Conservation, Clean Energy and Climate Leadership
Climate change is happening now and the stakes couldn't be higher. NASA declared July 2016 the hottest month on record globally, and Californians are living...
Expert Blog
The latest opinion and analysis from NRDC’s science, legal, and policy experts.
A Big Step Forward for Conservation and Clean Energy
Today, when the Department of the Interior released the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the public land component of the long-awaited Desert...
Progress on Smart from the Start Solar in California and Nevada
There's been some good progress in recent weeks in striking the right balance between developing much needed clean energy and protecting the West's wildlands...
BLM Rejects a Poorly Sited Solar Project in the California Desert -- A Good Move for Smart from the Start Planning
Last week, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in California denied an application for a large scale solar project in the Mojave Desert’s Silurian Valley near...
A landmark plan for conservation and renewable energy
Today, when the Department of Interior and the California Department of Natural Resources released a draft of the long-awaited Desert Renewable Energy...
The End of The Calico Project
NRDC won a great victory this week in our work to ensure that utility scale renewable energy development takes place on appropriate places when the Bureau of...