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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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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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Protecting the Public’s Right to Know about Drinking Water Contamination
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency can improve public awareness by fixing defects in the Safe Drinking Water Act’s right-to-know reports.
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How to Start Saving the Planet in 100 Days: the Joe Biden Edition
Here’s what we want to see from our new president on the environmental front between now and May.
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America Is Back in the International Climate Effort
This marks the beginning of a drive toward more ambitious and just climate action in the country and around the world.
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NRDC Sues Feds for Failure to Protect Gray Wolves During Biodiversity Crisis
The new delisting rule from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service unlawfully removes protections for gray wolves across the country.
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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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The Climate Crisis Is Inflicting Costly Damage to Our Health
We can’t ignore the profound and expensive human suffering triggered by climate change. Watch our video to see why.
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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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Blog PostTexas Shows Us Our Water Future with Climate Change: It Ain’t Pretty
Texas was just a glimpse of what’s to come. With increasing wildfires, drought, flooding, and sea-level rise, we must make sure our water systems can continue to operate during such events.
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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 PostNewark Residents Secure Protections from Lead in Drinking Water
The result of a citizen suit brought by NRDC and NEW Caucus, the proposed settlement would ensure a continued commitment by the City of Newark to protecting the public from the toxic heavy metal.
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Blog PostHappy Birthday to the Arctic Refuge—and May it Live Forever
Just this week, the Trump administration set a date to auction off the heart of these lands. This will not stand.
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Southeast DispatchWhy Florida Needs an Offshore Drilling Ban—One That’s Permanent
While the state can take solace in the recent moratorium extension, its waters are still at risk from the devastating impacts of seismic testing.
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Blog PostPebble Mine Permit Denied!
The Army Corps is finally acknowledging the very real risks the proposed gold and copper mega-mine poses to the cherished Bristol Bay.
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Latest NewsLocal Change Is Creating Big Impact
A rundown of some of our most significant wins in communities across the country.
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Rockies DispatchCOVID-19 Has Exposed the Gross Exploitation of Meatpacking Workers
The ongoing health and safety failures at the JBS meat-processing plant in Greeley, Colorado, highlight an industry-wide truth: It’s production over people, even in a deadly pandemic.
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Blog PostIndustry Halts Its Efforts to Use Seismic Blasting in the Atlantic Ocean
In rare good news, the permits that allow fossil fuel companies to use deafening airguns—which harm many marine species—will expire on November 30 and not be renewed.
