One of the least energy efficient products in modern history, the incandescent light bulb dating back to the days of Thomas Edison, is about to be permanently retired in California as of Jan. 1, 2018, and in 2020 for the…
For California to support a growing economy with reliable supplies of drinking water, it is critical that all new urban landscapes be designed and installed to be water-efficient, as well as attractive.
Today, NRDC went to court to block the Trump administration’s latest hand-out to the oil and gas industry—a rollback of protections against waste and harmful air pollution on America’s public lands, at the expense of communities and taxpayers.
This year has seen a barrage of attempts by the Trump administration to roll back efficiency standards and make it a lot harder to improve them in the future. Just last week, the administration indefinitely deferred action on 20 appliance…
This has been a productive year for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), which in August agreed to slash carbon pollution at least 30 percent further from Northeast and Mid-Atlantic power plants.
A coalition of conservation and tribal citizen groups today filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California challenging the Trump Administration’s suspension of the Bureau of Land Management’s Waste Prevention Rule and seeking to…
As Trump’s EPA delays enforcement on air pollution violations in Chicago’s Southeast Side, community and environmental groups have penned a letter urging Mayor Rahm Emanuel to step in to protect residents from neurotoxic manganese near neighborhoods and schools. The letter also calls on…
Today, on behalf of the Natural Resources Defense Council, I wrote the National Marine Fisheries Service to let them know that if they didn’t take final action on our request that they list the Gulf of Mexico Bryde’s whale (Balaenoptera…
