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The EPA’s proposed Risk Management Program revisions roll back crucial safeguards against chemical disasters for people living near and working in industrial facilities. 

States must once again lead on climate solutions in the face of a challenging federal landscape.

A new appeal aims to block an industrial-scale wood pellet plant poised to harm air quality, forests, and wildlife.

The data center pressures seen in the United States and Europe are likely to spread as digital infrastructure expands worldwide. Countries need guardrails to avoid fossil lock-in, protect communities, and keep costs from rising.

Deregulating pyrolysis incinerators would only result in more toxic facilities and hazardous air emissions—all in the name of false solutions to the plastic pollution crisis.

The state legislature leads the way with new health and environmental bills.

In its radical denial of settled climate change science, the Trump administration’s EPA is also ignoring mounting costs to human health and safety.

The hundreds of millions of dollars that gas utilities plan to spend to replace gas pipelines could instead go toward helping customers transition to clean energy—all while cutting bills.

Residents of the communities surrounding warehouses that use dangerous chemicals to kill pests are standing up to demand transparency and protection from the toxic fumes.

Companies and trade associations are telling the EPA that it’s going too far.

The California legislature passed a package of climate action bills as the Trump administration backslides on federal commitments.

The Trump administration is moving to save corporations money at the expense of public health and air quality.  

The House Energy and Water Development bill will cut what works.

NRDC releases informational cards that seek to hold the LNG industry in the U.S. accountable.

Manufactured homes provide affordable housing for more than one million Californians, yet they disproportionately rely on fossil fuel heating. Expanding access to electrification is a matter of climate action, public health, and housing justice.

People in Michigan and across the Midwest will be stuck paying the cost of a nonexistent “emergency” with their health and their electric bills. 

The New York Healthy Homes Right to Know Act would require signage and labels that detail the health risks of using a gas stove.

This bill will create a rebate program for residents and companies changing from gasoline-driven mowers and leaf blowers to electric-battery driven ones.