Did you know ninety percent of beer is actually water? That means clean water is essential to great-tasting beer. Even more, it's critical for public health and the health of a wide range of industries. That's why NRDC is teaming up with craft brewing companies to stand up for clean water and to enforce the Clean Water Act. Learn more about Brewers for Clean Water here.

Victory for Free Speech Kate Sinding, Director of NRDC's Community Fracking Defense Project

NRDC's Community Fracking Defense Project has achieved its first legal victory. The Town Board of Sanford, New York has repealed the gag order it passed last summer on discussing fracking at their meetings, following a First Amendment lawsuit filed in February by the NRDC and Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy. Read the post.

This Mother's Day, honor Mother Earth with a Green Gift!

Ask Obama: How much longer for climate action?

According to polls by NRDC and the Pew Center for the People and the Press, the majority of Americans want tough action to curb climate pollution. It’s been months since President Obama promised “we’d respond to the threat of climate change” during his State of the Union address. We can’t wait any longer. Email President Obama and ask—what's your plan for climate action?

Supermoms vs. Superbugs

When Everly Macario's 18-month old son died suddenly from an increasingly-common form of antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus, she began to look into the issue of antibiotic misuse. After forming a research group at the University of Chicago, Macario became part of an advocacy group associated with the Pew Charitable Trusts known as Supermoms Against Superbugs.

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