Posted by Lisa Speer in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today proposed the first of what we hope will be a long string of reforms aimed at strengthening the regulations of oil industry operations and curtailing the industry’s cozy relationship with the federal government agency responsible...
Posted by Lisa Speer in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
When an oil spill happens, the first thing many people think of are the beaches, wetlands, birds and other life along the shore. And the impacts of oil on that life can be huge and devastating. While dispersing the oil...
Posted by Lisa Speer in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
NRDC President Frances Beinecke and I did a press conference at the United Nations yesterday with HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco and others to highlight the impacts of global warming on the Arctic and the urgent need to both...
Posted by Lisa Speer in Reviving the World's Oceans
Today is World Oceans Day - and in Washington, the U.S. Senate is in the midst of deciding whether or not to sign on to the United Nations Law of the Sea treaty, which would expand protections for our planet's...
Posted by Lisa Speer in Reviving the World's Oceans , Solving Global Warming
As I type, NRDC Global Leadership Council member Larry Lunt and Belgian explorer Alain Hubert, co-founder of the International Polar Foundation, are trekking across Greenland's Humboldt Glacier, getting a firsthand glimpse of the area of the world showing the most...
