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L.A. Takes a Fresh Look at Recycled Water

DispatchLos AngelesLauren Evans
Facing dwindling freshwater supplies, the city is ready to stop dumping millions of gallons into the Pacific—and to follow Orange County’s lead.

Pennsylvania's Gas Power Problem, Part 1: The Build-Out

Expert BlogUnited States, PennsylvaniaMark Szybist
For most of the last decade, the biggest energy story in Pennsylvania has been fracking—the use of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling to extract shale gas—and the dramatic increase in gas production that fracking has driven.

Pennsylvania's Gas Power Problem, Part II: Cost and Risk

Expert BlogMark Szybist
To avoid the worst impacts of climate change, we need to make dramatic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. Where the power sector is concerned, that means using energy much more efficiently, scaling up renewables, and putting a legally binding and…

NGOs Call for NOAA to Strengthen Seafood Import Standards

Expert BlogSandy Aylesworth
We know that some seafood is fraudulent or not what it claims to be. But did you know that up to one third of wild-caught U.S. seafood imports are harvested using illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing practices?

The Biodiversity Report: Not All Gloom and Doom

Expert BlogKatie Umekubo
Nature is in dire decline. We have read about it all week now. However, let’s not let this important take-away get lost in the shuffle: there’s still time to reverse course.

Cautious Optimism Over Canada's Big Orca Announcement

Expert BlogMichael Jasny
Today, Canada announced new measures to protect the Southern Resident orcas, one of the most endangered, and beloved, populations of whales on either side of the border. Together with the orca bills signed on Wednesday by Washington Governor Jay Inslee…

DOE's Process Rule: Wonky Changes Could Have Big Impact

Expert BlogLauren Urbanek
NRDC submitted comments this week in response to the Department of Energy’s proposed changes to its Process Rule for setting energy efficiency standards, citing several grave concerns over their divisive nature and the peril in which they would place timely…

Utilities, States, Thousands More Oppose Lighting Rollback

Expert BlogNoah Horowitz
Electric utilities across America, low-income consumer groups, national and local environmental organizations, 24 governors, 17 state attorneys general, almost 18,000 individual letter-writers, and the American Chemical Society all sent in letters urging the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to abandon…

When Your Planet Calls 911

Latest NewsUnited StatesJeff Turrentine
The systems that allow life on earth to exist are breaking down. We’re responsible. But we also have the power to turn things around.

Canada's Recovery Measures for Endangered Killer Whales a Positive Step

Press ReleaseCanada
A coalition of six conservation groups commend the federal government’s new measures to support Southern Resident killer whale recovery. The measures are the boldest yet; greater whale-watching restrictions, expanded voluntary slow downs for international shipping and the creation of no-vessel…