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States Can Act Now to Create Workplace Heat Standards

BackgrounderUnited StatesJuanita Constible
There are several pathways to heat standards, which vary by the different buckets of state plan states and territories.

House Transportation Bill Would Stick Americans With New Fees, Higher Costs

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee released legislation that would set priorities and funding for federally funded transportation over the next five years.

EPA Seeks to Gut PFAS Protections, Leaving Millions Exposed to Toxic Forever Chemicals in Tap Water

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed to eliminate key current standards set to protect people from unsafe levels of PFAS “forever chemicals” in drinking water, reversing legal protections adopted in 2024. Additionally, the EPA has reversed course and stopped…

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Supreme Court Reaffirms EPA Authority to Curb Power Plant Carbon Pollution

Press Release
WASHINGTON (June 23, 2014) — Building on two prior decisions affirming the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to set carbon pollution standards like those recently proposed for power plants, the Supreme Court today upheld the core of EPA’s associated permitting requirements…

NRDC Poll: Latinos want the government to protect water from pollution

Press Release
WASHINGTON (June 23, 2014)— As Senate Republicans try to kill recent steps by the Environmental Protection Agency to protect water supplies, a new poll finds that Latinos in four states overwhelmingly want the federal government to keep our water safe…

Four Million Californians at Risk from Oil Train Danger Zones

Press ReleaseCalifornia
SAN FRANCISCO (June 18, 2014) – A series of detailed crude oil rail route maps, released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), show nearly four million Bay Area and Central/San Joaquin Valley residents are at risk should an…

Senate Panel’s Keystone XL Measure about Politics and Bad Policy

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WASHINGTON (June 18, 2014) — The Senate Energy Committee today considered yet another political ploy by some in Congress to force construction of the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, which will worsen climate change and jeopardize communities along its…

Clothes Dryers Cost Consumers Up to $4 Billion in Annual Energy Waste

Press ReleaseCalifornia
SAN FRANCISCO (June 12, 2014) – The clothes dryers in U.S. homes are wasting up to $4 billion worth of electricity annually because energy-saving standards for the common appliance have not been significantly updated for almost 30 years, according to…

NRDC Celebrates Sustainable Food Movement at L.A. Benefit

Press ReleaseCalifornia
LOS ANGELES (May 29, 2014) – The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) celebrates the growth of the safe and sustainable food movement tonight at a one‐of‐a‐kind benefit featuring the work of the organization’s food and agriculture program.

Door Slammed On McConnell’s Anti-Climate Move

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WASHINGTON (May 29, 2014)—The Government Accountability Office ruled against Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s threat to block the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed pollution standards for future power plants, finding that Congress can’t act until the agency issues a final rule.

Governor Christie Trying to Double Down on Climate Inaction

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TRENTON (May 27, 2014) — The Christie Administration has announced its intention to once again try to stop New Jersey from participating in a regional program that limits dangerous climate-changing pollution from power plants, despite the New Jersey legislature twice…

EPA Must Require Full Disclosure of Fracking Chemicals

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WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 9, 2014) – The Environmental Protection Agency today announced it will solicit comments from the public regarding whether it should require chemical manufacturers to reveal basic information about the dangerous chemicals used in fracking around the country.

National Climate Assessment Highlights Urgent Need to Cut Carbon Pollution

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WASHINGTON (May 6, 2014) – The third National Climate Assessment today documents the alarming extent to which climate change already is adversely impacting Americans all across the country, underlining anew the important opportunities we have today to take strong action…