By Katie Hsia-Kiung A crucial feature of the U.S. EPA’s groundbreaking new Clean Power Plan for existing power plants is the flexibility with which states can pick and choose the emission reduction measures that work best for them. Instead of prescribing a silver bullet solution across all fifty…
By: Cheryl Roberto , Associate Vice President, Clean Energy For those of us (and all of you) who’ve been urging the government to implement meaningful climate policy, the release yesterday of a plan to cut carbon emissions from power plants has been a long time coming. But it finally came. The…
By EDF Blogs By Cheryl Roberto , Associate Vice President, Clean Energy Program For those of us (and all of you) who’ve been urging the government to implement meaningful climate policy, the release yesterday of a plan to cut carbon emissions from power plants has been a long time coming. But it…
June 3, 2014
By Cheryl Roberto For those of us (and all of you) who’ve been urging the government to implement meaningful climate policy, the release yesterday of a plan to cut carbon emissions from power plants has been a long time coming. But it finally came. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s …
Hurricane season is here, chat with reporter Mark Schleifstein Wednesday at 11 a.m. By Manuel Torres, The Times-Picayune. June 2, 2014. “Hurricane season began June 1 and for metro New Orleans residents that means six months of watching the weather…” ( read more )
By Ilissa Ocko A satellite image of Irene, a Category 1 hurricane, as it made landfall in North Carolina in August of 2011. Source: NASA/NOAA GOES project The hurricane season of 2014 just kicked off, and with two devastating storms wreaking havoc along the northeastern United States coast over the…
June 2, 2014
Crossposted from “EPA Connect“ It’s an important day. Today, at the direction of President Obama and after an unprecedented outreach effort, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is releasing the Clean Power Plan proposal, which for the first time cuts carbon pollution from existing power…
By Derek Walker EPA’s Clean Power Plan, proposed today , is a roadmap for cutting dangerous pollution from power plants, and as with any map, there are many roads to follow. For this journey, states are in the driver’s seat and can steer themselves in the direction most beneficial to their…
What To Do With Bayou Bienvenue? (+audio) By Laine Kaplan-Levenson, WWNO. June 2, 2014. “The Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle of today is what is called a “ghost swamp”. Until the 1960s, it was a full of cypress trees…” ( read more ) St. Bernard gets oyster reef to help protect shoreline…
By Keith Gaby Coal-fired power plants are the single largest source of carbon pollution in the United States. In the downside-up Alice in Wonderland world of Congress, we are about to begin a debate about whether unlimited pollution is a good thing. It will be triggered by the Obama…
By Amanda R. Moore, Deputy Director for the Mississippi River Delta Restoration Program Save our Wetlands – not a phrase you’d expect to find etched into a picnic table at a popular bar. But this is New Orleans. The spot where I sat was under eight feet of water a little less than nine years…
By Derek Walker EPA’s Clean Power Plan, proposed today , is a roadmap for cutting dangerous pollution from power plants, and as with any map, there are many roads to follow. For this journey, states are in the driver’s seat and can steer themselves in the direction most beneficial to their…
By Derek Walker EPA’s Clean Power Plan, proposed today , is a roadmap for cutting dangerous pollution from power plants, and as with any map, there are many roads to follow. For this journey, states are in the driver’s seat and can steer themselves in the direction most beneficial to their…
June 2, 2014
by Susan Stone Air quality in the United States has improved considerably. But, summertime air quality can still reach the unhealthy ranges of the Air Quality Index (AQI) – even in remote locations such as our beautiful national parks. Picture this: you’re camping in Great Smoky Mountains…
NASA reports: New maps of the bedrock beneath Greenland’s ice sheet (right) have found long, deep canyons that are likely to cause ocean-feeding glaciers (left) to retreat faster and farther inland than previously thought. Credit: NASA Scientists at NASA and the University of California, Irvine…
By Jessica Orquina We need your help to raise awareness about skin cancer prevention. Did you know that skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States? More than 3,500,000 new cases of skin cancer are diagnosed every year and one person dies from the disease every hour. But there…
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=2014/05/0086.xml U.S. Department of Agriculture. More than $1.5 million in funding has been allocated to expand bio-control efforts to fight Huanglongbing (HLB), also known as citrus greening . This action is the first designation of funds by…