Groups Support FERC’s Role in Enabling a Cleaner, More Efficient Energy System
February 17, 2015
Travis County Takes Lead on Energy and Water Efficiency Financing for Texas Industry
February 17, 2015
People-Powered Pricing: Nudging Illinois toward Time-of-Use Electricity Plans
By Jamie Fine This week I submitted testimony in support of a petition by the Citizens Utility Board and, my shop, EDF, to urge the Illinois Commerce Commission to require Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) and Ameren, two of Illinois’ biggest utilities, to provide families and individuals with new…
Misguided Legal Attacks on Clean Power Plan Seek to Undermine Clean Air Act, Public Participation
By Tomas Carbonell Source: iStock The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will finalize rules establishing the nation’s first limits on carbon pollution from the power sector – the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States – by mid-summer of this year. This timetable…
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: Feb. 13, 2015
Jindal administration shouldn’t raid coastal trust fund to patch budget: Editorial By The Editorial Board, Times-Picayune. Feb. 13, 2015 “It is significant because it breaks the state's practice of truly protecting the Coastal Fund from diversions that boost the state general operating…
EDF, CUB Urge Illinois Electric Utilities to Offer Cost-Saving Electricity Pricing Plans
February 13, 2015
New USDA Funding Underscores Critical Role of Ranchers in Sage-Grouse Conservation
February 12, 2015
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: Feb. 12, 2015
Louisiana coast authority recommends spending $32 million of oil spill fine money on Houma lock, Calcasieu River salinity control projects By Mark Schleifstein, Times-Picayune. Feb. 11, 2015 “The project is aimed at restoring historic salinity levels in the basin and will be designed to save more…
Are Energy Managers Making Progress? Introducing a Tool to Help
By EDF Blogs By: Liz Delaney , Program Director, EDF Climate Corps Energy management can be complicated, and the projects organizations must tackle run the gamut: from small-scale lighting and HVAC upgrades to whole building retrofits; from baselining energy consumption to data analysis of…
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: Feb. 11, 2015
Growing Deltas in Atchafalaya Bay By Adam Voiland, Earth Observatory. Feb. 09, 2015 “If we start diverting significant portions of the water and sediment from the main channel of the Mississippi River into adjacent wetlands, lakes, and bays—as happens now in Atchafalaya Bay—we’ll be taking…
California State Senators Propose New Climate Change and Clean Energy Legislation
February 10, 2015
A Significant Milestone for Opening Up the Discussion About Geoengineering
By Steven Hamburg Geoengineering is the deliberate large-scale manipulation of the Earth’s climate system to counteract the impact that pollutants are having on our climate. The proposals sound like the stuff of science fiction – spraying particles in the upper atmosphere to deflect some…
New Report on Geoengineering a “Significant Milestone” – SRMGI
February 10, 2015
Studies Provide Insight on Two Overlooked Segments of Oil and Gas Industry
By Peter Zalzal Scientists David Lyon and Ramón Alvarez contributed to this post Two studies released today in the journal of Environmental Science and Technology provide new insights into methane emissions from significant sources in the oil and natural gas sector and underscore the urgency of…
Spanish and Portuguese stakeholders meet to create shared vision for a sustainable octopus fishery
By Pam Ruiter Photo: Pseudopanax at English Wikipedia By: Raul Garcia Rodriguez, WWF Spain, and Pam Ruiter , EDF EU Oceans Raul Garcia is WWF Spain’s Fisheries Officer and Pam Ruiter is a Project Manager for EDF’s EU Oceans team based in Spain, where EDF and WWF are collaborating on a project…
Introducing Our New Compliance Website
By Marion Herz As chief of staff for EPA’s Office of Compliance, job #1 for me is protecting people’s health and their communities. Our office makes sure everyone plays by the same rules when it comes to the environment. We recently launched our new compliance website to make it easier to stay…
It’s Your Right to Know: The Toxics Release Inventory National Analysis
By Caitlin Briere In order to make the products on which we depend, like pharmaceuticals, clothing, and other manufactured goods, companies across the U.S. use thousands of chemicals in their normal operations. Many of the chemicals necessary to these economic activities are toxic. While most are…
Want Less Cancer from Environmental Causes? Let’s Get Building Codes to Reduce Radon
By Jani Palmer As part of our Indoor Environments Division, my colleagues and I work to reduce people’s exposure to radon, the leading environmental cause of cancer deaths in the U.S. Radon comes from the natural breakdown of uranium in soil, rock and water – where it naturally occurs. Radon…
A PIAEE Winner’s Path Forward
By Gerry Reymore Greetings from Vermont! The snow is falling and the temperature is a chilly 20 degrees. As a teacher, I’m busy starting the second half of the school year. If your school is anything like ours, you don’t have time to even blink from now until graduation in June. The rest of the…
All Dried Up – Advice for Drought-Impacted Water Utilities
By Bailey Kennett Born and raised in upstate New York, the idea of drought was pretty foreign to me. Some summers were dry, and maybe our backyard veggies didn’t do so well, but after some disappointment, we’d just cross our fingers and hope for the weather to turn before the season ended. This…