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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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NRDC Responds to COVID-19
This unprecedented public health crisis requires bold, equitable, science-based action.
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Trump Takes Moment of National Crisis to Give Polluters an Unprecedented Pass
Amid widespread racist violence and a deadly pandemic, the president has chosen to sidestep bedrock environmental laws that protect the environment and public health.
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Confronting Racism and Brutality with Justice and Truth
The arc of the moral universe may bend toward justice, but only if we bend it that way.
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EPA Curbs State and Tribal Authority to Block Projects that Harm Waterways
The move makes it that much easier for industry to barrel risky proposals for things like oil and gas pipelines toward approval.
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The Forgotten Essential Workers
The laborers who harvest our fruits and vegetables are heroes, although they’re rarely treated that way. Now climate change threatens their safety—and our food supply.
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NRDC Sues Trump Administration to Keep Commercial Fishing Out of Vulnerable Marine Monument
The Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument is home to an extraordinary array of marine species. But the Trump administration is trying to strip it of its core protections.
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Our Greatest Environmental Success Is at Risk
For 50 years the Clean Air Act has proved that health and prosperity go hand in hand. The landmark law is now under threat.
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Chemical Industry’s Nancy Beck Tapped to Lead the Commission that Protects Consumers
The former industry executive has a long history of blocking protections when it comes to harmful substances.
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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. We continue to ensure those laws are enforced and polluters are held accountable.
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 PostEnergy Efficiency Can Help Us Emerge from the Pandemic
Energy-saving programs can help make buildings healthier while lowering electric and gas bills—freeing up much-needed cash that can be used for food, rent, and medicine, and by municipalities for things like fire stations and schools.
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NRDC in ActionThese NRDC Experts Show Us How We Can Slow the Spread of Zoonotic Diseases
It will take the highest levels of international cooperation, but by working to curb wildlife trade and conserve vast swaths of disappearing habitat, we can minimize the interspecies interactions that spread viruses.
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Blog PostCourt Deals Another Blow to Keystone XL, Invalidates Key Permit
Siding with NRDC and our partners, a federal court agreed that the Nationwide Permit 12 allows dangerous pipeline projects to skirt environmental laws.
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NRDC In ActionWith Family Roots in the Mines, He’s Championing Illinois’s Clean Energy Future
With grassroots groups and other partners, J. C. Kibbey is fighting for one of the country’s most ambitious climate bills—and a just transition away from coal.
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NRDC in ActionThe City Insider Proving that Mayors Can Lead on Climate
Chris Wheat, who helped make Chicago a greener place from inside its city hall, is now helping empower city governments across the country to realize their many climate ambitions.
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VictoryThe Revitalization of This Former Coal Town Starts Now
Following a landmark settlement agreement, $8.6 million will be invested back into projects that uplift the community of Peoria, Illinois, where a dirty coal plant is scheduled to close by the end of 2022.
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NRDC in ActionLivestock and Predators Can Coexist
NRDC has long collaborated with regional partners, including ranchers, to promote nonlethal methods as an effective alternative to the needless cycles of conflict and killing.
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Blog PostSupreme Court Hands Win to Atlantic Coast Pipeline Developers Looking to Cross Appalachian Trail
But the fight to protect communities, wetlands, and wildlife from the proposed pipeline is far from over.
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Science SpotlightClimate Change Is Drying Out the American West
A new study shows that drought is no longer a periodic crisis, but a harbinger of things to come.
