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Natural Resources Defense Council

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2012

    Fight Against BPA in Food Packaging Takes a Hit

    The fight to get bisphenol A (BPA) out of our kitchens took a hit on Friday, when the Food and Drug Administration declined to ban the controversial chemical from food packaging. The FDA rejected a petition from the environmental group Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), but also said it will ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2012

    Campbell's to Phase Out BPA in Cans

    Campbell's Soup Co. has announced that it soon will stop using the notorious chemical bisphenol-A, or BPA, in the linings of its cans, the Environmental Working Group reports. The move comes as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is poised to decide by March 31 whether to ban the chemical's use in ... More >>

  • News

    February 23, 2012

    What's in Pepper Spray?

    In California, the toxin TCE

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2011

    Beaches in L.A. Moving Inland: Rising Seas Via Global Warming Mean Drinking Water Problems

    Kim Davies​Why go to the beach when the beach will come to you? Literally. Slowly: A fraction of an inch at a time. A new report says that by the mid point of this decade sea level will be a foot and a half higher. That, in our view, could be devastating to the way-too-close-to-the-beach deve ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2011

    Groups Sue FDA Over Antibiotics in Animal Feed

    Flickr/delgaudm​ A coalition of consumer groups filed a federal lawsuit May 20 against the Food and Drug Administration, saying that the use of human antibiotics in farm feed creates dangerous "superbugs," Agence France-Presse reports. The suit alleges that the FDA has known since 1977 that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2011

    Incandescent Light Bulb, You Were 100 Watts of Wonderful: A California Eulogy

    Appliance.netEdison vs. the environment​If Thomas Edison were alive today, he'd surely shed a tear. January 1 marked the beginning of a sad, slow death for the brightest household light bulb known to man -- and we're not about to let it fade from our lives without a fair memorial. Though he's ... More >>

  • LA Life

    June 10, 2010

    Malibu's Mayor Makes Waves

    Jefferson (Zuma Jay) Wagner's ripple effect

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2009

    NRDC Sues U.S. Over Clean Trucks Program

    The Santa Monica-based Natural Resources Defense Council has sued the Federal Maritime Trucks Entering L.A. HarborCommission to learn why the government agency tried to block implementation of parts of the Clean Trucks Program that the L.A. and Long Beach ports are trying to enforce. The NRDC had fi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2009

    A Tale of Two SoCal Makeovers

    Curbed L.A. does a double-take on the corner of Cahuenga Boulevard and Fountain Avenue, with Now You See It/Now You Don't pictures. (See photos above.) The first photograph shows obsolete, Spanish Revival bungalows from the 1920s occupying the spot in November. The second image depicts the same spot ... More >>

  • News

    September 27, 2007

    Blue Whale Requiem

    Mystery reigns as sonar tests pit military training against beloved Southland pods

  • News

    November 9, 2006

    The Lost Streams of Los Angeles

    Uncovering our wet and wild past. Is it safe, or even possible, to let the water flow again?

  • News

    August 17, 2006

    The Story of O

    How much difference can a pot of money make in the fight against urban runoff?

  • News

    August 10, 2006

    Beaches of Shame

    Why can’t we keep our oceans clean?

  • News

    July 6, 2006

    I'll Believe It When I Breathe It

    Residents question ports’ clean-air plan

  • News

    December 15, 2005

    The Greening of Ships

    Can California stop air pollution out at sea?

  • Columns

    November 24, 2005

    Think Globally, Act Santa Monically

    One city’s attempt to cool down global warming

  • News

    November 24, 2005

    This Land Is My Land

    Has the Endangered Species Act put wildlife above people?

  • News

    October 13, 2005

    Letters

    Has the Endangered Species Act put wildlife above people?

  • News

    September 22, 2005

    Ports of Cough

    What it will take to clean up the mess caused by ships and trucks

  • News

    September 22, 2005

    The Air That We Breathe

    Just when it looked like we might win the war on smog, a new and more deadly form of air pollution stalks Los Angeles

  • News

    September 22, 2005

    Outing Polluters

    Just when it looked like we might win the war on smog, a new and more deadly form of air pollution stalks Los Angeles

  • News

    September 22, 2005

    Pacoima’s Lot

    A deindustrialized L.A. imports its smog

  • News

    September 22, 2005

    Reforming the Environmentalists

    How the Sierra Club and other groups can help clean the air

  • News

    May 12, 2005

    Clean Air vs. Cancer

    A federal judge re-affirms California's authority to fight pollution

  • News

    April 28, 2005

    Go Vertical, Young Green

    How apartment living is good for the environment

  • News

    February 10, 2005

    Lost in the Smog

    Environmentalists say the energy industry helped write Clear Skies. Yeah? So what else is new?

  • News

    October 21, 2004

    The Great Wet Hope

    Will Measure O remake Los Angeles? Only if voters know it exists

  • News

    August 5, 2004

    Arnold’s State Control

    Top-heavy plan to reshape government likely to bottom out

  • LA Life

    June 10, 2004

    Brave New Cityscape

    Top-heavy plan to reshape government likely to bottom out

  • News

    March 4, 2004

    Lord of the Race

    Serving on two powerful air-quality boards., L.A. Marathon founder William Burke sets a fast pace. But it just might be when he crosses the finish line, the public — and clean air — are the big losers.

  • News

    July 24, 2003

    A Chokehold on the Future

    Hopes for cleaner air disappear into the haze

  • News

    July 10, 2003

    Better Than Bush

    But which Dem is green enough for California?

  • News

    June 26, 2003

    Beaching the Cleanup Plan

    How a one-man crusade to overturn pollution controls became a $1 million legal fight

  • News

    April 3, 2003

    Larry on Laurie

    Or, the perils of being married to an environmentalist

  • News

    April 3, 2003

    Curb Your SUV

    Laurie David put celebrity activism in the driver's seat

  • News

    March 27, 2003

    Port in a Storm

    Dealing with the polluting ways of world trade

  • News

    March 20, 2003

    Ports of Cash

    Out-of-court settlement could force shakeup at Port of Los Angeles

  • News

    January 23, 2003

    A Draining Problem

    Cleaning up the ocean pits environmentalists against local cities

  • News

    November 28, 2002

    The Gods of Small Things

    The Center for Biological Diversity cares as much about the unarmored threespine stickleback as it does a cathedral forest of trees, which is why it is reinventing the environmental movement and could be saving Southern California in the process.

  • News

    November 21, 2002

    Paradise Lost — Again

    The Bush plan for the environment

  • News

    September 5, 2002

    Burned Again

    Bush's forestry plan courts its own disaster

  • Columns

    June 27, 2002

    Little Caesars

    Bush's forestry plan courts its own disaster

  • Columns

    April 18, 2002

    Urban Naturalist: The $5.5 Billion Bird

    Bush's forestry plan courts its own disaster

  • News

    August 16, 2001

    Eight Excellent Reasons Not To Cheat on Your Taxes

    Bush's forestry plan courts its own disaster

  • News

    April 26, 2001

    Kiddie Diesel

    A cut-rate, questionable cure for school-bus pollution

  • News

    March 29, 2001

    Take Me to the River

    L.A.’s hopes for a new park

  • News

    February 8, 2001

    Cross of Gold

    The California Air Resources Board swivels in the battle of the standards

  • News

    October 12, 2000

    Power Play

    South Gate is already one of the most polluted cities in California. Does it really need a massive new electric plant?

  • News

    May 13, 1999

    The War at Home

    Local Progressives Talk About Kosovo

  • News

    September 24, 1998

    Clean Air Takes Back Seat

    Local Progressives Talk About Kosovo

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