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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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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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Standing Up to Attacks on Democracy
We know that, much as the strength of democracy has a direct bearing on NRDC’s mission, efforts to undermine it benefit those seeking to block environmental protections.
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Demand Climate Action
Let's build a brighter, healthier, more just future together.
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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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Jobs, Health, Climate: Plugging Wells, Making Polluters Pay
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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Haaland Takes Important Step to Protect Sacred Chaco Canyon from Fossil Fuel Extraction
The move is a major win in the larger fight to safeguard the Greater Chaco region, but permanent protection is still needed.
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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.
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The Chlorpyrifos Ban Is a Win for Science—and Children
NRDC advocates and our partners spent decades fighting against a highly toxic pesticide that harms kids, farmworkers, and their families. In August, the EPA finally banned it.
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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 PostLA City Council Votes Unanimously to End Urban Oil Drilling
This watershed moment demonstrates the power of community engagement and momentum.
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Blog PostGov 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.
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NRDC in ActionIllinois 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 PostAnniversary Highlights Threat to Everglades Restoration
Ongoing efforts to protect the Big Cypress National Preserve in the Florida Everglades.
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Blog PostNew Jersey Enacts Groundbreaking Neonic Legislation
New Jersey has enacted legislation that significantly curtails the use of neonicotinoid pesticides, becoming a nationwide leader on this issue and a model for other states.
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Blog PostIndia Could Create Millions of Jobs Through Renewable Energy
According to a new report, India’s renewable energy sector could potentially employ around one million people by 2030, which would be ten times more than the existing workforce.
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Blog PostBeyond COP26: How Young People Can Bring Climate Action Home
Our generation will be among the most impacted by the decisions made in Glasgow. But there are 353 days out of the year that aren’t COP—and how we choose to seize them will be the true mark of success for the climate action needed this decisive decade.
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DispatchHow to Stop a Highway
Houston activists fuel a growing movement to increasingly center environmental justice in infrastructure and protect urban neighborhoods from endlessly expanding road projects.
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DispatchWill Hawai‘i Show the Rest of the Nation the Way to Clean Up the Power Sector?
To help achieve 100 percent renewable energy by 2045, the state’s electric utilities now need to take up climate action if they want to turn a profit.
