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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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Confronting the President’s Agenda of Hate
The principles that call us to protect human health and the environment from polluters impel us no less to stand up for inclusion and decency in our civic life.
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Adjusting A/C and Other Energy Use Saves Lives
Energy efficiency supports climate, air quality, and public health goals.
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NRDC Takes EPA to Court—Again—to Protect Children’s Health
The agency’s own scientists concluded that chlorpyrifos harms developing brains—but the Trump administration still refuses to ban it.
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Trump Watch
NRDC tracks the Trump administration’s assaults on the environment.
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NRDC Goes to Court to Challenge Dirty Power Scheme
The Trump administration’s do-nothing plan for addressing the climate crisis not only fails to reduce planet-warming emissions, but it also breaks the law.
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Confused by Food Date Labels? Congress Aims to Set Them Straight.
The legislation would reduce food waste (and its steep environmental toll) by keeping perfectly good food out of the trash.
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As Scientists Warn of Biodiversity Crisis, Trump Administration Guts Endangered Species Act
The bedrock conservation law saves 99 percent of the plants and animals it protects—and we need it now more than ever.
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Our Land Is Key to Solving the Climate Crisis
Food insecurity, biodiversity collapse, and skyrocketing global temps loom. But a new U.N. report says we have the tools to fix it.
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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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Blog PostFactory Butte Should Stay Off-Limits to Off-Roading
NRDC and the Southern Utah Wilderness Association are suing the BLM for ignoring the environmental harms of off-road vehicle use around the iconic Utah landmark.
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Western DispatchIn Los Angeles, Renters Want Their Own Green New Deal
Residents of the city’s affordable housing units don’t normally get prioritized for energy efficiency upgrades. That’s about to change.
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NRDC in ActionLivestock and Predators Can Coexist
NRDC has long collaborated with regional partners, including ranchers, to promote nonlethal methods as an effective alternative to the needless cycles of conflict and killing.
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NRDC in ActionAs Temperatures Soar in India, One City’s Efforts Are Saving Lives
The western city of Ahmedabad is preparing residents to cope with the longer and more intense heat waves sweeping across South Asia—and inspiring other Indian cities and states to follow suit.
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Blog PostBears Ears: A Monument in Name Only
This newest management plan released by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) spells out how the remaining 200,000 acres of the monument will be governed. The changes are so sweeping, what currently is known as the Bears Ears National Monument is rendered a monument in name only.
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Blog PostNew York Takes Two Major Leaps Forward in Climate Change Fight
Governor Cuomo signs an ambitious climate bill into law and ramps up the state’s clean energy plan.
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Western DispatchValley Fever Spreads in California as Winter Rainstorms Intensify and Summers Heat Up
From dusty fields in the San Joaquin Valley, fungal spores are wafting up, exposing more and more farmworkers to the disease.
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Southeast DispatchClimate Change Sank My Battleship?
The USS North Carolina survived World War II, but now its captain’s mission is to protect it from storm surges and sea level rise.
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Midwest DispatchAfter a Century of Being Dammed Up, Illinois Rivers Get to Go With the Flow
Dam removals are setting rapids and fish populations free and keeping swimmers and boaters safer.
