Unacceptable Levels – Pollution just got personal: a new movie
Jennifer Sass, Senior Scientist, Washington, D.C.
Pollution isn’t just what you can see littered in the ditches by the side of the ...
Unacceptable Levels – Pollution just got personal: a new movie
Jennifer Sass, Senior Scientist, Washington, D.C.
Pollution isn’t just what you can see littered in the ditches by the side of the ...
We have the right to know what is in the air we breathe – A guest blog from Dominic Pierceall
Diane Bailey, Senior Scientist, San Francisco
This past semester I had the good fortune of working with a group of students through a “Service ...
Sailors and Sea Stewards (guest blog post by Megan Hayes)
Karen Garrison, Co-Director, Oceans Program, San Francisco
Megan Hayes is a Stanback summer Intern for NRDC’s Oceans Program in San ...
Two Top-Level “Post-2015″ Reports to the UN Call for “Transformations” to Curb Climate Change and Secure a Sustainable Future
Jacob Scherr, Director, Global Strategy & Advocacy, Washington, DC
This last weekend, hundreds of diplomats and others flew home from Bonn ...
In Praise of the 9-0 Supreme Court Loss: LA Port’s Clean Trucks Program lives on
If you’re an environmental group and you find yourself in front of today’s Supreme Court, in some sense you’ve already lost. Nothwithstanding the 2007
Mass v EPA victory ...
Oil Companies Bet on Tar Sands, Against California Neighbors
Brant Olson, Campaign Manager, San Francisco
Oil's Rail Wager
A series of rail terminals proposed by California's biggest oil refiners ...
Brewers Demand Action for Clean Water
Karen Hobbs, Senior Policy Analyst, Chicago
Earlier today, 20 members of NRDC's Brewers for Clean Water campaign sent a letter to America's ...
Midwest Governors on Separation of Watersheds: A Closer Look at What’s at Stake
Meleah Geertsma, Staff Attorney, Midwest Program, Chicago, IL
Two important messages on aquatic invasive species came out of the recent ...
Sometimes It Isn’t The Perfect Versus The Good — A TSCA Lesson For Coal Ash
Scott Slesinger, Legislative Director, Washington, DC
This isn’t the first time an environmental bill was written to sound like it ...
GreenScreen™ hazard assessment of silver and nanosilver demonstrates what we know, what we don’t, and what we’d like to know before we get too cozy with nanomaterials
Jennifer Sass, Senior Scientist, Washington, D.C.
Although there have been numerous published reports and reviews of the hazards of nanosilver ...
Another Broken Promise by EPA to Reduce Water Pollution
Jon Devine, Senior Attorney, Washington, D.C.
It’s raining today in the DC area, which makes me think about water ...
Which City Has the Best Parks? Trust for Public Lands Releases Annual ParkScore Ranking.
Waterfront Park, Portland, OR
The Trust for Public Land (TPL) recently released its annual ParkScore index, which ranks the park systems of the fifty largest U.S. cities. As with ...
The “New Bioeconomy”: Synthetic Biology’s Implications for the Environment, Health and Justice
Jennifer Sass, Senior Scientist, Washington, D.C.
For this blog, I’m highlighting two expert colleagues with presentations on the ...
Federal court says highway sponsors must first study transit, impacts on suburban sprawl
Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
It is just an interim ruling, but it is potentially an important ...
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