When we waste food, we not only add organic materials to landfills (where they generate methane, a powerful global warming pollutant), but we also waste all the water, land, energy, money, labor, and other resources that go into growing, processing…
WASHINGTON - Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross reportedly has submitted an analysis to White House officials on the potential for oil and gas development in some of the nation’s most cherished and protected publicly owned waters. The move comes after extensive…
Politicians running the Federal Highway Administration want to keep us in the dark by rolling back the rule that requires transportation plans to account for the carbon pollution that damages our health and our climate.
Forty percent of food in this country is never eaten—wasting massive amounts of water, energy, land and other resources—yet 41 million people don’t have enough. And that makes no sense.
Over the past quarter century, standards for plumbing fixtures and appliances such as shower heads, washing machines, and toilets, have saved taxpayers billions of dollars while protecting water resources across the country—and they’re still working today.
All too much food goes to waste these days. At the same time, low income individuals in the U.S. lacked the resources to afford more than 7 billion meals last year—a huge gap that affects the health and well-being of…
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has just signed into law legislation that gives the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) the power to prevent the siting of anchorages in the Hudson River. This bipartisan legislation is a major…
SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco will now require large chain grocers to provide information about the antibiotic use associated with each line of raw meat sold in their stores. The “Right to Know” ordinance, authored by Supervisor Jeff Sheehy, seeks…
Carbon dioxide and other climate-wrecking pollutants are warming the planet to stressful new highs, and many of the crops on which we depend are suffering as a result.
WASHINGTON D.C. (October 24, 2017) – Nearly two-thirds of Americans are now facing increased extreme heat days, according to a new analysis by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
The Department of Energy (DOE) recently proposed that American consumers further subsidize certain power plants (essentially, coal and nuclear power plants) by paying them billions of dollars to stockpile 90 days worth of fuel onsite. This proposal hinges on the…
EPA oversight and regulation of toxic chemicals has slackened since Nancy Beck, a recent chemical industry executive, took charge, and the New York Times has amassed alarming evidence of this in a story by Eric Lipton.
