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Petition to EPA Region 9 for Los Cerritos Channel (PDF)

Legal filings
American Rivers, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Los Angeles Waterkeeper petitioned Region 9 of the Environmental Protection Agency to make polluters accountable for stormwater runoff contamination of two Los Angeles waterways: the Dominguez Channel and the Los Cerritos Channel. Currently...

Petition to EPA Region 9 for Dominguez Channel (PDF)

Legal filings
American Rivers, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Los Angeles Waterkeeper petitioned Region 9 of the Environmental Protection Agency to make polluters accountable for stormwater runoff contamination of two Los Angeles waterways: the Dominguez Channel and the Los Cerritos Channel. Currently...

Motion to Enforce the Court Order on Chlorpyrifos - (PDF)

Legal filings
The Natural Resources Defense Council and Pesticide Action Network, represented in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit by Earthjustice, filed a motion to enforce a previous court order and require EPA to make a decision on a...

NGO Response to Holding CPP Litigation in Abeyance (PDF)

Legal filings
A response filed by Natural Resources Defense Council, Environmental Defense Fund, Earthjustice, Sierra Club, Center for Biological Diversity, and others opposing a Trump Administration request to hold a pending Clean Power Plan case in abeyance.

Suit Filed by NRDC to Protect Rusty Patched Bumblebee (PDF)

Legal filings
The Natural Resources Defense Council today sued the Trump Administration for illegally suspending the rule to put the rusty patched bumblebee on the endangered species list, just one day before federal protections were set to take effect. The rusty patched...

Environmental Threat List (PDF)

Overview
A list containing many of the programs, policies, and initiatives under threat by the Trump administration. Updated February 27, 2017.

Groups Oppose Regulatory Executive Order - Letter (PDF)

Letters
One hundred and thirty seven groups oppose President Trump’s deregulatory executive order. The executive order establishes a regulatory budget and requires two public safeguards to be revoked for each new one adopted.