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My mom has been applying for Chicago’s Equity Lead Service Line Replacement Program for the past two years. In response, she’s gotten nothing but rejections after jumping through hundreds of hoops.

Los Angeles County and the City of Los Angeles are poised to make pivotal decisions to protect the health and safety of Angelenos from dirty fossil fuels.

California’s 2022 budget is finalized and it contains significant investments in climate friendly agriculture, soil health, on-farm water efficiency, farmworker housing, wildfire prevention, and so much more.

The Senate gave the green light today for the U.S. to ratify the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, the most effective environmental treaty ever. Kigali is a global agreement to phase down potent climate pollutants known as hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)…

LA's Climate Emergency Mobilization Commission approved the city's report on equitable building decarbonization community priorities and sent the report to City Council.

The EPA is responsible for setting environmental regulations to limit the amount of pollution industrial facilities release. This approach has been ineffective in controlling exposures because they do not take into account the cumulative impacts or toxic air contaminants.

Two years to the day since release of the infamous Pebble Tapes, and after a decade of scientific review by federal agencies, desperate Canadian owner of proposed massive Bristol Bay open pit mine remains in denial, claiming EPA proposal to…

The singular focus on GHGs related to insulation fails to account for other harmful emissions associated with the life cycle of these materials, including toxic pollution that disproportionately burdens Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC), and/or low-income communities

Climate change has some paying a price they can't afford, for a crisis they didn’t cause.

Buildings are a major cause of greenhouse gas emissions. But until now there has not been a standard to measure and manage emission reductions. RESNET has issued a new standard to measure a building’s emissions accurately. The standard accounts for…

Tribal representatives, commercial fishermen, restauranteurs, and conservation groups—including NRDC—are meeting with the Biden Administration and Members of Congress urging them to finalize Clean Water Act protections for Bristol Bay by the end of 2022.

Preventing food waste is the highest impact solution among Project Drawdown's solutions to keep temperature rise to 2°C by 2100. We need significant acceleration to reach the national goal to reduce food loss and waste by 50 percent by 2030. 

Climate justice begins when we recognize the adverse effects of extreme weather to our communities and the world and advocate to mitigate those costs and damage to us all.