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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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What We Got Out of COP26—and What’s Still Needed
We’ve reached the strongest global consensus yet that fossil fuels must be phased out. But as youth activists remind us, the seas are still rising.
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Demand Climate Action
Let's build a brighter, healthier, more just future together.
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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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Solving Supply Chain Crisis Must Center Health and Workers
Now more than ever, governments must lean into labor laws that protect workers and environmental standards that accelerate the transition to zero-emission freight movement, all to help untangle supply chains and mitigate pollution.
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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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Congress Must Reauthorize Anti-Wildlife Trafficking Law
If we reduce or remove high disease-risk species from wildlife trade—like wild birds and mammals—we can lessen the threat of future pandemics.
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Big Oil CEOs Can’t Talk Their Way Out of Global Catastrophe
House Oversight Committee to Hold CEOs, US Chamber of Commerce, and API to Account for Decades of Misleading the Public
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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 PostIndia's New Climate Target Could Create 3.5 Million Jobs
Over 3.5 million jobs (short and long term) can be created by achieving India’s newly announced 500 gigawatts (GW) non-fossil electricity capacity goal by 2030, as discussed during an NRDC and partner session in Glasgow.
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DispatchWill Los Angeles Finally Put an End to Oil Drilling in Neighborhoods?
For close to a decade, the STAND-L.A. coalition has been calling on the city to stop extracting oil near homes and schools. Victory, at long last, is within reach.
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Blog PostNew Yorkers Lead a New Wave of Environmental Rights
An overwhelming majority of New York residents voted for an amendment that would require the state to safeguard people's health and natural resources in future policies and projects across the state.
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Blog PostCanada’s Accounting Artifice Masks Logging’s Climate Toll
A new report from NRDC, Nature Canada, Environmental Defence Canada, and Nature Québec illustrates that, through a series of accounting and regulatory loopholes, the Government of Canada has drawn a curtain over the logging industry’s carbon emissions, allowing the sector to escape scrutiny for its substantial climate impact.
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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.
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Blog PostSeattle Orders Building Standard and Walk Zone for Climate
Speaking from Glasgow at the international COP-26 climate meeting, Mayor Jenny Durkan announced an executive order to cut Seattle’s greenhouse gas emissions from the city’s two largest sources: transportation and buildings.
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DispatchThrough a Solar Transformation, a Former Landfill Is Poised to Become a Community Lifeline
In Sunnyside, Houston—a neighborhood that recently registered the city’s highest unemployment rate—residents are preparing for an influx of jobs to come from the Sunnyside Energy Community Solar project.
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Blog PostSan José Council Votes to Go Carbon Neutral by 2030
The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) is proposing a new greenhouse gas reduction rule this fall that would require the state and its regions to cut climate-warming pollution from transportation by investing more in sustainable mobility options.
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DispatchFighting Climate Change and Heatstroke One Home at a Time
With their state’s joining of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, Virginians are reaping the benefits of upgrades to their homes and quality of life.
