Posted January 1, 2012 by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Happy New Year everyone! To start 2012 off right, here are some good news stories from the last month of 2011. Four Pacific fishers have been released into the northern Sierra Nevada mountains. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, "the four...continued→
Posted December 29, 2011 by Zak Smith in Reviving the World's Oceans, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
News in the world of whales this week (or close to it). Happy Birthday Endangered Species Act!!! Thirty-eight years ago, President Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act and it’s been under attack ever since. NRDC has been fighting anti-environmental...continued→
Posted December 29, 2011 by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz in Moving Beyond Oil, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, Solving Global Warming
The current threat from Iran to block oil movements through the Strait of Hormuz has some Republicans calling for approval of the Keystone XL pipeline that would bring tar sands oil from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast refineries. Energy...continued→
Posted December 23, 2011 by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz in Curbing Pollution, Moving Beyond Oil, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, Solving Global Warming
Updated as of December 26 On December 23, the House passed a "tax holiday" extension package that contains an unrelated provision to speed up a decision on the dirty energy Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. How does this help fight climate change?...continued→
Posted December 22, 2011 by Zak Smith in Reviving the World's Oceans, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
News in the world of whales this week (or close to it). More than 100 beluga whales are trapped in ice floes in Russia’s far north-east. The whales face exhaustion and death if a channel doesn’t open up that will...continued→
Posted December 22, 2011 by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, U.S. Law and Policy
Yesterday was a good day for wolves and for national wolf conservation policy. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it was removing gray wolf populations in the upper Midwest from the federal list of endangered and threatened...continued→
Posted December 20, 2011 by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
In some good news out of Washington (for a change), the recent appropriations bill that was passed last week contains $4 million in funding for addressing white-nose syndrome – the deadly fungal disease that has been devastating bats in the...continued→
Posted December 19, 2011 by Mark Izeman in Green Enterprise, Living Sustainably, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, Solving Global Warming
You think buying gifts for one night is difficult? Try finding 8 gifts for each of the 8 nights of Hanukkah. If you have two children, like I do, that’s 16, plus all of the other family gifts...continued→
Posted December 18, 2011 by Frances Beinecke in Moving Beyond Oil, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
At the insistence of Republican lawmakers, the tax bill moving through Congress includes a provision requiring President Obama to make a fast-track decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline in 60 days. This is political opportunism at its most...continued→
Posted December 18, 2011 by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz in Curbing Pollution, Moving Beyond Oil, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, Solving Global Warming
Legislation headed to the House this week gives President Obama 60 days to decide whether to approve construction of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, which would carry the dirtiest oil on the planet mined and drilled from under...continued→
