Climate change is often a subtle devil. While in 2011 we witnessed $35 billion in insured losses from climate change-fueled extreme weather, many of the other impacts progress incrementally each … Read more
Clean Air Act
NWF Voices Testify in Support of EPA Carbon Pollution Limits
Today, over 20 National Wildlife Federation representatives from 13 states and numerous local supporters testified in Washington, DC, and Chicago, IL, in support of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed carbon … Read more
Guest Post: Pennsylvanians Don’t Have a Friend in Senator Toomey
Ed Perry is an aquatic biologist who retired in 2002 after a 30-year career with the US Fish and Wildlife Service, where he supervised the section responsible for protecting streams … Read more
Protecting Polar Bears for Kay’s Future
The hand-written letter was from an 8-year-old 2nd grader. I’ll call her Kay. She told me that she saw my YouTube video about the problems global warming is causing for polar bears. She … Read more
Houston Toads: New Victims of Climate Change
Climate change isn’t just making the mercury rise; it is causing a lot of other problems, including extreme droughts and wildfires. These accelerating global warming impacts are very troubling for the Houston toad, and … Read more
Inhofe Seeks to Throw Mercury Protections Overboard
Late last week, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) introduced S.J. Res. 37 – a congressional resolution seeking to disapprove and throw out the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new air pollution standards … Read more
