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Locking Horns

October 8, 2015 DispatchAfricaAustin Merrill

As poaching pushes the rhino toward extinction, South Africa considers a radical solution: Legalize the very thing that is killing them. It'd make some people very rich. But would it doom the species?

The Point of No Return

October 8, 2015 Latest NewsUnited StatesChelsey B. Coombs

A new study shows cacti face high extinction threats, a fact that should poke us into action.

Heat Exchange

October 8, 2015 Latest NewsIndiaBrian Palmer

An Indian public-health official thinks the United States could learn a thing or two from her country about dealing with climate change (and vice versa).

Michigan Governor Recommends Flint Reconnect to Detroit Water To End Lead Contamination Crisis

October 8, 2015 Press Release

CHICAGO – In the wake of Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s recommendation that the City of Flint reconnect to the Detroit water system to stem its lead-contamination woes, leaders from the ACLU of Michigan and the Natural Resources Defense Council today…

Governor Brown Signs Pathbreaking Climate and Clean Energy Legislation

October 7, 2015 Expert BlogAnnie Notthoff

California Governor Signs Historic Clean Energy Legislation

October 7, 2015 Press ReleaseCalifornia

SACRAMENTO (October 7, 2015) – California Governor Jerry Brown today signed a landmark law cementing California’s climate leadership into the next decade. Senate Bill 350 (de León and Leno) sets the most aggressive combined clean energy targets in the world…

A Letter from the Future on Climate Change

October 6, 2015 Expert BlogShelley Poticha

HFC Super-Pollutants: NRDC Petitions EPA to "SNAP" Away Powerful Heat-Trapping Chemicals

October 6, 2015 Expert BlogDavid Doniger

With the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development, we filed a petition with the EPA to end certain uses of the super greenhouse gas known as hydrofluorocarbons.

Let's Be Honest About Environmental Safeguards

October 6, 2015 Expert BlogJon Devine

Poisoning People, the Future and the Public Interest in Flint, Michigan

October 6, 2015 Expert BlogHenry Henderson

Bird Men

October 6, 2015 DispatchMidwestSusan Cosier

Thanks to falconers, endangered peregrines are flourishing in Midwestern cities.

Court Rules that EPA Failed to Protect U.S. Waters from Aquatic Invasive Species

October 6, 2015 Press Release

ANN ARBOR, MICH. (October 5, 2015) – In a unanimous 3-0 decision that has ramifications for waters across the country—from Long Island Sound to the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico to San Francisco Bay—the U.S. Court of Appeals…

Cuomo Tells Students and The World: New York Must Lead On Clean Energy

October 5, 2015 Expert BlogKit Kennedy

As climate pledge deadline expires, where does Latin America stand?

October 5, 2015 Expert BlogMaria Martinez

Mending Our Ways: A Conversation on the Environmental Impacts of the Fashion Industry

October 5, 2015 Expert BlogInternationalSusan Egan Keane