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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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Victory! Court Orders the EPA to Finalize a Ban on Chlorpyrifos
The agency broke the law by continuing to allow use of the toxic pesticide despite scientific proof that the chemical harms children’s developing brains.
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Demand Climate Action
Let's build a brighter, healthier, more just future together.
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NRDC Petitions to Save Remaining Gulf of Mexico Whales
To help ensure the survival of this desperately endangered species, NRDC and our partners are asking the government to establish rules to prevent deadly vessel strikes.
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When Asian Americans Are Missing from Public Health Data, It’s Harder to Protect Them
If science is the search for truth, then let’s get real by ensuring research actually represents who’s out there and what’s happening to them, from COVID-19 to climate change.
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EPA Takes First Step Toward Undoing Trump’s Illegal and Woefully Weak Lead and Copper Rule
The agency is pausing on the previous administration’s changes to the rule in order to consult with communities who are most impacted.
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Why Racial Justice Is a Climate Issue
The transition to the Biden/Harris administration has marked a wave of change in how we perceive both the challenges of our time and the promise of our nation.
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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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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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Western DispatchAn Oil Giant Is No Match for Resistance and Resilience in Richmond, California
How a small Laotian refugee community on San Francisco Bay took on Chevron, won—and keeps winning.
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Blog PostChance for a More Resilient and Equitable Food System in California
With AB 125, California has an opportunity to reshape our food and farming system to help protect workers in fields, kitchens, and grocery stores while providing our most vulnerable communities improved access to healthy, sustainably produced food.
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Northeast DispatchHow Rikers Island Became a Vehicle for Justice (Once It Started Shutting Down)
The Renewable Rikers plan to reimagine the site of New York City’s notorious jail complex could bring green jobs, cleaner air, and community investment to the neighborhoods most harmed by mass incarceration.
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Western DispatchAlaska Natives Lead a Unified Resistance to the Pebble Mine
The effort to stop a massive mine project in Bristol Bay, Alaska, has been a decades-long fight for the region’s Indigenous People. Five tribal leaders share their experiences.
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Midwest DispatchFighting Inequity with Solar Power
Minneapolis’s 4d program to boost energy efficiency and affordable housing in the city is kicking it up a notch.
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Blog PostWhat Went Wrong in Texas? Why We Need to Investigate
The deadly winter storms and power outages in Texas last month are just the latest example of why the United States needs a National Disaster Safety Board.
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Western DispatchHonolulu Charts a Path Away from Fossil Fuels
As part of the American Cities Climate Challenge, a coalition of climate advocates just helped pass a series of bills that will curb emissions and rein in Honolulu’s sky-high cost of living at once.
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Blog PostColorado Must Center Equity in Climate Action
Historical & present-day environmental racism threatens the health, economic prosperity, and well-being of marginalized communities across Colorado. That's why we're proud to have signed on to a letter calling for equity to be centered in climate action.
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Blog PostPittsburgh Poised to Thrive on Biden’s Plan
An equitable recovery powered by climate action means millions of well-paying jobs—with the Steel City, and other places like it, at the center of it all.
