President Biden's Climate Order and Clean Water
As many of my colleagues have written over the last several days, there is much to like in President Biden’s January 27 th executive order titled “Tackling the...
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NRDC and Partners Sue to Stop the Dirty Water Rule
The Trump administration’s Navigable Waters Protection Rule ignores scientific evidence and endangers the health of our water bodies. ...
Trump’s Dirty Water Rule: EPA Ignorance is Polluters’ Bliss
On January 23, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers unveiled a regulation that dramatically restricts what kinds of water bodies...
EPA Flunks Science 101 With Its Dirty Water Rule
The Trump administration’s rollback of the Clean Water Act introduces substantial new risks to human and environmental health—and ignores piles of scientifi...
How the Clean Water Act Can Combat Harmful Algal Blooms
NRDC just released two analyses that look at how state water pollution control and public health officials deal with one of the most significant causes of...
Fifty Years After 1969: How Far Have We Come?
This week in 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts traveled to and walked on the moon. That same year, the Stonewall Uprising galvanized a civil rights movement that conti...