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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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In Biden’s Win, a Unifying Call for Bold Action on Climate
It’s now time to turn campaign promises into climate progress. Here’s what that looks like.
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NRDC and Partners Sue the Trump Administration for Failing to Update Dozens of Energy Efficiency Standards
As parts of the country begin to open up again, eviction moratoriums are being lifted or will be allowed to expire—and threaten to plunge millions of vulnerable U.S. households into homelessness.
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How to Protest Safely
Taking to the streets is a way to both lift our spirits and to effect real change. But before you head out, read these tips on how to stay vigilant, protest respectfully, and keep your community’s safety in mind.
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Wildfires Can Spark Widespread Contamination of Public Water Supplies
In communities devastated by fires, scientists have found extremely high levels of toxic chemicals, like benzene, in tap water.
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Trump Gives Polluting Mining Projects a Pass
The administration’s latest executive order would allow one of the most damaging industries in the nation to skirt thorough environmental reviews.
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The Climate Crisis Is Inflicting Costly Damage to Our Health
We can’t ignore the profound and expensive human suffering triggered by climate change. Watch our video to see why.
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NRDC Responds to COVID-19
This unprecedented public health crisis requires bold, equitable, science-based action.
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Understanding Trump’s Harmful Attack on NEPA
The National Environmental Policy Act gives us all a voice. The Trump administration is trying to silence it.
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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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Blog PostNRDC Announces Support for California’s Proposition 15
It’s little solace to hear that achieving the most optimistic goals for emissions reductions means “we’ll avoid the worst impacts of climate change,” if the worst thing that could happen has already happened or, for many, has happened multiple times.
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Latest NewsLocal Change Is Creating Big Impact
A rundown of some of our most significant wins in communities across the country.
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Rockies DispatchCOVID-19 Has Exposed the Gross Exploitation of Meatpacking Workers
The ongoing health and safety failures at the JBS meat-processing plant in Greeley, Colorado, highlight an industry-wide truth: It’s production over people, even in a deadly pandemic.
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Southeast DispatchClimate Change Floods North Carolina’s Housing Market
As sea level and extreme weather risks rise, larger down payments, inequities in insurance, and heirs’ properties could leave coastal residents drowning in debt and devalued homes.
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ArtKatrina, Climate, and Justice: A Future in Foreshadow?
After Hurricane Laura hit Louisiana just days before the Katrina remembrance, photojournalism from 15 years ago reminds us that disaster preparation isn’t just about wind and water.
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Blog PostIndustry Halts Its Efforts to Use Seismic Blasting in the Atlantic Ocean
In rare good news, the permits that allow fossil fuel companies to use deafening airguns—which harm many marine species—will expire on November 30 and not be renewed.
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Blog PostCommitting to Equitable Climate Action in Colorado
A new report outlines pathways for the state to achieve the greenhouse gas emissions reductions required by HB-1261—as well as the health and equity implications of statewide climate actions.
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Midwest DispatchThe Big Muddy River’s Long, Turbulent Relationship with Coal
As a proposal threatens to dump mining waste into a Mississippi River tributary, an Illinois community reassesses its coal industry ties.
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Western DispatchMussels Help Keep Watch on Pollution in Puget Sound
The humble bivalves, which concentrate everything from heavy metals to cancer drugs in their tissues, provide an ideal way for scientists to monitor nearshore water health.
