Building a Healthy & Equitable California

Environment, health, and justice groups are looking for the Governor and Legislature to ensure California's transportation investments match its lofty climate goals. 

A new report from the California Strategic Growth Council calls for the urgent need to shift the state’s transportation funding priorities away from highways and towards sustainable mobility.

Replacing dirty trucks with electric versions will enable the state to reach its climate action goals on time.

In a groundbreaking win, CARB adopted the world’s first zero-emission commercial truck requirement, the Advanced Clean Trucks rule. The rule will cut toxic fossil fuel emissions in polluted communities throughout California.

Deliberate policies are needed to ensure priority communities have access to these high-paying, upwardly mobile careers.

California, a global leader in electric vehicle deployment and policy innovation, presented plans today for the next round of its Advanced Clean Cars program. It will require all new vehicles to be electric-drive by 2035.

Our decisionmakers need to think long-term and tie economic recovery with support for our small- and mid-sized farmers, our essential workers, and climate-smart agriculture programs.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed AB 2146, a bill that would have prohibited harmful and unnecessary non-agricultural uses of neonic pesticides. But the Governor has tasked the Department of Pesticide Regulation with a review of these home and garden neonic uses, beginning in 2023.

In Central California, small ranches and farms are growing their connections—to the land, to the past, and to each other.

Even the most casual observer recognizes that a long-delayed reckoning is coming on the Colorado River.

The inequity of this system has not diminished since the time it emerged—but rather, is glaringly apparent in times of drought.

California has the power to lead, but must raise ambition.

The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, over the 101 Freeway in western Los Angeles County, is the world’s largest wildlife crossing. But why does habitat connectivity matter?

Though isolated populations have rebounded since the 1970s, the once ubiquitous species is far from fully recovered.

We hope you’ll join us in telling the Newsom Administration that you value California’s natural resources and want to see them better protected and restored. 

NRDC conducted in-depth research on “chemical recycling” facilities in the United States. What we found led us to conclude that “chemical recycling” is a dangerous false solution to the growing plastic waste crisis—and it shouldn’t be considered recycling.

Managing the risk of these “forever chemicals” has focused primarily on one chemical—out of thousands—at a time. It doesn’t work, so we must change this system to protect public health.

Los Angeles passed a policy directing new buildings to be constructed to use all-electric energy, a critical action to achieving LA’s community-driven building decarbonization goals.

As 2022 comes to a close, Los Angeles is ending the year with notable progress on energy justice and building decarbonization, with plans for more in 2023.

From farms to public hearings, the women of Líderes Campesinas are standing up against the pesticide exposure, COVID-19 risk, and other threats disproportionately impacting their community.

The bold move will protect children's health in the state and across the country—as well as get the ball rolling for other states to follow suit.