By Nicole Leonard To close out 2019, we wanted to do something special. It’s not just the end of the year — it’s the end of an incredible decade of climate activism and a transition to the next. The challenge ahead is enormous, but if this year has taught us anything, it’s that more of […]
By Jennifer Molidor, PhD Climate change, habitat loss and pollution are overwhelming our planet. Thankfully, these enormous threats are being met by a bold new wave of environmental activism. But there’s one place where our movement hasn’t brought mass extinction and the climate crisis to the table: The literal tables at environmental events — from […]
By Joe Vukovich Under the guise of responding to consumer complaints that today’s energy- and water-efficient dishwashers take too long, the Department of Energy has proposed creating a new class of dishwashers that wouldn’t be subject to any water or energy efficiency standards at all. The move would not only undermine three decades of progress […]
By Carlo Ratti, Ida Auken On the window of a bike shop in Copenhagen, a sign reads: Your next car is a bike. More than 62 percent of Copenhageners cycle to work in one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world, and the municipality is actively investing in new bike lanes and green light […]
Perchlorate has been shown to impair the development of fetuses and young children — and yet the FDA refuses to act. So the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is taking the agency to court. NRDC and partners took legal action to overturn the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s decision to allow the harmful chemical perchlorate […]
By Emily Petsko For many, the end of October evokes images of falling leaves or Halloween’s ghosts and ghouls. But those of us focused on oceans also know October as National Seafood Month. Oceana works to save the oceans and feed the world, and we can’t do that without sustainable seafood. We help our oceans […]
By Gretchen Goldman The Independent Particulate Matter Review Panel has released their consensus recommendations to the EPA administrator on the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter. The group of 20 independent experts, that were disbanded by Administrator Wheeler last October and reconvened last week, hosted by the Union of Concerned Scientists, has now […]
By David R. Montgomery Would it sound too good to be true if I was to say that there was a simple, profitable and underused agricultural method to help feed everybody, cool the planet, and revitalize rural America? I used to think so, until I started visiting farmers who are restoring fertility to their land, […]
By Daniel Macfarlane Every fall, I take my environmental studies class camping at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore on Lake Michigan. Some years the beach extends more than three meters to the water. This year, in many spots, there was no beach at all. The story is the same throughout the Great Lakes. During my […]
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