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Obama Administration Calls for Major Course Correction in U.S. Lands Conservation

April 19, 2016 Press Release

Obama Administration Floating Bold Idea to Reduce Transportation Pollution

April 18, 2016 Press Release

FEMA’s Flood Insurance Program Must Do a Better Job of Protecting the Environment, Federal Assessment Finds

April 14, 2016 Press Release

PORTLAND, OR (April 14, 2016) – The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) today released a biological opinion for the state of Oregon concluding that the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) implementation of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) leads to…

Administration Uses Antiquities Act to Preserve Key Women’s History Landmark

April 12, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON (April 11, 2016) – President Obama today designated as a national monument a historic landmark central to the women’s rights movement. The Sewall-Belmont House & Museum in Washington, D.C. was the home of Alice Paul, leader of the National…

NRDC, Greenpeace Canada Urge Quebec to Reject Logging Roads in Boreal Forest’s Broadback Valley Forest

March 30, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON (March 30, 2016) – The Natural Resources Defense Council and Greenpeace Canada today called on the Quebec government to reject a bid by logging companies to build nearly 50 miles of access roads into the heart of Canada’s Broadback…

Mexico Should Adopt Overdue Heavy-Duty Vehicle Emissions Standards

March 29, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON (March 29, 2016) – Leading U.S. and Mexico clean air and health advocates today urged the Mexican government to stand up to polluters and finalize long-delayed heavy-duty vehicle emissions standards, critically needed to address the country’s harmful air pollution…

Court Leaves Rules in Place that Protect Tongass Rainforest Wildlands from Damaging Logging, Road Construction

March 28, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 28, 2015) – The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to hear a last-ditch effort by the State of Alaska to exempt America’s largest national forest from a national rule protecting undeveloped, road-free national forest areas from logging…

Obama Administration Excludes Atlantic from Oil, Gas Drilling

March 15, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON (March 15, 2016) – The Obama Administration this morning announced plans to exclude the waters off the Atlantic coast from oil and gas drilling.

What is Driving Consumer Demand for Rhino Horn?

March 7, 2016 Press ReleaseChina

NEW YORK (March 7, 2016) — The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) today released a ground-breaking survey that outlines – for the first time – the potential impact of Chinese consumers and proposals to legalize trade in farmed rhino horns…

Icelandic Whaling Remains Target At Boston Seafood Expo

March 3, 2016 Press Release

BOSTON (March 3, 2016) — Members of the “Don’t Buy from Icelandic Whalers” coalition have affirmed that their campaign will continue until Iceland permanently ends commercial whaling and international trading of whale products, despite breaking news that Icelandic whaling company…

New Report Reveals Thriving Undocumented Ivory Market in Hawaii

March 3, 2016 Press Release

HONOLULU (March 3, 2016) —The online trade in ivory and related wildlife products is rampant in Hawaii, which remains one of the United States’ major markets for ivory, according to a new report by the International Fund for Animal Welfare(IFAW)…

Yellowstone Grizzly Bears: Not Time to Declare Victory

March 3, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON, DC (March 3, 2016) - Today, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service declared that the Yellowstone population of grizzly bears is recovered and no longer needs the protections of the Endangered Species Act.

Monarch Numbers Improve, But Butterflies Aren’t Out of the Woods Yet

February 26, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON, DC (February 26, 2016) – The population of monarch butterflies overwintering in the Mexican forests of Michoacan has increased three and half times to approximately150 million butterflies.

NRDC Sues EPA to Force it to Limit Toxic Chemical in Drinking Water

February 18, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON (February 18, 2016) – The Natural Resources Defense Council sued the Environmental Protection Agency in federal court in New York today to force it to set limits on perchlorate.

After More Than 40 Years, EPA Will Act on Hazardous Industrial Spills

February 17, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON (February 17, 2016) – The Environmental Protection Agency will put in place new safeguards to help protect communities from dangerous chemical spills at tens of thousands of industrial facilities nationwide, under the terms of a legal settlement approved by…

Designating New Monuments in California Desert is Smart Conservation Move

February 12, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON (February 12, 2016) – President Obama today announced he is designating three new national monuments in the California desert – Mojave Trails near the Kelso ghost town, Sand to Snow near Yucca Valley, and Castle Mountains northwest of Needles.

Obama Budget Sets Priorities to Continue Progress

February 9, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON (February 9, 2016) – President Obama today submitted a budget proposal that would double funding for clean energy research, create a $1.65 billion fund for infrastructure projects to lessen the impacts wrought by climate change, impose a $10-per-barrel tax…

Obama’s Plan to Increase Transportation Investments also is Good for Climate

February 4, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON (February 4, 2016) -- President Obama in his budget proposal next week will propose increased U.S. investments in public transit, high-speed rail and a new generation of energy-efficient cars, trucks and aircraft, to be paid for with a $10-per-barrel…

Flint Hearing Most Notable for Key Absences

February 3, 2016 Press ReleaseNew York

NEW YORK (February 3, 2016) – The U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a hearing today to explore the Flint water crisis.

A Fix for Flint: Groups File Federal Lawsuit to Secure Safe Drinking Water in Flint

January 27, 2016 Press Release

FLINT, Mich. – A coalition of local citizens and national groups filed suit today seeking federal court intervention to secure access to safe drinking water for the people of Flint, Michigan.