Expert Blogs

The Trump administration is proposing to strip away multiple critical protections, weakening financial, environmental, and public accountability for the oil and gas industry. 

Two years ago, BLM modernized its strategies for conserving water, wildlife, and other natural resources—the Trump administration is jettisoning them to advance its dirty energy program.

From aggressively expanding offshore drilling to reversing protections for U.S. coasts, waters, and wildlife, pro-polluters are putting the country at greater risk of the next catastrophic oil spill.

As more and more of our forests face threats from industry and the Trump administration, it’s critical to protect the Roadless Area Conservation Rule.

SB26-065, the SEED Act, would reduce the number one source of neonic pesticide pollution in the state by eliminating unnecessary seed coatings.

Such a move would increase government subsidies to fossil fuel companies while threatening wildlife habitat, recreational areas, and people's health.

A new report shows that the true costs of plastic are far more than what you see on the price tag.

Eliminating unnecessary uses of toxic insecticides is the next step.

Rescinding the Roadless Rule would open vast swaths of protected national forests to logging and roadbuilding, threatening the country’s last remaining wildlands.

NRDC and the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy are suing the state to stop harmful, unnecessary pesticide pollution.

As we head into National Ocean Month, this is a key moment to take stock of policies to combat the global illegal fishing crisis and the terrible costs it exacts.

The legislature has a crucial opportunity to pass bills to protect people and pollinators from needless pesticide use.

A new report documents widespread “neonic” pesticide contamination in Minnesota waters, with dire implications for aquatic life.

California could become the first state to regulate pesticide-treated seeds, a massive and largely unchecked source of widespread pesticide pollution. 

The U.S. EPA released analyses showing that two neonic pesticides pose grave risks to imperiled species, rounding out EPA's review of the five neonics. 

Court orders Interior Department to redo analysis of Alaska offshore oil and gas lease effects.

The Vermont legislature enacted a bill curbing the use of bee-toxic neonic pesticides on the first day of Pollinator Week.