Consumers Deserve To Know What's In Their Products
By Alissa Sasso This installment of our Pillars of Leadership series explores Informed Consumers. Sharing ingredient information with consumers is key to business leadership on chemicals. It can build consumer confidence, trust, loyalty – and market advantage. Numerous surveys (see here and here…
Opportunities for Streamlined, Cost-Effective, and Legally Durable Implementation of the Clean Power Plan
By Tomas Carbonell This post was co-written by EDF's Peter Zalzal The U.S. is poised to take an historic step this summer. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will finalize the Clean Power Plan , which will create our nation’s first-ever standards for carbon pollution from…
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: When Oil Giants Shift to Natural Gas
By Ben Ratner Pump jacks lined up in Oklahoma. (Credit: Kool Kats ) Six large European oil and gas companies recently announced a commitment to engage on climate policy, calling for a price on carbon. The now-emerging picture of their coordinated corporate talking points, however, leaves no doubt…
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: June 9, 2015
Project helps grow new marsh By Meredith Burns, Houma Courier. June 8, 2015 " Since the project was completed in late 2010, the contained area has filled in with marsh grass, and acres of material have expanded beyond the contained system where it continues to grow. The new marsh will help…
Cracking the Code on California’s Clean Tech Leadership
By EDF Blogs By: Katie Hsia-Kiung It may be hard to believe that just 15 years ago the term “clean tech” was largely unheard of. Today, the term has gained widespread usage, and is often applied to a diverse array of businesses, practices, and tools. Clean tech not only includes renewable…
Clean Power Plan Wins a Round in Court
June 9, 2015
Clean Jobs Legislation Maintains Momentum in Illinois
By Dick Munson At the start of the 2015 Illinois legislative session, a diverse coalition came together to introduce and support the Illinois Clean Jobs bill – legislation which would strengthen Illinois’ energy efficiency policies, as well as update and extend the state’s Renewable Portfolio…
EPA Looks at Fracking Risks to Water: No Data, No Problem?
By Mark Brownstein The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its long-awaited draft report on impacts associated with hydraulic fracturing on drinking water last week, completing the most extensive scientific review of published data to date. At nearly 1,000 pages, it’s a substantial…
Cracking the Code on California’s Clean Tech Leadership
By Katie Hsia-Kiung It may be hard to believe that just 15 years ago the term “clean tech” was largely unheard of. Today, the term has gained widespread usage, and is often applied to a diverse array of businesses, practices, and tools. Clean tech not only includes renewable energy technologies…
Hometown Emergency as Youth Spurs EPA Career in Heartland Ag Outreach
By Kris Lancaster “Go get your grandmother!” my uncle shouted as a deadly white cloud of anhydrous ammonia drifted menacingly above my hometown of Memphis, Mo., in 1970, where I worked as a teenager at my family’s agribusiness. I vividly remember my uncle’s face 45 years later, and the…
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: June 8, 2015
Coastal work moves forward in Terrebonne, Lafourche * features Simone Maloz, ROR By Meredith Burns, Houma Courier. June 8, 2015 " This year’s plan is pretty good,” said Simone Maloz, executive director of Restore or Retreat, a local coastal advocacy group. “Not only is it ambitious,…
Corporate Giants Use their Power to Protect North Carolina’s Renewable Portfolio Standard
By Greg Andeck Pop quiz: What do current and former executives at Apple, Facebook, Google, Bank of America, and Duke Energy have in common? Answer: They all believe in expanding renewable energy in North Carolina, where the legislature proposes to gut the clean energy policies that have made the…
10 years post Katrina – Where have you gone, Mr. Go?
By Amanda Moore, Deputy Director, National Wildlife Federation, Restore the Mississippi River Delta Coalition Over the coming months as we approach the 10 th anniversaries of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Restore the Mississippi River Delta Coalition will publish a series of blog posts that…
Clean Energy Conference Roundup: June 2015
By Erica Fick Each month, the Energy Exchange rounds up a list of top clean energy conferences around the country. Our list includes conferences at which experts from the EDF Clean Energy Program will be speaking, plus additional events that we think our readers may benefit from marking on their…
This Week in EPA Science
By Kacey Fitzpatrick Today isn’t just National Doughnut Day—it’s also World Environment Day! The United Nations Environment Programme created World Environment Day to raise global awareness to take positive environmental action to protect nature and the planet Earth. Need a quick way to do…
How to Ensure New Natural Gas Infrastructure Doesn’t Lock Out Renewables
By N. Jonathan Peress In an ideal world, our electricity system would run on 100 percent clean, renewable energy. Moving toward that goal means transitioning away from a system of centralized, fossil fuel power plants, to an intelligent, efficient, networked energy grid that smoothly integrates…
The Importance of Snowpack
By Mike Kolian In the United States, changes in snowpack currently represent one of the best documented hydrological signs of climate change. Snowpack is a key indicator and plays a vitally important role both in the environment and to society. Snowpack accounts for a majority of water supply in…
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: June 5, 2015
New Orleans faces a terrifying future as sea levels rise By Chris Matthews, Fortune. June 4, 2015 "Flood risk will grow more severe as rising sea levels and sinking coastal land produce a local increase of at least four feet by the end of the century. And then there’s the inevitable increase…
EPA Awards Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Shoreline Cities Grants to Northern Ohio
EUCLID, OHIO -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Shoreline Cities grants totaling more than $500,000 to three cities in northern Ohio to fund green infrastructure projects that will improve water quality in Lake Erie. Euclid, Mentor and…
EPA Awards Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Shoreline Cities Grants to Illinois, Indiana and Michigan
CHICAGO -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Shoreline Cities grants totaling more than $430,000 to four cities in Illinois, Indiana and Michigan to fund green infrastructure projects that will improve water quality in Lake Michigan