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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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Rocket Fuel Chemical Doesn’t Belong in Food Packaging
Perchlorate has been shown to impair the development of fetuses and young children—and yet the FDA refuses to act. So NRDC is taking the agency to court.
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Is America Actually Out of the Paris Agreement?
The agreement’s authors built in a time line for withdrawal that President Trump will have to follow—slowing him down from irreparably damaging our climate.
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Groups Sue to Keep Clean Water Protections Intact
By repealing the Clean Water Rule, the Trump administration is putting the drinking water sources for millions of Americans at risk.
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Lowe’s Joins Home Depot to Tackle Toxic PFAS in Carpets
The home improvement company is taking the right step in addressing the problem of these harmful “forever chemicals,” which can now be found in the blood of virtually every American.
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NRDC Takes Trump to Court for Clean Car Rollback
The lawsuit is in response to the administration’s latest attempt to dismantle states’ clean car progress—and, in the process, destroy our climate and health.
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Amid National Drinking Water Crises, EPA Moves to Weaken Lead Protections
The agency’s proposed revisions of the Lead and Copper Rule fall far short of the overhaul that is needed to protect millions from lead-contaminated water.
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Coal Plants Get a Pass to Pollute Our Waterways
The EPA just moved to weaken two critical rules that protect our water.
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Trump Watch
NRDC tracks the Trump administration’s assaults on the environment.
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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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Midwest DispatchHow Cincinnati Is Punching Above Its Weight in the Climate Fight
For years this midsize city has been a leader in cutting carbon pollution. Now it’s raising its game with solar, energy efficiency, and electric cars.
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Southeast DispatchShowing Migrating Monarch Butterflies Some Southern Hospitality
Non-native tropical milkweed fuels monarchs on their journey through southern states, but when cooler weather hits, the plant can bring parasites and starvation. Here’s what butterfly-loving southerners can do.
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Southeast DispatchNeeding Water, Georgia Stirs Up a 200-Year-Old Dispute With Its Northern Neighbor
As droughts parch the Southeast, interstate squabbles heat up over the Tennessee River (and the Chattahoochee . . . and the Flint . . . and the Apalachicola).
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Northeast DispatchCould the Climate Crisis Spell the End for Maine Lobster?
The state’s thriving lobster industry owes a lot to smart fishery conservation measures implemented over the past three decades. But given the Gulf of Maine’s rapid warming, how far can these interventions go?
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Rockies DispatchIn Colorado’s High Desert, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Goes Solar
The Ute Mountain Ute tribe is working to free itself from fossil fuel dependency—and preparing to help solarize the rest of the state, too.
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Southeast DispatchThe People of the Isle de Jean Charles Are Louisiana’s First Climate Refugees—but They Won’t Be the Last
Whether and how to uproot communities are difficult and painful questions, and we need to get better at answering them.
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Blog PostPennsylvania to Join Regional Effort to Slash Climate-Damaging Power Plant Pollution
A recent report by NRDC highlights water management solutions that address floods and droughts, two seemingly divergent issues that already take a toll om Chile's the Metropolitan Region.
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Blog PostPrioritizing Environmental Justice in Chicago
Making meaningful progress in addressing the inequalities that industrial pollution adds to the Chicago’s most vulnerable residents can happen before we determine the structure of a new agency.
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Blog PostClimate Chaos: California Wildfires Endanger Millions
As the Golden State fights catastrophic wildfires, we cannot lose sight of the human health toll.
