It was reported this week that a bluefin tuna just fetched a record-breaking 16.28 million yen ($175,000) at the Tokyo fish market. This is a frightening illustration of the risk faced by global bluefin tuna populations.
On Friday, President Obama announced the award of $2.3 billion for new clean energy manufacturing jobs. The White House expects the program to generate more than 17,000 new jobs.
In December I led the NRDC delegation to the Copenhagen climate summit. Many people have asked me about my experience there and what the Copenhagen Accord means for global climate change. Here are my answers.
There are a lot of chemicals on the American market.
2009 was a dismal, tragic year for Northern Rockies wolves. They lost all protections under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), were hunted for the first time in Montana and Idaho (and continue to be hunted in Idaho), and were killed by various causes in record numbers. In all, almost one third -- one third! -- of the Northern Rockies wolf population was killed in 2009.
As mentioned previously in this blog, as a condition of receiving money from the Recovery Act, all Governors had to agree to make some efficiency improvements, namely by updating their building energy codes and adjusting their utility rate structures to remove the incentive for the utility to sell more power to make more money, if they haven't done so already.
Worldwatch looks back at this year in environmental news, picking the most notable stories posted to Eye on Earth over the past 12 months.
Automakers are in a competitive race to bring more fuel-saving, low polluting choices to all consumers.
EPA continued its progress toward regulating several high-priority toxic chemicals today with an announcement that the agency is ready and willing to use its authority to restrict or even ban chemicals that pose the greatest health risk to consumers and the public.
Here’s what the Agency announced:
Today, NRDC released an assessment of President Obama’s environmental record in his first year in office. One of the issues where he has made progress is in reviving our threatened oceans.
I’d like to highlight for you two aspects of the President’s first year that I think are particularly significant for oceans.
