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America’s Troubled Waters

Jasmine Valdovinos at her family’s home in Oakland, California, on May 1st, 2026.

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Crossota, a deep red medusa, found just off the sea floor in the deep sea north of Point Barrow, Alaska.

Deep-Sea Mining: What’s at Stake

A U.S. flag flutters in the wind as the CHIOS crude oil tanker sits anchored off the coast of the Chevron's El Segundo Refinery in El Segundo, California, on March 4, 2026. Markets have been roiled much of the week as the conflict between the US and Iran effectively closed shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, where a fifth of the world's crude oil travels as well as considerable liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies travel through.

When Energy Security Is a Casualty of War

Children play on the banks of the West Branch of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania, in September 2025. Once deemed a "dead" river due to pollution from unregulated coal mining, the West Branch has undergone a major revival through intensive reclamation and treatment projects.

A Fund for Cleaning Up Coal Mining’s Toxic Legacy Dries Up

The 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning Pro electric pickup truck production line at the Electric Vehicle Center on the grounds of the Ford River Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan.

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Fire boat response crews hosing down the burning remains of BP's Transocean Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit Deepwater Horizon after an explosion on the rig, located in the Gulf of Mexico, occurred on April 20, 2010.

16 Years after Deepwater Horizon, We’re Charging in the Wrong Direction

Kemp's ridley sea turtle hatchlings crawling toward the Gulf of Mexico from Padre Island National Seashore, Texas.

The God Squad from Hell: Trump Convened Committee to Greenlight Extinction

A child walks along a beach on the outskirts of El Palito Refinery in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, at dusk on December 18, 2025.

Venezuela’s Oil Resources Are Vast (and Should Stay Underground)

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North Atlantic right whale Skittle (#3260) swimming with her calf east of Kure Beach, North Carolina, on February 16, 2024. On March 21, Skittle was seen without her calf on the calving grounds then she was spotted again without her calf in Cape Cod Bay on April 16. Young right whale calves depend on their mothers for nutrition, and may nurse for up to a year. Since researchers saw Skittle twice without her calf, the calf is presumed dead. Skittle's first known calf, born in 2010, also likely died soon aft
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Fewer than 340 North Atlantic right whales remain

The Trump administration is considering rolling back vital protections that require massive commercial ships to go slower in right whale habitat, which helps reduce deadly strikes. We need your help to raise a massive public outcry in defense of North Atlantic right whales.

 

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Kemp's ridley sea turtle hatchlings crawling toward the Gulf of Mexico from Padre Island National Seashore, Texas.
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Protect endangered wildlife from the outrageous God Squad exemption!

The Trump administration’s God Squad unanimously voted to sacrifice endangered marine species—manatees, sea turtles, and whales—that are getting in the way of its plans for expanding oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. NRDC sued, but we also need your help to keep up a massive public outcry to so that endangered species aren't pushed to extinction.

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