4 Ways to Invest in the Low-Carbon Economy
By EDF Staff by Peter Sopher , Policy Analyst, Clean Energy Citigroup Inc. recently pledged $100 billion for lending, investing, and facilitating deals related to sustainability, renewable energy, and climate change mitigation. This is yet another sign that global capital markets are enormously…
Netherlands Sued Over Climate Change
A Dutch environmental group, Urgenda Foundation, has sued their own government for failing to adequately deal with global warming. A global warming of more than 2 degrees Celsius Urgenda says, “will lead to a violation of fundamental human rights worldwide.” In an interview with Dutch newspaper…
TOMORROW: EPA ADMINISTRATOR IN PORTLAND, OREGON, TO FOCUS ON AIR QUALITY AND CLEAN WATER
WASHINGTON – This Wednesday, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy will be in Portland, Oregon to award a Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) grant to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and speak at the Craft Brewers Conference about the importance of protecting our nation’s water…
The Science of the Spill
By Alisha Renfro, Coastal Scientist, National Wildlife Federation The blow out of the Macondo well claimed 11 lives and began the largest marine oil spill in U.S. history. It took 87 days to finally cap the well and by then at least 134 million gallons of crude oil had been expelled into the Gulf…
What InsideClimate Got Right And Wrong About EDF's Methane Work
By Eric Pooley On April 8, InsideClimate News published an in-depth story about Environmental Defense Fund’s groundbreaking work to measure emissions of methane. While we don’t agree with everything in the story, we’re glad it recognizes the scope, ambition and scientific integrity of our…
Getting From Here to There: California Thinks Beyond 2020
By Erica Morehouse Hollywood produces some duds, especially right after the end of Oscar season. But virtually all of the environmental scriptwriting that happens in the Golden State has four-star appeal. Californians are trailblazers in protecting the environment and our planet from harm. The state…
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: April 14, 2015
Gulf Revival – Incoming oil spill funds drive conservation efforts across the Gulf By Frederick Reimers, Carlton Ward Jr., Nature Conservancy Magazine. April/May, 2015 “The Gulf of Mexico is one of the nation’s most biologically productive regions, teeming with thousands of species. It’s…
What a trip to rural Thailand taught this Idaho farmer
By Suzy Friedman Dick Wittman and his family in the Chiang Mai region of Thailand. Last time you went to the grocery store, did you notice that your pineapple was from Costa Rica, your pears from Argentina, your edamame from China, your salmon from Scotland, and your rice from Thailand? To address…
WEDNESDAY: EPA ADMINISTRATOR IN PORTLAND, OR TO FOCUS ON AIR QUALITY AND CLEAN WATER
WASHINGTON – This Wednesday, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy will be in Portland, Oregon to award a Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) grant to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and speak at the Craft Brewers Conference about the importance of protecting our nation’s water…
5 Years Later – Birds Still Need Your Help
By Ashley Peters, Communications Associate, Audubon Louisiana In 2010, waves of oil in the Gulf strangled and crippled the very birds that conservationists had been fighting so hard to protect, like the Brown Pelican and Piping Plover. The outpouring of support was incredible as tens of thousands…
Clean Power Plan Litigation: An End Run around the Clean Air Act and the Democratic Process
By Tomas Carbonell This Thursday, April 16, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit will hear oral argument in three related cases — West Virginia v. EPA (No. 14-1146) and In re Murray Energy Corporation (No. 14-1112, 14-1151) — involving challenges to…
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: April 13, 2015
5 years later, no final word on BP spill’s effects *Features Doug Meffert, NAS, David Muth, NWF, Alisha Renfro, NWF By David Hammer, WWL TV & Richard Thompson, The New Orleans Advocate. April 12, 2015 “Five years on, many scientists say that it will take more time, perhaps even decades, to…
EDF Calls on Oil & Gas Industry Group to Drop Lawsuit Against First Responder Funding Following Arlington Blowout
April 13, 2015
4 Ways to Invest in the Low-Carbon Economy
By Peter Sopher Citigroup Inc. recently pledged $100 billion for lending, investing, and facilitating deals related to sustainability, renewable energy, and climate change mitigation. This is yet another sign that global capital markets are enormously interested in delivering capital into clean,…
TODAY: EPA ADMINISTRATOR TO DELIVER REMARKS AT NATIONAL WATER POLICY FORUM
WASHINGTON – EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy will speak today at the National Water Policy Forum. She will focus on the need to protect our nation's streams and wetlands that provide drinking water to 1 in 3 Americans and are currently vulnerable to pollution and destruction. She will also…
Ontario on a tear with its new climate proposal
By Derek Walker Once upon a time, an international agreement forged through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) seemed the surest route to meaningful action on climate change. But the complexities of reaching common ground between nearly 200 distinct national agendas…
Clean Mountain Air Brings Clarity to Energy Debate at Vail Global Energy Forum
By Andy Darrell Last month, I attended the Vail Global Energy Forum in Colorado. Billed as a “mini- Davos ” of energy (studiously ignoring the Aspen crowd a few hours down the highway), that moniker may have felt aspirational when the conference launched three years ago. But, this year it paid…
California’s drought is real, but it’s dusted up a lot of hot air
By Ann Hayden Credit: Shutterstock Finger-pointing tends to sharpen during times of crisis. Exhibit A: California, now entering its fourth year of drought. If you’ve followed media coverage of the drought lately – which has spiraled to new heights since Gov. Jerry Brown ordered the state’s…
MONDAY: EPA ADMINISTRATOR TO DELIVER REMARKS AT NATIONAL WATER POLICY FORUM
WASHINGTON – On Monday, April 13, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy will speak at the National Water Policy Forum. She will focus on the need to protect our nation's streams and wetlands that provide drinking water to 1 in 3 Americans and are currently vulnerable to pollution and destruction.…
Cherry Blossoms: A Sure Sign of Spring and Maybe Climate Change
By Krystal Laymon When I moved to the District of Columbia last spring, I couldn’t wait for the roughly 3,750 cherry trees surrounding the Tidal Basin and many of our major national monuments to burst into bloom. Tourists and residents flock to the area every year to hurriedly snap a few photos,…