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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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Indigenous Leaders at the Frontlines of Environmental Injustice and Solutions
The fight for a healthier planet is inextricably bound up with Indigenous rights. Across sectors and ecosystems, Indigenous leadership is charting the way toward a just and sustainable future.
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Biden Restores Protections for Three National Monuments
After Trump’s rollback attempts, Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante, and the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts will no longer be up for grabs by industry.
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Demand Climate Action
Let's build a brighter, healthier, more just future together.
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In Glasgow and in Washington, D.C., Climate Failure Is Not an Option
The stakes are high. But so is the opportunity.
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The Chlorpyrifos Ban Is a Win for Science—and Children
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.
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EPA’s Clean Cars Plan Can Deliver Health and Climate Gains
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.
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The Investments in Equity and Climate That We Desperately Need
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.
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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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Blog PostCalifornia Oil Disaster Brings New Urgency to Calls to Ban Drilling
We have to transition away from fossil fuels. That’s why it’s essential that Congress pass budget reconciliation with offshore drilling provisions—and enact President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda.
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Blog PostIllinois Passes Nation-Leading, Equitable Climate Bill
Illinois has passed the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (SB2408) into law, redefining the possible and positioning the state as a national leader on equitable climate action.
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DispatchWill Hawai‘i Show the Rest of the Nation the Way to Clean Up the Power Sector?
To help achieve 100 percent renewable energy by 2045, the state’s electric utilities now need to take up climate action if they want to turn a profit.
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Blog PostEPA Takes Major Step toward Permanently Protecting Bristol Bay
Thank you, EPA, for listening to tribes, communities, and supporters—and moving closer to forever stopping catastrophic projects like Pebble Mine.
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DispatchWashington State Adds Emergency Rules to Protect Workers from Heat and Wildfire Smoke
But many advocates point out that to fully address our new climate reality, we also need national solutions.
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Blog PostOrphan Wells: The Bill Comes Due for 150 Years of Drilling
Big Oil is leaving behind a colossal and dangerous mess on its way out. We need help from President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda to get started on the cleanup, but industry and not taxpayers must ultimately foot the bill.
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DispatchThe South’s Clean Energy Disruption
The region’s heritage of fossil fuels falters as clean energy rises in its place.
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DispatchDefenders of Homes, Hills, and Heritage Unite Against the Mountain Valley Pipeline
Meet five people who are fighting on the ground—from Virginia, West Virginia, and North Carolina—to stop the destructive fossil fuel project before it’s too late.
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VoicesOn the Island Where It Rained Oil, a Chance to Reimagine St. Croix
Limetree Bay oil refinery recently announced its indefinite closure. As residents reckon with the harm it’s caused, they’re also envisioning a healthier, more prosperous home.
