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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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World’s Largest Producer of Toxic Pesticide Chlorpyrifos Ends Its Production
It’s a hard-won milestone in the decades-long battle against the chemical—but the fight for a federal ban wages on.
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Justice Warrior on the Affordable Energy Front
Dawone Robinson is righting the inequities that low-income communities of color face in accessing the benefits of energy efficiency—like more comfortable homes and lower energy bills, for starters.
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Gina McCarthy to Congress: We Must Act Boldly on Climate to Protect Public Health
It’s not an either–or: Urgent climate action will save lives and boost the economy. The solutions are in reach.
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Trump Administration Officially Invites Polluters into Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments
The move is a threat to these pristine lands and the irreplaceable artifacts, fossils, and Indigenous cultural sites they hold.
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From Farms to Dollar Stores, One Woman’s Fight for Justice
In her long history as a community organizer and environmental justice activist, Helga Garza has advocated for clean water and nontoxic toys. Her current mission: making fresh, local produce accessible.
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Trump Disregards Citizens in His Rush for Polluting Projects
Under the administration's new plan, a huge swath of government-approved and funded projects would be exempt from NEPA reviews, in an attempt to shut out the public.
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EPA Finds Neonics Are Risky Business—but Plans to Approve Anyway
These toxic pesticides are a leading cause of bee declines, a grave threat to aquatic life, and a possible threat to human health.
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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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NRDC In ActionLights, Camera, Action on Climate
Daniel Hinerfeld is partnering with TV and film writers, producers, and other Hollywood creatives to address climate change on-screen.
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Rockies DispatchDenver Wants to Zoom Past Its Car-Centric Street Design
City officials see dedicated bus corridors, scooter-share programs, and protected bike lanes as key to greening their transportation network.
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Southeast DispatchFor a Rare Woodpecker in the Longleaf Pine Forest, It's a Hard-Knock Life
Conservationists have worked hard to help the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker recover, but say there’s still lots more to do. The government seems to disagree.
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NRDC In ActionWith Family Roots in the Mines, He’s Championing Illinois’s Clean Energy Future
With grassroots groups and other partners, J. C. Kibbey is fighting for one of the country’s most ambitious climate bills—and a just transition away from coal.
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Blog PostSaving Nature Will Take Bold Action: “Thirty by Thirty”
The developers of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline want to cut through the Appalachian Trail. NRDC just filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court explaining why their proposed route is unlawful.
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NRDC in ActionFighting the Tide of Watered Down Justice
Nearly three years after winning a $97 million legal settlement that required the city of Flint to replace its lead water service lines, NRDC is still on the ground holding officials accountable, and using similar tactics as we demand clean water for the residents of Newark.
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Southwest DispatchSan Antonio Finds the Key to Flood Control in Its Gardens
As climate change brings heavier rains, local officials and developers are managing the deluge of stormwater runoff with some low-tech—and pretty—solutions.
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Blog PostU.S. Buyers of Canada’s Boreal Wood: You’ve Been Had, Finds New Report
New report by Canadian NGO Wildlands League finds deforestation rates in Ontario are fifty times higher than reported by government officials.
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Blog PostTrump Continues Pushing for Needless Bird Deaths
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to propose a rule embracing Trump administration rollbacks of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act’s essential protections for birds.
