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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Demand Climate Action
Let's build a brighter, healthier, more just future together.
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Biden Administration Starts to Restore Protections for Alaska’s Tongass National Forest
The move would reverse one of Trump’s numerous environmental rollbacks, which had opened half of this pristine wilderness to industry.
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Salmon: A Natural Climate Solution
We must not forget our dependence on the biodiversity that makes this planet livable. After all, these fish grow the forests.
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Victory! Court Orders the EPA to Finalize a Ban on Chlorpyrifos
The agency broke the law by continuing to allow use of the toxic pesticide despite scientific proof that the chemical harms children’s developing brains.
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When Asian Americans Are Missing from Public Health Data, It’s Harder to Protect Them
If science is the search for truth, then let’s get real by ensuring research actually represents who’s out there and what’s happening to them, from COVID-19 to climate change.
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A How-To Guide for Dismantling Trump’s Anti-Environment Legacy
Reversing the former president’s damage to U.S. environmental and public health policy is possible—but it’ll take some time.
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Cities: Time to Think Bigger on Climate
After four years of defunding and deregulation from the Trump White House, how can cities step up as climate leaders under a Biden administration?
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NRDC Responds to COVID-19
This unprecedented public health crisis requires bold, equitable, science-based action.
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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, ensured those laws are enforced, and held polluters accountable. We’ve got 50 years of wins to show for it.
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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Rockies Dispatch
Blackfeet Nation Is Taking Back the Food System
A tribal-led plan to build a meat-processing facility on the Blackfeet Nation reservation in Montana will help invigorate the local economy, safeguard cultural traditions, and protect community health and the environment.
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Southeast Dispatch
The Drinking Water Crisis That North Carolina Ignored
For decades, DuPont dumped toxic PFAS into the Cape Fear River. Today, a local community is suffering the health consequences—and fighting back.
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Blog Post
Illinois Takes a Major Step Toward Replacing Its Lead Service Lines
The Lead Service Line Replacement and Notification Act will put the health of Illinoisians first—particularly those who bear the brunt of toxic lead exposure.
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Explainer
The Electric Car Revolution Shouldn’t Leave Anyone Behind
A new program in St. Louis, Missouri, is bringing EVs and charging stations to low-income neighborhoods—and turning senior and disabled residents into early adopters, one ride at a time.
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Western Dispatch
An Oil Giant Is No Match for Resistance and Resilience in Richmond, California
How a small Laotian refugee community on San Francisco Bay took on Chevron, won—and keeps winning.
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Blog Post
Nevada Aims to Plug Vehicles into Renewable Energy
Nevada's legislature has passed a bill that would help the state drive on cleaner, cheaper electricity. If signed into law, the policy would speed the approval of transmission lines needed to move low-cost, renewable electricity across the region and would accelerate the deployment of cars, trucks, and buses fueled by that clean electricity.
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Blog Post
Chicago Officials Halt Permit Process for Move of General Iron’s Notorious Metal Shredding Operation to Southeast Side
This marks a major step forward in dismantling the environmental racism that has plagued the neighborhood for decades.
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Blog Post
Chance for a More Resilient and Equitable Food System in California
With AB 125, California has an opportunity to reshape our food and farming system to help protect workers in fields, kitchens, and grocery stores while providing our most vulnerable communities improved access to healthy, sustainably produced food.
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Northeast Dispatch
How Rikers Island Became a Vehicle for Justice (Once It Started Shutting Down)
The Renewable Rikers plan to reimagine the site of New York City’s notorious jail complex could bring green jobs, cleaner air, and community investment to the neighborhoods most harmed by mass incarceration.