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White House Watch: Tracking Attacks on Our Environment & Health

OverviewUnited States
Since the Trump administration took office in January 2025, it has taken or proposed at least 480 actions that directly threaten the environment, climate, and human health. NRDC is tracking the mounting hazard and harm.
An aerial view of homes destroyed by wildfire in Santa Rosa, California, on October 14, 2017.

An Uninsurable Country

ReportUnited StatesRob Moore
States must take action to fend off the looming home insurability crisis.
An Antero Resources fracking rig near homes in Beaver, Ohio, in May 2017.

How States Stack Up on Oil and Gas Regulation

ReportUnited StatesAmy Mall
A new NRDC report reviewed regulations in the 12 largest oil- and gas-producing states and found that states are not consistently stepping up to fill regulatory gaps and protect communities.
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What Is the Keystone XL Pipeline?

GuideNorth Dakota, Alberta, Montana, South Dakota, NebraskaMelissa Denchak, Courtney Lindwall
How a single pipeline project became the epicenter of an enormous environmental, public health, and civil rights battle.

Paris Climate Agreement: Everything You Need to Know

GuideInternationalMelissa Denchak, Shelia Hu
The Paris Agreement charted a new course in the effort to combat global climate change, requiring countries to make commitments and progressively strengthen them. Here’s what the accord seeks to achieve, and why our future may depend on its success.

NRDC Letter to Congress on the Disaster Supplemental Appropriation

Letters
NRDC provided Congress with our recommendations and funding priorities for inclusion in the disaster supplemental now being assembled. These recommendations reflect NRDC’s climate adaptation priorities and the growing need for the nation to invest in efforts to address the mounting...

The BECCS Hoax

ReportUnited KingdomMatt Williams, Elly Pepper

Using bioenergy with carbon capture and storage is a bad bet for the United Kingdom’s new zero-carbon goal.

Renewable Rikers Coalition Comment - Rikers Title V Facility

Comments
We recently submitted these comments as part of the Renewable Rikers Coalition, urging the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to deny a potentially harmful air emissions permit for the facility that supplies power to the jail complex...

Selling the World’s Forests

ReportUnited States, InternationalAshley Jordan

For retailers, selling the world’s forests is risky business.

Cleaner Cars, Fatter Wallets

Issue BriefUnited StatesLuke Tonachel

The current U.S. clean vehicles policy package will deliver climate, health, and economic benefits for all.