NRDC president and CEO Manish Bapna, an economist by training, knows that solving the climate emergency will require the global transformation of key economic systems—and that the transformation cannot wait a day longer.

NRDC advocates and our partners spent decades fighting against a highly toxic pesticide that harms kids, farmworkers, and their families. In August, the EPA finally banned it.

Let's build a brighter, healthier, more just future together.

Fossil fuel pollution from cars and trucks harms public health and contributes to the climate crisis. EPA’s plan to tighten pollution standards will benefit all Americans—if it chooses an aggressive path.

President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda can put people to work while confronting climate change. A summer of mounting crises proves Congress must fully enact it now.

There’s no going back, but there is a way forward: Act now and go big.

This week’s IPCC report makes it clear that heat waves will continue to worsen—so we must rise to the challenge of living with extreme heat events.

This unprecedented public health crisis requires bold, equitable, science-based action.

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.