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Battling Urgent Threats
We combine the expertise of nearly 500 scientists, lawyers, and advocates with the power of more than two million activists to confront our planet's most pressing problems.
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This Harmful Pesticide Should Have Been Banned Years Ago. Now It Could Finally Happen.
Thankfully, senators are stepping in where Donald Trump’s EPA has fallen down.
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Trump Watch
NRDC tracks the Trump administration’s assaults on the environment.
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Offshore Drilling in the Atlantic? “That’s Not Who We Are.”
Southern communities prefer their coastlines sandy, beautiful, and bountiful—not filled with rigs and air guns blasting ships or covered in oil.
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How to Talk to a Paris Accord Skeptic
We know that you know that Trump’s assessment of the Paris Agreement is way off base. Here’s how to convince those who don’t.
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When Clean Water’s Not Clear
The Trump administration wants to open our waterways back up to pollution.
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Fighting the Trump Agenda: A Step-by-Step Guide
Tracking Trump's attacks on the environment and how you can help NRDC stop him.
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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Northeast DispatchIn Philadelphia, Climate Change Can Take Your Breath Away
But plans to cut local carbon pollution might help this asthma capital shake its wheezy reputation.
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NRDC in ActionAn Uphill Battle, and Persistence, in Flint
These four NRDC lawyers would finish each other’s thoughts—at any odd hour of the day or night—in their quest to help victims of the city’s lead crisis.
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Western DispatchWhittling Away at Energy Waste in Nevada
State lawmakers commit to a sustainable course with an ambitious new energy efficiency bill.
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Western DispatchThe California Case of an Antique Ivory Collector v. African Elephants
So far, the state isn’t bowing to the demands of one man who is trying to dismantle its ivory ban.
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Action FigureMeet Jane Kleeb: One of Nebraska’s First and Fiercest KXL Opponents
The founder of Bold Nebraska has led the Cornhusker State’s years-long rallying cry against TransCanada’s tar sands pipeline.
