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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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Health on Center Stage in House Climate Crisis Action Plan
The House Climate Crisis Action Plan is a clear-eyed recognition of the need to address the present-day health harms of climate change.
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Congress Must Act to Avoid Deepening the Eviction Crisis
As parts of the country begin to open up again, eviction moratoriums are being lifted or will be allowed to expire—and threaten to plunge millions of vulnerable U.S. households into homelessness.
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NRDC Responds to COVID-19
This unprecedented public health crisis requires bold, equitable, science-based action.
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Trump Takes Moment of National Crisis to Give Polluters an Unprecedented Pass
Amid widespread racist violence and a deadly pandemic, the president has chosen to sidestep bedrock environmental laws that protect the environment and public health.
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Protecting Farmworkers Is Paramount for our Food Supplies
People laboring to get food from farm to fridge deserve basic workplace protections and equitable access to healthcare.
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The Fight for Equitable Access to Water and Electricity Has Never Been More Urgent
In the midst of a pandemic, NRDC advocates are stepping up their work to prevent the risk of mass utility shutoffs, now and for the long-term.
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Clean Energy Can Get Our Economy Humming Again
The investments we make to recover from the current public health crisis should set us up to be better prepared to weather the next.
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Urban Innovator
Through her work in the buildings sector, Wendy Lee helps propel cities into a fairer and more energy-efficient future.
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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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Science SpotlightClimate Change Is Drying Out the American West
A new study shows that drought is no longer a periodic crisis, but a harbinger of things to come.
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Blog PostPipeline Victories Show the Power of People
These victories happened because people demanded better—and because of environmental and public health laws that require the government to listen.
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Southeast DispatchAlabama’s Waterways, Wildlife, and Recreation Are Up a Creek with Trump’s “Dirty Water Rule”
The rollback jeopardizes the streams that flow into the state’s rivers, lakes, and bays, millions of acres of wetlands across the country, and the drinking water supply.
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Blog PostLike a Zombie, Reckless Pebble Mine Terrorizes Bristol Bay
Widely considered dead, massive mining scheme proposed for Bristol Bay headwaters by underfunded Canadian company is likely to be permitted this summer by Army Corps of Engineers despite unsolved technical, financial, and environmental flaws, deep opposition in Alaska, and blatant racial and social injustice.
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PerspectivesPublic Transit Just Helped Save America. Now America Needs to Return the Favor.
The Moving Forward Act could put more than $100 billion into our ailing bus, subway, and train infrastructure—promoting equity and strengthening public safety along the way.
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NRDC in ActionThe City Insider Proving that Mayors Can Lead on Climate
Chris Wheat, who helped make Chicago a greener place from inside its city hall, is now helping empower city governments across the country to realize their many climate ambitions.
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VictoryThe Revitalization of This Former Coal Town Starts Now
Following a landmark settlement agreement, $8.6 million will be invested back into projects that uplift the community of Peoria, Illinois, where a dirty coal plant is scheduled to close by the end of 2022.
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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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Blog PostDevelopers Abandon the Atlantic Coast Pipeline for Good
The decision is a landmark win for those who saw the polluting project as a threat to waterways, wildlife, the climate, and vulnerable communities.
