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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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Climate Science Is Not Mythology
Trump and the GOP Congress are obsessed with undermining the climate crisis and the science behind it. This will cost us our future.
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Trump Watch
NRDC tracks the Trump administration’s assaults on the environment.
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No More Poisons on Pets: The EPA Must Act
The science shows that TCVP flea control products harm developing brains—yet the EPA is allowing them to stay on the market. So NRDC is taking the agency back to court.
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Interior Department Guts Critical Offshore Drilling Safety Protections
The safeguards were put in place after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout as a way to prevent another deadly oil disaster.
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EPA’s Proposal for Limiting Rocket Fuel in Drinking Water Is Dangerous to Public Health
The toxic chemical perchlorate has already been detected in drinking water systems that serve millions of Americans.
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U.N. Report: A Million Extinctions and Ecological Collapse Are on the Way
We got ourselves into this mess. It’s high time we got ourselves out of it.
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Wendy’s Burgers Made With “Old-Fashioned” Antibiotics Policy
It’s time for the fast-food giant to do its part in fighting one of today’s greatest global health threats.
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Inaction on Climate Change Will Leave Us Lost at Sea
New projections suggest sea level rise could exceed 6.5 feet by 2100. But we can halt that tide by stopping runaway carbon pollution.
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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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Northeast DispatchNew York City Students Are Taking On Climate Change, Starting in the Lunchroom
This fall, a Meatless Mondays initiative will go into effect across all 1,800 NYC public schools.
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Western DispatchCalifornia Beckons the Gray Wolf—but Can’t Guarantee a Safe Journey There
The future of wolves in the West depends on collaborative cross-border commitments to protecting this icon of the wild.
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Blog PostLeading Labor Unions and Environmental Groups Join Forces to Act on Climate
The Solidarity for Climate Action platform will combat our greatest global threat while creating jobs and tackling economic inequality.
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Midwest DispatchColumbus Makes Its Historically Disadvantaged Neighborhoods a Key to Its Climate Future
Self-driving shuttles and energy audits are helping to keep this Ohio boomtown booming (without the carbon bust).
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Blog PostUNESCO Protects Near-Extinct Vaquita's Habitat
The decision will continue to pressure the Mexican government to clamp down on the marine mammal’s sole threat: illegal fishing with gillnets.
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Midwest DispatchBattered by Floods, Nebraskans Worry About Pipeline Spills
Historic flooding recently inundated parts of the Cornhusker State where the proposed Keystone XL pipeline would pass through. Here’s why that’s a disaster in the making.
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Southeast DispatchFishing in Warming Seas, North Carolinians Trek North to Reel in Their Catch
As climate change sends fisheries into flux, managers must keep up with the latest science to sustain them.
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Southwest DispatchThese Texans Are Sick of Chemical Fires and Toxic Spills in Their Backyard
A community along the Houston Ship Channel ramps up its fight against heavy industry and lax oversight after another petrochemical factory blaze closes local schools and causes a spike in respiratory illness.
