U.S. Senate Rejects Attempt to Force Approval of Keystone Pipeline
November 18, 2014
The Supply Chain Word of 2014: Omnichannel
By Jason Mathers As we head into the last months of 2014 – and more importantly, the holiday season — I'm ready to make my nomination for the "word of the year." And no, it’s not “salmon cannon,” “bromance,” or others proposed by John Oliver or Stephen Colbert. The word…
Whither TSCA reform post-election?
By Richard Denison Richard Denison, Ph.D. , is a Lead Senior Scientist . [This post is adapted from comments I gave at a recent Friday Forum hosted by the American Bar Association’s Pesticides, Chemical Regulation and Right-to-Know Committee.] Elections change some things and don’t change…
URGENT ALERT: Tell the Senate to vote NO on Keystone XL
The Senate will be voting on Keystone XL any minute. Approval would take us backwards at time when we should be spurring investments in clean energy and climate action. C4.
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: Nov.18, 2014
NFWF Announces $13.2 million in Support of Louisiana’s Coastal Master Plan Washington D.C, Nov. 17, 2014. “The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) today announced $13.2 million in funding to support critical monitoring and other related activities to benefit priority barrier islands and…
Kids Deserve Safe Drinking Water at School and at Home
By Dr. Francine St-Denis, OGWDW I love watching my boys playing outside. After running around, they’ll bound up to the nearest water fountain for a drink of water. Nothing seems to beat the fascination my boys and most young kids seem to have with water fountains. It could be that the bubbling…
ERCOT Releases Report on Clean Power Plan, Overlooks Grid Reliability Potential
November 17, 2014
Two Years After Sandy, the Conversation Around Energy Resiliency Still Going Strong
By EDF Blogs By: Audrey Hornick-Becker From left to right: Bruce Schlein, Director, Alternative Energy Finance, Citi; Vic Rojas, EDF senior manager, financial policy; Bryan Garcia, President, Connecticut Green Bank; Alfred Griffin, President, NY Green Bank. Source: Maria Jiang. Last week, EDF…
Clean, Distributed Energy Can Benefit Low-Income Families
By EDF Blogs By: Jorge Madrid and Marilynn Marsh-Robinson We’ve spent nearly 15 years collectively working on clean energy solutions for both rural and urban communities, often with under-resourced and underrepresented people at the front of our minds. One question, among many, that is…
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: Nov. 17, 2014
BP asks judge to cap spill penalties at $12 billion By Collin Eaton, FuelFix. Nov. 17, 2014. “BP wants a federal judge to cap its potential oil-spill pollution fines at a maximum of $12.3 billion, a move that would cut away nearly a third of the penalties U.S. prosecutors are seeking for the…
An Internship that Wasn’t a Waste
By Sarah Martynowski During the summer, EPA hosts several events to provide interns with enriching experiences in the D.C. metropolitan area. Last summer, we visited the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant, located along the Potomac River. Designed to treat an average daily flow of 370…
Two Political Lessons from Germany’s Energiewende
By Peter Sopher As the recent midterm elections have thrust American politics to the media’s forefront, battles for political power are fresh in our minds. While Democrats and Republicans are not the contestants in governments outside of the U.S., struggle for power among groups whose ideals clash…
Fish Extinction
CBS news reports that a new study by by Boris Worm, PhD, of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia predicts the extinction of all salt water fish by 2048. This extinction will be due to due to overfishing, pollution, habitat loss, and climate change. “I was shocked and disturbed by how…
President’s Pledge to the Green Climate Fund Shows Leadership, Advances America’s National Interest
November 14, 2014
EPA Strengthens Methane Reporting Requirements for Oil and Gas Industry
November 14, 2014
US-China climate pact a "game changer" for clean energy
By EDF Blogs ( This blog by Karin Rives originally appeared on EDF Voices ) President Barack Obama and President Xi Jinping of the People's Republic of China. Source: Flickr/White House For the first time, the world's two largest greenhouse gas emitters have pledged to reduce carbon…
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: Nov.14, 2014
Judge sticks to BP gross negligence ruling in 2010 oil spill case By Associated Press, The Times-Picayune. Nov. 13, 2014. “A federal judge in New Orleans is sticking to his ruling that said BP's conduct in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil rig disaster amounted to "gross negligence.…” (…
History 101: Pollution rules good for economy and pocketbooks
By Mandy Warner Source: Flickr/Ervins Strauhmanis This blog originally appeared on EDF Voices So our political landscape is morphing yet again, and the future looks uncertain. But there are some things we know will happen over and over, like rituals. We know that next time it snows, someone will…
Your city tests your tap water regularly. Find out what they’ve learned.
By Adrienne Harris “Is my city’s tap water safe?” I get this question from friends and family a lot because I work in EPA’s Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water. Just recently, my parents moved to a new city and asked me if there was anything in the drinking water that they should be…
Effects of Climate Change Irreversible
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concludes that humans must reduce their carbon emissions to zero. The statement that carbon emissions must fall to zero was “game-changing”, according to Kaisa Kosonen of Greenpeace. “We can still limit warming to 2C, or even 1.5C or less…