Strong Fuel Efficiency and Clean Air Standards Welcome in Texas
By Christina Wolfe Strong fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas standards will save money and cut pollution. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) are proposing new fuel efficiency and greenhouse…
Appeals Court Keeps the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule in Place, Directs EPA to Conduct Additional Analyses
July 28, 2015
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: July 28, 2015
A tempting target: Louisiana stands to gain substantial funds for coastal projects, but the governor’s new coastal director warns against diverting those funds to other uses By Amy Wold, The Advocate. July 28, 2015 " Coastal protection and restoration must be a centerpiece of any platform for…
Cooking Up Solutions to Climate Change
By Natalie Liller June 15-19th, 2015 marked EPA’s 5th annual Science of Climate Change Workshop—and even more importantly, it summoned the latest group of talented high-school-aged students to learn about the science behind taking action on climate change. This year, the program focused on…
Excavation Experts: Are Moles or Voles Ruining your Lawn? (Part 1)
By Marcia Anderson It’s Summertime! Time to get outside and enjoy the great outdoors. Imagine you are strolling across your lawn on a beautiful day assessing your maintenance routines, when you notice something amiss. It appears as if someone – something! – has created a maze of tunnels under…
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: July 27, 2015
Learn La. governor candidates’ views on coast during public forum at Nicholls *features Jimmy Frederick, CRCL & Simone Maloz, ROR By Meredith Burns, Houma Courier. July 26, 2015 " This forum will hopefully underscore for all the candidates what a priority coastal protection and…
This Week in EPA Science
By Kacey Fitzpatrick The dog days of summer are upon us. Need a break from the heat? Check out some of our cool EPA science! Here’s what we are highlighting this week. A Small Program with a Big Mission EPA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) team recently attended the 2015 National…
Reunión de la CCA es una victoria para la salud pública en Norteamérica
Por Gina McCarthy Administradora de la EPA La semana pasada, tuve el placer de servir de anfitriona para la ministra del Medio Ambiente de Canadá y el subsecretario del Medio Ambiente de México en la vigésimo segunda ordinaria del Consejo de la Comisión de Cooperación Ambiental (CCA) en mi…
Sizing Up EPA’s New Voluntary Methane Reduction Program
By Mark Brownstein The U.S. oil and gas industry released more than 7.3 million metric tons of methane into the atmosphere in 2013, a three percent increase over 2012 – that’s an amount of gas worth nearly $2 billion, and enough to supply about 6 million American homes. The sector is the…
TURF Tools: Exploring tools to help restore small-scale fisheries
By Guest Author Photo: Kaia Joye Moyer By: Kaia Joye Moyer, Masters Student at UC Santa Barbara’s Bren School of Environmental Science and Management It is 5am. The sun is just rising, but Hermes Arandas, a fisher from Totolan, Dauis, Bohol in the Philippines, is anything but just waking up.…
Talking Clean Water With My Kids … on Vacation (Yeah, They Loved It)
By Jeffery Robichaud A couple of years ago, I wrote that we took a staycation and probably would not be able to get away with that again. I was right. We visited my folks in North Carolina this year, but at least we got a place within walking distance from the beach. So even though(...)
County Health Rankings: A Breath of Fresh Air
By Donald F. Schwarz Air pollution has long moved on from being a concern reserved for proactive environmentalists. Today, it has become a more visible personal health issue for millions of families and a major and growing public health concern for communities who live in close proximity to…
Welcome to the Weekend!
Looking for more ways to appreciate the summer around NYC? Our ‘Welcome to the Weekend’ summer series brings you a variety of green, fun, and free/affordable activities to do this weekend. We hope you will join some of them, and that you’ll let us know about other events not on our list. As…
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: July 23, 2015
What Do Mayors from Tehran and New Orleans Have in Common? Climate Change. By Natasha Geiling, Think Progress. July 22, 2015 " To combat the dangers of rising sea level and associated storm surge, New Orleans fortified its perimeter protections — levees, storm surge barriers, and dikes — in…
CEC Meeting a Win for Public Health in North America
Last week, I was thrilled to host the Canadian Environment Minister and Mexican Environment Deputy Secretary at the 22nd Regular Session of the Council for the Commission on Environmental Cooperation (CEC) in my hometown of Boston. The CEC is an organization created by the United States, Canada and…
Vital Signs of the Planet: Sea Level
NASA reports on the effects of climate change: Sea Level LATEST MEASUREMENT: March 2015 64.4 mm Sea level rise is caused primarily by two factors related to global warming: the added water from melting land ice and the expansion of sea water as it warms. The first chart tracks the change in sea…
New chemical reforms are vital to TSCA legislation, says former top official for EPA toxics office
By Richard Denison Richard Denison, Ph.D. , is a Lead Senior Scientist . In an op-ed published in today’s Roll Call , Dr. Lynn Goldman, Dean of the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University, makes the case for why TSCA reform legislation needs to include…
Technology Innovation for a Sustainable Water Future
By Jeff Lape This week, I visited the City of Gresham, Oregon’s wastewater treatment plant. This year the plant became the second facility in the country this year and the first in the Pacific Northwest to generate more energy than it needs to treat its water. Gresham has joined the growing…
Experience history and nature on rail-trails
by Virginia Thompson My husband is a huge fan of biking on rail-trails created by the conversion of unused railroad rights-of-way. Within the past year alone, he has ridden on many trails in the Philadelphia suburbs, as well as throughout the Mid-Atlantic states. On a recent trip, we rode on two…
Oklahoma Court Rejects Yet Another Flawed Challenge to the Proposed Clean Power Plan
By Peter Zalzal The Clean Power Plan has now won a second round in court – before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finished writing it. The federal district court for the Northern District of Oklahoma rejected another premature challenge on Friday to the proposed standards for…
