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EPA Carbon Standards and Iowa: Breezing Past Proposed Goals
This post is co-presented with NRDC MAP Energy Policy Fellow and native Iowan Katharine McCormick. The Des Moines Register’s editorial board applauded the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for...
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Emails: ND Ethics Law Potentially Broken on Petraeus Fracking Trip
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog DeSmogBlog has obtained emails via North Dakota's Open Records Statute revealing facts that could be interpreted as indicating that North Dakota Treasurer Kelly Schmidt...
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FDA Issues Clarification on Wood Aging of Cheese
Yesterday culture reported on the surprising decision by the FDA to crackdown on cheesemakers who use wooden boards to age their cheeses. We also covered the American Cheese Society's response to this...
View ArticleOcean Conservancy Talks Trash... and Solutions
Plastic in our ocean -- I think we can all agree this isn't a good combination. The question is what do we do about it? This year, Ocean Conservancy and our partners collected the largest amount of...
View ArticleWhy Are Some in Congress Content to Let Wind Industry Jobs Blow Away?
This is a guest column from my colleague Dave Hamilton, director of clean energy for the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign. Believe it or not, there was a day when the Production Tax Credit for clean,...
View ArticleObama's Clean Air Standards: An Economic Bonus?
Will the new EPA carbon standards reduce pollution affordably while unleashing innovation? Or will they be a job-killing tax, leaving "Our pocketbook... lighter, but our country... darker," as...
View ArticleNanning Diary: Turning a Bear Bile Farm Into a Sanctuary, Peace by Piece
Arriving in Nanning, China to begin three days of emergency health checks on bears living on a former bear bile farm, we looked up at the sky, greeted by a beautiful crescent moon. A good sign...
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'Pay-As-You-Go' Solar Companies Win National Geographic Terra Watt Prize
Co-authored with Vrinda Manglik, Associate Campaign Representative, International Clean Energy Access Just as solar leasing from the likes of SolarCity unlocked the solar market in the U.S., pay as you...
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Godzilla and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism
It rose up out of the sea, a fearsome roaring monster unlike anything humans had ever seen, horrible, primeval, unstoppable, towering, breathing radioactive fire and leaving total destruction in its...
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Call to Action: Make Clothes Dryers More Energy-Efficient to Save Consumers...
NRDC is releasing a Call to Action today to help reduce the $9 billion worth of energy used by our clothes dryers, which few people realize are one of the largest energy users in our homes and...
View ArticleCoyote Ugly -- the Violent Sequel
On a frigid winter day in Michigan, a hunter shoots a coyote three or four times, gravely wounding the animal. Gasping for life, the poor creature lays prone, bleeding in the snow. The hunting ethic...
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Support Pope's Plan With Food for Peace
Pope Francis has been outspoken about ending world hunger, and getting the church more involved. This has to be done. What, though, are some ways citizens can help in terms of advocacy? One answer can...
View ArticleThe Climate Post: States, Studies React to EPA Rule Release
On the coattails of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's proposed rule for regulating carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the White House issued a report on the health effects of...
View ArticleIt Reeks of Injustice in Wasco, CA: A Latino Barrio Gets the Short End of the...
Very close to the city of Delano, CA, where Cesar Chavez conducted a great deal of his work for justice, it reeks of injustice. In Wasco -- in the San Joaquin Valley where tens of thousands of farm...
View ArticleGlobal Climate Change Is Worsening Instability and Making It Harder to Keep...
As a young National Guard Infantry Officer in Afghanistan, I learned from my commander that "a 75 percent plan on time is always better than a 100 percent plan too late." The fight we were engaged in...
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''Green News Report' - June 12, 2014
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: GOP Leader Eric Cantor defeated by climate denier who doesn't want you to know that he's a denier (and for good reason);...
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A Narrow Loss, But GE Labeling Is on Its Way
Two. That's the number of votes a bill to label genetically engineered (GE) foods recently fell short of in the California Senate. And not for lack of trying, or lack of public support. A powerful...
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You Need to Know: How Climate Change Affects the Food System
The climate change debate seems to buzz across the airwaves whether the country is gripped by a polar vortex or unseasonably hot temps, and it's not always easy to distinguish between political...
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Interview With Kumi Naidoo: "Our Main Problem Is Civil Obedience"
"There is no challenge greater in the history of humanity than the struggle to avert catastrophic climate change," warned Kumi Naidoo, the charismatic head of Greenpeace whilst speaking at London's...
View ArticleClimate Change: Expect the Unexpected
In the past few weeks, three different events/situations have kept me wondering about how climate change is impacting our lives in ways we cannot even imagine. The first surprise came about during a...
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