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NRDC uses science, policy, law, and people power to confront the climate crisis, protect public health, and safeguard nature. Get updates on our issues.

Our Work

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Climate Change

The power to reverse this crisis lies with us.
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Equity & Justice

The environmental movement must seek justice.
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Human Health

Health is at the forefront of our fight for a sustainable, equitable world.
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Nature & Wildlife

In order for people to thrive, nature must too.
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The Latest

What the Supreme Court’s Sackett v. EPA Ruling Means for Wetlands and Other Waterways

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Code Red for Heat: Workers & Communities Need Protections Now

India’s Air Pollution Challenge Spans Rural and Urban Areas

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Cascading Climate Disasters Call for Resolve, Not Despair

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Campaign Pushes Local Food & Safe Products at Dollar General

Biden Administration Set to Invest $20 Billion in Clean Energy Finance

Environmental Groups Oppose Harmful Right Whale Vessel Strike Bills

EPA Announces the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Solar for All Program

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Federal Agencies Restore Endangered Species Protections—Mostly

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What Happens If the Supreme Court Ends “Chevron Deference”?

How to Stay Safe From Wildfire Smoke

Building a Better Future

Help us ensure the rights of all people to clean air, clean water, and healthy communities.

Community Highlights

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Community Science Is Changing How People Can Fight Pollution

Grassroots groups are collecting their own pollution data to increase accountability and demand environmental justice.
Learn More about Community Science Is Changing How People Can Fight Pollution

How to Become a Community Scientist

Connecting Youth to Nature Supports Equity and Climate Change Goals

Shared Knowledge Is Power in the Northern Mariana Islands

Petition

Demand ConocoPhillips stop Arctic drilling

ConocoPhillips’ Willow oil drilling project in the western Arctic will add hundreds of millions of metric tons of carbon pollution to our atmosphere. These jaw-dropping emissions are virtually guaranteed to accelerate the climate crisis, resulting in more harm to communities and ecosystems already in distress from unnatural floods, droughts, wildfires, and storms.
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Protect mature forests and trees to fight the climate crisis

When mature trees are cut down and processed, much of their stored carbon is rapidly released, and recapturing carbon through forest regrowth takes decades or even centuries. But climate change is upon us now—we don’t have time to regrow forests.
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A Legacy of Impact

For more than 50 years, NRDC has been shaping critical environmental policies around the world, ensuring those policies are upheld and holding polluters accountable.

$369b

U.S. federal investment in energy, climate, and justice

1,100

Deaths avoided annually since implementing the heat action plan in Ahmedabad, India

$97m

Legal settlement to examine and replace the water lines in Flint, Michigan

2tr

Gallons of gasoline saved since 1975, thanks to federal clean transportation rules