A Victory for Cleaner Fuels
On June 30, 2014, the last day of the 2013 term, the United States Supreme Court declined to hear the oil companies' and ethanol manufacturers' appeals in the...
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The latest opinion and analysis from NRDC’s science, legal, and policy experts.
A Step Forward For Public Interest Litigation In China
China recently amended its Environmental Protection Law, the first amendment since the law was enacted in 1989. My colleague Barbara Finamore has an overview...
Lead And Arsenic Pollution In East Los Angeles
A public hearing is scheduled to discuss how to clean up a chronically lead-contaminated site in East Los Angeles, home to thousands of working class, minority...
Exide Technologies Hearings Begin In Los Angeles
Exide Technologies runs a lead-acid recycling operation in Vernon, California that has been emitting lead and arsenic into the neighboring communities for many...
Don't Rebuild Jordan Downs On Polluted Soil
Jordan Downs is a 700-unit low-income housing complex in South Los Angeles . Originally constructed as housing units for returning WWII veterans, the...
SCAQMD Moves To Shut Down Lead Smelter Exide
Exide Technologies is a lead-acid battery recycling company in Vernon, California, with a history of air pollution and soil pollution problems. Exide has been...