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Not Cool: How the EPA’s Refrigerant Rollback Will Raise Your Grocery and AC Costs

Expert BlogUnited StatesDavid Doniger, Dr. Richie Kaur, Jeremy Arling
NRDC and industry are suing over cost-raising delays in moving away from HFC super pollutants in supermarkets and cold storage warehouses.
A protester holds up a sign at a Stand up For Science rally held at Washington Square Park in Manhattan, New York City, on March 7, 2025.

Political Control of Research Funding Threatens Sound Science

Expert BlogUnited States
Decades of federal research funding have led to breakthroughs in medicine, technology, and environmental science. A new OMB proposal aims to derail all of this through political interference.
Brad Smith, president of Microsoft Corporation, speaks during a climate initiative event at the Microsoft Corp. campus in Redmond, Washington, on January 16, 2020. Microsoft unveiled plans to invest $1 billion to back companies and organizations working on technologies to remove or reduce carbon from the earth's atmosphere, saying efforts to merely emit less carbon aren't enough to prevent catastrophic climate change.

The Carbon Removal Market Can Work—If We Build It Right

Expert BlogUnited StatesSam F. Savitz, Dr. Jennifer DiStefano
The CDR industry’s reliance on Microsoft shows the limits of voluntary climate action—and the need for government to do its part. It’s time to take the trash out of our atmosphere.
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EPA Must Reassess the Risks of Glyphosate: 3 Things to Know

Expert BlogUnited StatesLucas Rhoads

In a victory for monarchs, ecosystems, and the countless people across the country regularly exposed to harmful glyphosate products, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down the EPA's reapproval of this common herbicide. 

“Back Bristol Bay” Full Page Ads Launch

Expert BlogAlaskaTaryn Kiekow Heimer

A broad-based coalition of groups representing millions of supporters are running full-page ads urging the public to support EPA action to protect Bristol Bay from the proposed Pebble Mine. 

Stopping Pebble Mine: Fund Pedro Bay Rivers Conservation Now

Expert BlogAlaskaJoel Reynolds

Funding deadline looms for agreement between Alaska Native village corporation and two land conservation organizations to protect 44,000 acres of salmon habitat in Upper Bristol Bay, blocking access corridor needed for widely condemned mine.

Stopping Pebble Mine: It’s the Science, Stupid

Expert BlogAlaskaJoel Reynolds

Wall Street Journal attack on EPA’s proposed protections for Bristol Bay is high on rhetoric, wrong on the facts, and ignores comprehensive scientific record showing unacceptable adverse effects from widely condemned gold and copper mine proposed for Bristol Bay headwaters.

Experts Advise Administration on Right Whale Entanglement

Expert BlogUnited StatesDr. Francine Kershaw
Recent estimates indicate that a staggering 31.4 North Atlantic right whales were killed on average each year between 2015 and 2019—70 percent of these deaths are attributable to entanglement.

Canada Rewards Ontario’s Failure to Protect Caribou

Expert BlogCanadaCourtenay Lewis
Canada needs to course correct if it wants a global reputation as a steward of forests and threatened species. This means using its authority to protect species, not greenlighting more habitat destruction.

Restoring Riverscapes and Beavers in the West

Expert BlogWestAmy McNamara
BLM has a ripe opportunity to dramatically increase the health of its landscapes by managing its riverscapes as a critical piece of natural infrastructure.

Wildlife Recovery Funding Moves Forward

Expert BlogUnited StatesAmy McNamara, Katie Hobbs
The Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (RAWA) is a once-in-a-generation, bipartisan opportunity for America to invest deeply in halting the biodiversity crisis.

UPDATED: EPA Can't Ignore Neonics’ Impacts on Imperiled Species

Expert BlogUnited StatesLucas Rhoads
NRDC and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have entered into a settlement agreement requiring EPA to evaluate the impacts of bee-killing neonicotinoid insecticides on species listed as threatened or endangered.

Offshore Wind Done Right

Expert BlogUnited States, EastAlison Chase

We must advance offshore wind with the protections necessary to allow imperiled North Atlantic right whales to feed and migrate undisturbed.

IUCN Misses the Mark on Diseases from Wildlife Trade

Expert BlogInternationalPaul Todd

A new study highlights the need to prevent disease outbreaks before they start, while the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) makes a dangerous case for business as usual.

Congress Introduces Bill to Protect Right Whales

Expert BlogUnited StatesDr. Francine Kershaw, Valerie Cleland

The SAVE Right Whales Act comes at a pivotal point in the fight to save the right whale from extinction. Right whales have been experiencing a precipitous decline since 2010 and fewer than 340 whales now remain.