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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Clean Energy Is the Key to Real Energy Independence
Oil companies have the same response to Ukraine and Russia as they do in every crisis: Drill more. But this time, nobody is fooled.
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IPCC: We Cannot Look Away—Climate Risks Are Cascading
The U.N. panel’s latest report paints a picture of the grim effects of global warming—and underscores the need for urgent, transformative adaptation.
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Demand Climate Action
Let's build a brighter, healthier, more just future together.
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Is the Supreme Court About to Hamstring the EPA in Its Fight Against Climate Change?
The upcoming case is a last-ditch effort by coal companies and coal-friendly states to keep the agency from doing its job.
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It's Time to Recover Wolves Nationally
A judge has ruled that the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service once again violated the Endangered Species Act when removing protections from wolves nationally.
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Climate Disasters in 2021: An Unrelenting & Expensive Toll
Climate hazards are intensifying, triggering profound suffering and loss of life. Action to deal with this public health crisis is long overdue.
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Stopping Pebble Mine: A Test of Our Democracy
For more than 100 years, the oil and gas industry has been drilling wells across the nation and then, as often as not, walking away. What's left behind is a rusting, leaking, hidden legacy of well heads, pipes, pumps, and other infrastructure that is slowly failing while putting communities and the climate at risk.
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Biodiversity and Climate Crises Demand Strong Action
Top takeaways from a new report on year one of the America the Beautiful initiative
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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.
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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Dispatch
A Once-Thriving Black-Owned Beach Is Returned to Its Rightful Owners
The victory at California’s Bruce’s Beach, improperly seized 100 years ago, has reignited the conversation around land restitution for Black Americans.
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Blog Post
The Texas Storm That Proved the Need for Grid Investments
It has been a year since Winter Storm Uri left millions of people without power. The United States cannot wait any longer to invest in its aging transmission system.
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Dispatch
A Turning Point in the Fight to Protect New Mexico’s Greater Chaco Region
The Biden administration’s proposal to prohibit new oil and gas leasing and drilling in the area comes after years of exploitation that’s had devastating health and cultural impacts on Indigenous communities.
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Blog Post
Developer Withdraws Casitas Project in Win For LA River
After years of organized community opposition, the proposed luxury LA River-adjacent development known locally as Casitas Lofts is no more.
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Blog Post
Portland Acts on Climate, Equity with Parking Fee
The city has passed a resolution to generate revenue by increasing parking rates to better capture the true cost of driving—to climate and communities—and use the revenue to bring greater equity to the transportation system.
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Blog Post
Iowa Group Protects Bee Habitat Amid ESA Battle
While NRDC and our partners are in court fighting to win habitat protections for the endangered rusty patched bumble bee, the Bur Oak Land Trust is taking matters into its own hands.
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NRDC in Action
Illinois Shows Us What the Road to Clean Energy Should Look Like
Here’s how a formidable clean energy coalition helped pass the most equitable climate legislation in the country—and developed a blueprint for other states to follow.
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Blog Post
Anniversary Highlights Threat to Everglades Restoration
Ongoing efforts to protect the Big Cypress National Preserve in the Florida Everglades.
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Blog Post
Gov Hochul Signs Bill for Safer Drinking Water in Schools
The bill—which will improve New York State's program to reduce lead in drinking water in public schools—passed the New York State Legislature unanimously.