benefits—to emissions reduction projects throughout the state, particularly in the hardest-hit communities. We look forward to working with the Senate, […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund As the world’s greatest athletes compete down in Rio this week, the U.S. wind industry is also breaking records of its own. And I’m not even talking here about standout, new projects announced in the last couple of months by MidAmerican Energy and Alliant Energy that can help […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio today released a study of the commercial carting industry in New York that highlights major deficiencies with existing operations and is likely to lead to broad scale reform of the waste industry in the nation’s largest city. The study, released by […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Growing concern over safety of cosmetics – Congress is considering whether to pass legislationthat would give the FDA the authority to more rigorously regulate beauty care products. Among the bill’s opponents is Wen […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Climate change is opening the Arctic to cruises – The luxury cruise ship Crystal Serenity leaves Alaska this week and will attempt to journey through the notorious Northwest Passage along with other unpredictable—and […]