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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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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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Trump Watch
NRDC tracks the Trump administration’s assaults on the environment.
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U.N. Biodiversity Report: A Million Reasons to Better Protect Our Natural Systems
Human civilization is under threat. We must save nature in order to address this emergency.
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The Desire to Stop Canadian Tar Sands Transcends Borders
For more than a decade, NRDC has worked with indigenous communities in Alberta, U.S.-based grassroots groups, and intergovernmental bodies to halt the expansion of dirty tar sands oil.
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House Passes First Climate Bill in a Decade
The Climate Action Now Act would ensure the United States makes good on its Paris Agreement promises.
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EPA Backs Industry, Defending Carcinogenic Herbicide Glyphosate
But the toxic chemical, more commonly known as Roundup, was just found by the administration’s own science advisors to threaten public health.
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Endangered Gulf of Mexico Whale Granted Long-Overdue Protections
As the threat from offshore drilling looms large, the species’ population has dwindled to just 33 individuals. Now they have a chance to survive.
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Citing Courtroom Setback, Bernhardt Says Offshore Drilling Plan Now On Hold
The delay comes after a legal victory by NRDC and our partners, which reinstated Obama-era protections for hundreds of millions of acres of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans.
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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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Western DispatchL.A. Takes a Fresh Look at Recycled Water
Facing dwindling freshwater supplies, the city is ready to stop dumping millions of gallons into the Pacific—and to follow Orange County’s lead.
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Blog PostThe Rise of the “Outdoor Voting Bloc”
In Colorado and neighboring states, a thoroughly western combination of self-reliance and responsibility is translating into action on climate.
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Southwest DispatchA Fracking Boom Ransacks the Four Corners
Native American activists in northwest New Mexico are putting up a firm resistance as the U.S. Bureau of Land Management hands over their homeland to allies in the oil and gas industry.
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Western DispatchCalifornia Lunchrooms May Soon Serve Up Organics
A state bill promises organic food to students—and benefits for local farmers and farmworkers, too.
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Midwest DispatchIllinois: Fossil Fuel–Free by 2050?
Two new bills could put the Prairie State on the path to 100 percent renewable energy within decades.
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Western DispatchHawaii Stands Up for Its Sharks With Fishing Ban
The Aloha State is on track to become the first in the nation to ban shark fishing outright, creating a critical safe harbor for these threatened animals.
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Southwest DispatchAlbuquerque Is Wiring Up Millennials to Work With the Sun
With its plan to source all city energy needs from renewable power by 2022, Albuquerque, a winner of the Bloomberg American Cities Climate Challenge, is also jump-starting its solar workforce.
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Blog PostAlaska, Now More Than Ever
The U.N. report makes clear in detailed and compelling fashion, just what is at stake in ending this assault on our matchless biological heritage in Alaska.
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Blog PostCould “Liking” an Anti-Pipeline Facebook Post Soon Be Illegal?
A new South Dakota law—written in consultation with the company that owns Keystone XL—could punish people for exercising their right to peaceful protest. Is it a harbinger of things to come?
