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Battling Urgent Threats
We combine the expertise of some 700 scientists, lawyers, and advocates with the power of more than three million members and online activists to confront our planet's most pressing problems.
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Victory! Court Orders the EPA to Finalize a Ban on Chlorpyrifos
The agency broke the law by continuing to allow use of the toxic pesticide despite scientific proof that the chemical harms children’s developing brains.
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Demand Climate Action
Let's build a brighter, healthier, more just future together.
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How Wolves and Other Wildlife Help Us Fight for the Climate
With what we’re learning about the way wildlife influences ecosystems and the carbon cycle, it’s all the more important to protect biodiversity and keep our planet livable for all.
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A How-To Guide for Dismantling Trump’s Anti-Environment Legacy
Reversing the former president’s damage to U.S. environmental and public health policy is possible—but it’ll take some time.
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When Asian Americans Are Missing from Public Health Data, It’s Harder to Protect Them
If science is the search for truth, then let’s get real by ensuring research actually represents who’s out there and what’s happening to them, from COVID-19 to climate change.
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EPA Takes First Step Toward Undoing Trump’s Illegal and Woefully Weak Lead and Copper Rule
The agency is pausing on the previous administration’s changes to the rule in order to consult with communities who are most impacted.
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Cities: Time to Think Bigger on Climate
After four years of defunding and deregulation from the Trump White House, how can cities step up as climate leaders under a Biden administration?
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NRDC Responds to COVID-19
This unprecedented public health crisis requires bold, equitable, science-based action.
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Our Victories
Some of NRDC's major achievements among the hundreds of victories we’ve accomplished to make good on the founding goal of protecting our environment for generations to come.
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, ensured those laws are enforced, and held polluters accountable. We’ve got 50 years of wins to show for it.
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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Southeast DispatchThe Drinking Water Crisis That North Carolina Ignored
For decades, DuPont dumped toxic PFAS into the Cape Fear River. Today, a local community is suffering the health consequences—and fighting back.
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Blog PostIllinois Takes a Major Step Toward Replacing Its Lead Service Lines
The Lead Service Line Replacement and Notification Act will put the health of Illinoisians first—particularly those who bear the brunt of toxic lead exposure.
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ExplainerThe Electric Car Revolution Shouldn’t Leave Anyone Behind
A new program in St. Louis, Missouri, is bringing EVs and charging stations to low-income neighborhoods—and turning senior and disabled residents into early adopters, one ride at a time.
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Western DispatchAn Oil Giant Is No Match for Resistance and Resilience in Richmond, California
How a small Laotian refugee community on San Francisco Bay took on Chevron, won—and keeps winning.
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Blog PostChicago Officials Halt Permit Process for Move of General Iron’s Notorious Metal Shredding Operation to Southeast Side
This marks a major step forward in dismantling the environmental racism that has plagued the neighborhood for decades.
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Blog PostChance for a More Resilient and Equitable Food System in California
With AB 125, California has an opportunity to reshape our food and farming system to help protect workers in fields, kitchens, and grocery stores while providing our most vulnerable communities improved access to healthy, sustainably produced food.
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Northeast DispatchHow Rikers Island Became a Vehicle for Justice (Once It Started Shutting Down)
The Renewable Rikers plan to reimagine the site of New York City’s notorious jail complex could bring green jobs, cleaner air, and community investment to the neighborhoods most harmed by mass incarceration.
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Western DispatchAlaska Natives Lead a Unified Resistance to the Pebble Mine
The effort to stop a massive mine project in Bristol Bay, Alaska, has been a decades-long fight for the region’s Indigenous People. Five tribal leaders share their experiences.
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Blog PostPittsburgh Poised to Thrive on Biden’s Plan
An equitable recovery powered by climate action means millions of well-paying jobs—with the Steel City, and other places like it, at the center of it all.
