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Clean Energy Now for a Safer Climate Future

ReportUnited StatesJacqueline Ennis, Amanda Levin
Pathways to net zero in the United States by 2050

The EPA’s Power Plant Carbon Rules Can Be Built to Last

Issue BriefUnited StatesLissa Lynch, David Doniger
The EPA has a firm legal basis for strong power sector standards that will accelerate the sector’s ongoing reduction of carbon pollution and help meet the urgent threat of climate change

Tapping the Power of Wetlands to Secure a Thriving Planet

Issue BriefUnited StatesKate Poole
Even though wetlands cover only about 5 percent of the land in the coterminous United States, they support nearly half of all species federally listed as threatened or endangered, harbor more than 30 percent of plant species, and provide essential…

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FEMA Oregon NFIP Draft RPA 3.9.2015.pdf

Letters
Draft Reasonable and Prudent Alternative and Incidental Take Statement for our Biological Opinion on Implementation of the National Flood Insurance Program in the State of Oregon

U.S. Court of International Trade Final Order (PDF)

Legal filings
Opinion and order from Judge Katzmann granting NRDC et al. request to dismiss vaquita lawsuit following U.S. government embargo of certain gillnet fisheries that threaten the species' existence.

Ninth Circuit Decision, 2020 (PDF)

Legal filings
Ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ordering the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take action on NRDC’s petition to ban the last residential use of tetrachlorvinphos (TCVP), an organophosphate pesticide used in household pet products...

Complaint - District of Massachusetts (PDF)

Legal filings
NRDC and coalition partners filed a lawsuit today in federal court to block the Trump administration’s unlawful move to gut protections for many of America’s streams and wetlands. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District...

Amicus Brief in New Hampshire PFAS Case (PDF)

Legal filings
In 2019, New Hampshire issued rules regulating four Per- and polyfluoroalkyl in the state’s drinking water and groundwater. 3M has produced these dangerous chemicals for years and is now challenging the new rules. Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) and NRDC (Natural...

Appendix to Amicus Brief (PDF)

Legal filings
In 2019, New Hampshire issued rules regulating four Per- and polyfluoroalkyl in the state’s drinking water and groundwater. 3M has produced these dangerous chemicals for years and is now challenging the new rules. Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) and NRDC (Natural...

Complaint Filed by NRDC and Partners in River Herring Litigation (PDF)

Legal filings
NRDC and partners filed a lawsuit today in federal court in the District of Columbia alleging that the National Marine Fisheries Service violated the Endangered Species Act and the Administrative Procedure Act when it declined, in 2019, to list alewife...

Petition to Revoke All Tolerances for Neonic Insecticides on Food (PDF)

Statement
NRDC submitted this petition to demand that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency revoke tolerances for neonicotinoid insecticides (“neonics”) on food, which would eliminate major sources of public exposure to these neurotoxic chemicals. NRDC presents research showing that current levels of...

End Wildlife Trade: An Action Plan to Prevent Future Pandemics (PDF)

Suspected to have originated in a wildlife market, COVID-19 has made it painfully clear: wildlife trade is an overwhelming threat to global public health. If we wish to avoid future zoonotic pandemics (i.e., pandemics caused by human interactions with wildlife)...

EDF v Owens (PDF)

Legal filings
NRDC and 11 other environmental groups filed lawsuits today against the Trump administration for its illegal rollback of clean car and fuel economy standards. The administration’s rule is based on massive technical and economic errors – and fails to meet...

NRDC v Wheeler (PDF)

Legal filings
NRDC and 11 other environmental groups filed lawsuits today against the Trump administration for its illegal rollback of clean car and fuel economy standards. The administration’s rule is based on massive technical and economic errors – and fails to meet...