Expert Blogs

As a deadly heat wave blankets parts of the country, it's more important than ever that states prepare for such extreme weather hazards.

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

Leading South Asian organizations are joining forces to address the mounting health toll of extreme heat. 

The law standardizes food date labeling and helps prevent food waste across the state.

New commentary highlights the need to stop ignoring the potential for PFAS to disrupt breastfeeding.

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.

This is why Amigo LNG is the wrong fit for the Gulf of California.

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

California is re-evaluating how to more equitably reduce the catastrophic wildfire risk that’s driving up electricity bills and insurance premiums.

A half century of progress has been made toward abundant fisheries and thriving coastal communities, but there is still much work ahead.

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.

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

NRDC’s second-annual Global Heat & Cooling Forum (GHCF), held in New Delhi on April 20–21, 2026, convened global experts to shape an agenda for keeping people cooler as global temperatures rise.

AB 2447, the Nitrogen Pollution Reduction Act, would require the state to protect clean water for people and ecosystems by reducing excess nitrogen from irrigated agriculture.

Calling the decision a major step forward, project opponents hail the end of one of three major liquefied natural gas terminals threatening the iconic biodiversity of the Gulf of California.