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Battling Urgent Threats
We combine the expertise of nearly 500 scientists, lawyers, and advocates with the power of more than two million activists to confront our planet's most pressing problems.
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This Is How We Can Avoid Climate Catastrophe
A new action plan shows how we can cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050.
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Our Public Lands and Waters Belong to You and Me
For the first time in America’s history, many of our national monuments are at risk for industrial exploitation.
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Fighting the Trump Agenda: A Step-by-Step Guide
Tracking Trump's attacks on the environment and how you can help NRDC stop him.
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Is America Actually Out of the Paris Agreement?
The agreement’s authors built in a time line for withdrawal that President Trump will have to follow—slowing him down from irreparably damaging our climate.
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Trump Watch
NRDC tracks the Trump administration’s assaults on the environment.
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Offshore Drilling in the Atlantic? “That’s Not Who We Are.”
Southern communities prefer their coastlines sandy, beautiful, and bountiful—not filled with rigs and air guns blasting ships or covered in oil.
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Banishing the Climate Change Blues
Anxious about where our planet is headed? Tip one: You’re not alone—and that means a lot.
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When Clean Water’s Not Clear
The Trump administration wants to open our waterways back up to pollution.
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The Pesticide in Your Crisper Drawer
Shown to be toxic to kids, chlorpyrifos is nevertheless still being sprayed on crops across the country—and making its way into our bodies. So why has the EPA refused to ban it?
Earth's Best Defense
We focus on fundamental issues in order to protect the natural systems on which all life depends.
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Climate Change
To protect future generations, we work to cut carbon pollution and expand clean energy.
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Communities
NRDC works with local partners to help create strong, just, and resilient communities.
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Energy
Expanding clean energy protects our health, air, climate, and last wild places.
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Food
Choosing what we eat has a huge impact on our health and our environment.
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Health
NRDC strives to rid our food, air, water, and household products from toxic chemicals.
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Oceans
NRDC works to protect our world's oceans from pollution and exploitation.
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Water
Clean water sustains our communities, economies, ecosystems, and health.
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The Wild
Unspoiled wilderness protects our watersheds, cleans air, and shelters diverse species.
A Legacy of Impact
NRDC has helped pass our nation's bedrock environmental laws. We continue to ensure those laws are enforced and polluters are held accountable.
Local Fights
Whether in California or Chicago, India or Canada, we help protect communities around the world using decades of legal, scientific, and policy expertise.
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Blog PostCalifornia: America’s Climate Leader
The Golden State is stepping up its game to set the standard for powering our nation through 100 percent clean, renewable energy.
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Blog PostNew York State Blocks the Valley Lateral Pipeline!
In a victory for all New Yorkers, the state has blocked a natural gas pipeline that would have threatened upstate residents’ health, water quality and communities, citing climate change concerns.
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Southeast DispatchThis Tiny North Carolina Town Is Sick of Being a Dumping Ground for Pollution
The largely African-American community of Dobbins Heights hopes to protect its health—and its trees—from the biomass industry.
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NRDC in ActionTrading Coal Plants for Solar Farms in India
Senior attorney and India program director Anjali Jaiswal leads a small team that’s accomplishing big things in one of the world’s most polluted countries.
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NRDC in ActionAn Uphill Battle, and Persistence, in Flint
These four NRDC lawyers would finish each other’s thoughts—at any odd hour of the day or night—in their quest to help victims of the city’s lead crisis.
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Western DispatchAll Hands In to Repair Seattle’s Polluted Duwamish River
Local groups and government agencies are working together to remediate this Superfund site in the city’s midst, despite diminishing support from the EPA.
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Northeast DispatchIn Philadelphia, Climate Change Can Take Your Breath Away
But plans to cut local carbon pollution might help this asthma capital shake its wheezy reputation.
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Western DispatchWhittling Away at Energy Waste in Nevada
State lawmakers commit to a sustainable course with an ambitious new energy efficiency bill.
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Action FigureMeet Jane Kleeb: One of Nebraska’s First and Fiercest KXL Opponents
The founder of Bold Nebraska has led the Cornhusker State’s years-long rallying cry against TransCanada’s tar sands pipeline.
