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Battling Urgent Threats
We combine the expertise of some 600 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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Advancing Bold Equitable and Just Climate Action
NRDC joins a national platform that fuses economic, racial, and environmental justice goals into a single advocacy framework.
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Trump Watch
NRDC tracks the Trump administration’s assaults on the environment.
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Our Public Lands Must Be Part of the Climate Change Solution
The fossil fuels found on our public lands are significant sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Instead of addressing this problem, the Trump administration is downplaying or outright ignoring it to benefit the oil, gas, and coal industries.
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Transportation Infrastructure: Fix It for Our Future
Cities and states are taking action on transportation upgrades. What they need is federal support and consistency.
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Adjusting A/C and Other Energy Use Saves Lives
Energy efficiency supports climate, air quality, and public health goals.
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Congress Ramps Up Climate Goals, Carmakers Break with Trump
As the heat rises, pressure builds on Congress and Carmakers
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The Future of Plastics Is Less: Addressing It at the Source
NRDC and hundreds of other organizations are demanding that the EPA take action to control industrial plants that produce plastic that is killing our wildlife.
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Three Former Republican EPA Administrators Are Sounding the Alarm
These environmental protectors of the Reagan and Bush eras have some things to say about the state of Trump’s EPA.
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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 PostThe Fight Goes On: Keystone XL Heads Back to Court
The Trump administration is determined to build this dirty tar sands oil pipeline. But we’re even more determined to stop it from ever happening.
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Midwest DispatchIs the Home of Big Auto Going Electric?
With its incoming network of charging stations and incentive programs for consumers, Michigan may have the most forward-looking EV infrastructure plan in the Midwest.
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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 PostBears Ears: A Monument in Name Only
This newest management plan released by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) spells out how the remaining 200,000 acres of the monument will be governed. The changes are so sweeping, what currently is known as the Bears Ears National Monument is rendered a monument in name only.
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NRDC in ActionAs Temperatures Soar in India, One City’s Efforts Are Saving Lives
The western city of Ahmedabad is preparing residents to cope with the longer and more intense heat waves sweeping across South Asia—and inspiring other Indian cities and states to follow suit.
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Blog PostNew York Takes Two Major Leaps Forward in Climate Change Fight
Governor Cuomo signs an ambitious climate bill into law and ramps up the state’s clean energy plan.
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Southwest DispatchHow Austin Plans to Grow—Without Adding More Cars to Its Roads
By tackling transit, ride sharing, and more, the Texas capital hopes to embrace its big-city identity.
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NRDC in ActionJustice Warrior on the Affordable Energy Front
Dawone Robinson is righting the inequities that low-income communities of color face in accessing the benefits of energy efficiency—like more comfortable homes and lower energy bills, for starters.
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Midwest DispatchAfter a Century of Being Dammed Up, Illinois Rivers Get to Go With the Flow
Dam removals are setting rapids and fish populations free and keeping swimmers and boaters safer.
