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High Court Refuses Case on President’s Power to Create Monuments

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Supreme Court today declined to hear a case challenging the legality of establishing marine national monuments under the Antiquities Act. In a statement respecting the denial of certiorari, Chief Justice Roberts indicated that while the case potentially posed interesting…

Groups File Proposed Settlement in Penobscot River Mercury Clean-Up Case

Press ReleaseMaine
The Maine People’s Alliance (MPA), NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) and Mallinckrodt US LLC today filed a proposed consent decree to settle more than two decades of litigation over mercury contamination in the Penobscot River estuary. If approved by the…

Court Maintains Ban on Chemicals in Toys for Now

Press ReleaseUnited States
A federal appeals court has left in place the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) ban on harmful phthalate chemicals from plastic used in children’s toys and childcare articles. The court rejected most of the arguments made by the chemical industry…

House Votes on Sweeping Public Lands Package

Press ReleaseUnited States
The U.S. House of Representatives is voting today on a series of measures that would preserve wilderness and help safeguard public lands in the West.

Coalition Calls on DOE to Reconsider Nuclear Waste Rule

Press ReleaseWest
The Yakama Nation, state of Washington and environmental groups joined together in an unprecedented request to the Department of Energy today that it rescind a harmful Trump-era regulation that could allow millions of gallons of radioactive waste to be abandoned…

Deb Haaland is Ideal Choice for Interior Secretary

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is set today to hold a hearing on the nomination of Rep. Debra Haaland, D-NM to be Secretary of the Interior.

Biden Takes Bold Actions to Combat Climate Change

Press ReleaseUnited States
President Biden is expected to announce a robust and far-reaching package of actions today to combat dangerous climate change. The following are statements by experts at NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) on key elements.

Conservancy Sues Tejon Ranch Company to Enforce Conservation Agreement

Press ReleaseCalifornia
The Tejon Ranch Conservancy (Conservancy) today joined a coalition lawsuit against the Tejon Ranch Company (Company), asking a Kern County Superior Court to find the company in breach of the landmark 2008 Tejon Ranch Conservation and Land Use Agreement (RWA)…

NRDC Files Lawsuit to Protect Endangered Gray Wolf

Press ReleaseUnited States
NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) filed a lawsuit in federal court against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) today, for its unlawful removal of gray wolves from the Endangered Species Act (ESA) list. The lawsuit asks the court to…

NRDC Sues EPA For Failing to Protect Public from Deadly Soot

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.
NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) today sued the Trump Environmental Protection Agency to block a final rule that left in place the current unprotective federal limits on soot pollution and leaves thousands of people vulnerable to air pollution and breathing…

NRDC Sues EPA to Block Rule Exposing Public to More Toxic Pollution

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.
NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) sued the Environmental Protection Agency Friday to block the agency’s rollback of the longstanding health protective policy known as “once in, always in.” The rollback would allow some of the country’s biggest polluters to produce…

Groups Sue Trump Administration for Rollback of Bird Protections

Press ReleaseNew York
To reinstate bedrock protections for more than 1,000 species of waterfowl, raptors and songbirds, NRDC and partners filed a lawsuit today in the Southern District of New York challenging the Trump administration’s radical reinterpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

EPA’s Gift to Polluters will Fuel Climate Crisis and Harm Health

Press ReleaseUnited States
In the last days of the Trump administration, the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to issue a rule today seeking to exempt some of the nation’s biggest polluters—including producers of oil and gas, chemicals, cement, steel and aluminum—from future Clean…