
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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America Is Back in the International Climate Effort
President Biden has formally notified the United Nations that the United States will reenter the Paris Agreement. This marks the beginning of a drive toward more ambitious and just climate action in the country and around the world.
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Trump Left Our Democracy Wounded: These Two Bills Can Help to Repair It
The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and For the People Act are aimed at strengthening the foundations of our democracy so that we can build a more just and equitable society.
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NRDC Sues EPA for Its Illegal Rule That Will Expose Millions to Toxic Lead in Drinking Water
Instead of fixing the ineffective Lead and Copper Rule, the agency chose to leave millions of children’s health at high risk.
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Uprooting White Supremacy Is the Only Way Forward
To deny the role that white supremacy played in the January 6 attack on the Capitol is to ignore its true origins—and to endanger our shared, livable future.
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Cities: Time to Think Bigger on Climate
After four years of defunding and deregulation from the Trump White House, how can cities step up as climate leaders under a Biden administration?
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Pandemic Puts Eviction Crisis Front and Center
With pressure mounting, NRDC advocates are calling on lawmakers to step up protections for renters in the next relief package while also pushing for systemic changes that will help affordable housing stay that way.
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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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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 Post
Happy Birthday to the Arctic Refuge—and May it Live Forever
Just this week, the Trump administration set a date to auction off the heart of these lands. This will not stand.
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Southeast Dispatch
Why Florida Needs an Offshore Drilling Ban—One That’s Permanent
While the state can take solace in the recent moratorium extension, its waters are still at risk from the devastating impacts of seismic testing.
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Blog Post
How to Testify in Support of Composting in New York City
Here’s how you can stand up for community composting and make your voice heard at Friday’s New York City Council hearing.
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Blog Post
Pebble Mine Permit Denied!
The Army Corps is finally acknowledging the very real risks the proposed gold and copper mega-mine poses to the cherished Bristol Bay.
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Latest News
Local Change Is Creating Big Impact
A rundown of some of our most significant wins in communities across the country.
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Blog Post
NRDC 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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Rockies Dispatch
COVID-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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Blog Post
Industry 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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Southeast Dispatch
Climate 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.