I spend a lot of my working hours fighting to pass clean energy and climate legislation that will reduce America’s global warming pollution. But I also take steps in my personal life to cut down my own carbon emissions.
I stopped eating red meat and stick with vegetarian options most of the week, I installed compact florescent light bulbs, I signed up for renewable power through my utility Con Edison, and I take public transit to work.
What good do individual efforts like these achieve in the face of the...
Last week, NRDC Executive Director Peter Lehner presented the “Behavioral Wedge” at the first-ever Garrison Institute Climate, Mind and Behavior Symposium. A joint NRDC-Garrison Institute project, the wedge identified one billion tons worth of annual U.S. greenhouse gas reductions possible through simple and inexpensive personal actions. One billion tons, or one gigaton (Gt), is one-...
In 2002 the Bush administration created a loophole to the Clean Water Act that allows mining companies to dump untreated mining wastes in America's lakes and streams.
From mountaintop removal coal mines in Appalachia to gold mines in Alaska, untreated waste is destroying our waterways with tons of dumped material and threatening our communities with heavy metals and other toxins.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to close the waste loophole in the Clean Water Act, but in order to ensure...
In a News 10 Living Green story, Frances Beinecke explained the difference between the myth of ‘clean coal’ and the reality of carbon capture and storage... The National Journal quoted...
Fear. That’s the only way to describe the emotion that quickly flashed through my mind when we spotted our first gray whale. We were flying over Laguna San Ignacio on approach to the camp and suddenly there it was. I only had a fleeting glimpse but it was vast. Unbelievably huge.
Scary. But then we spotted a baby. Again only the most fleeting of glances from high above the lagoon but suddenly the fear turned to awe. I don...
