Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON- Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized updates to the agency’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) that will help protect communities in the eastern U.S. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-finalizes-rule-reduce-smog-forming-pollution-transported-across-state-lines
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Toxic nanoparticles found in human brains – A new study of brain tissue from 37 people found abundant quantities of magnetite particles, an iron oxide that comes from industrial air pollution. The finding […]
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 & […]
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 […]
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 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 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 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 United Nations [UN] Environment Programme Festival’s Enviro Day to showcase UN Environment initiatives boosting air quality and protecting human health 44,000 years of life, one-fifth of GDP are lost in Bosnia and Herzegovina annually due to poor air quality Read the full article at: http://www.unep.org/NewsCentre/default.aspx?DocumentID=27081&ArticleID=36244&l=en
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Photo by Amy Goerwitz Chicago Tribune investigative reporters have put together an excellent series detailing the social and environmental damage being wrought by Illinois’ profusion of industrial hog farms. The series explains in stomach-churning detail everything from animal abuse to worker abuse to chokingly high levels of air […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced grants to six research organizations to develop and use low-cost air pollution sensor technology, while engaging communities to learn about their local air quality. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-awards-45-million-advance-air-monitoring-technology
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Although Governor Brown today announced that legislation critical to transforming California’s statewide electric grid operator into a regional entity will not be taken up by the Legislature this year, supporters have committed to work through the fall to prepare a new proposal for consideration when it reconvenes in […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy When the heat index is well over 100 degrees, Washington, D.C. locals will do whatever it takes to stay cool. This summer, the National Building Museum is making it easier than ever to escape the heat—by bringing an icy environment straight to our backyard. Their new exhibit, Icebergs, is a massive installation […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund A rower training in Rio de Janeiro’s Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon Ricardo Moraes/Reuters The opening ceremonies of the 2016 Summer Olympics get underway tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro. As everyone knows, spirited competition will unfold over the next two weeks; Friday’s festivities, by contrast, are all about the […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The country’s role in combating global climate change is more important than ever. Guilin, China We got a timely alert on the growing dangers of climate change this week, when scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration teamed up with their counterparts from 61 other nations to report from […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund This week marks the one-year anniversary of the announcement of President Obama’s historic Clean Power Plan, our nation’s first-ever limits on carbon pollution from the electric power sector—the single biggest source of climate change-fueling CO2 in America. While there are limits on dangerous emissions like sulfur and mercury from power […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Mexico & U.S. give hope to Vaquita Marina, Peru ratifies Paris Agreement, Chile’s economy too dependent on natural resources To get the weekly Latin America Green News blog delivered directly to your email, subscribe here. July 21 – July 27, 2016 Feature: Mexico-U.S. Bilateral Priorities Last week, President Obama […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund India Green News is a selection of news highlights about environment and energy issues in India. July 6 – July 18, 2016Compiled by Jessica Korsh Climate Change WHO: Climate change may kill 250k yearly Climate change is likely to kill 250,000 more people each year by 2030, latest […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Through its much-discussed Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) effort to modernize our electric system for the 21st century—we’ve blogged about it here and here—the New York Public Service Commission (PSC) is well positioned to put the pedal to the metal on the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) in […]