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Minnesotans Overfill First Oversight Hearing on Polluter Capture

April 8, 2026 Press ReleaseMinnesota

For the first time in years, the Minnesota Senate held an oversight hearing on Polluter Capture – when polluting companies exert too much influence over how our Minnesota State government agencies do, or do not, enforce the law. Community members…

Senator Lee, Rep. Maloy introduce joint resolution to undo Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Management Plan

March 4, 2026 Press ReleaseWashington, D.C., Utah

Today, the elected officials behind 2025’s failed public lands sell-off attempts – Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rep. Celeste Maloy (R-UT-02) – introduced a joint resolution to undo the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Management Plan using the Congressional Review Act…

Senator Lee Formally Begins Process to Fast-track the Destruction of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

February 26, 2026 Press ReleaseUtah, United States

This threatens to bring chaos to a crown jewel of the nation’s public lands system and upend public lands protection as we know it.

Settlement Requires Minnesota Agriculture Agency to Account for Impacts of Toxic Neonic Seed Treatments

January 15, 2026 Press ReleaseMinnesota

A proposed settlement has been reached in a lawsuit against the Minnesota Department of Agriculture over the agency’s inadequate regulation of toxic neonicotinoid pesticide-coated crop seeds.

Voluntary Is Not Enough: States Need to Intervene to Address Nitrogen Pollution

September 12, 2025 BackgrounderMinnesotaMaya Korb, J.P. Rose

It's critical that we grow food in a way that doesn’t poison drinking water, kill wildlife, and degrade ecosystems.

Lawsuit Filed Against Minnesota Department of Agriculture Over Failure to Regulate Toxic Neonic Pesticide Coatings on Crop Seeds 

August 4, 2025 Press ReleaseMinnesota

Neonic-treated seeds are leading to bee deaths and harmful water contamination.

Neonic Pesticides Contaminate Water Across Michigan

June 16, 2025 Press ReleaseMichigan

New report highlights likely widespread ecological degradation driven by neonic water pollution.

House Natural Resources Would Give Oil Industry Free Rein on Public Lands, Waters

May 2, 2025 Press ReleaseUnited States, Arctic, Alaska, Minnesota

The House Committee on Natural Resources released its bill text that would be part of the massive tax cut measure for billionaires the majority in Congress is developing.

Trump Energy EO and Keystone XL: “The Industry and the World Have Moved On”

January 24, 2025 Press ReleaseNebraska, North Dakota, Alberta, Montana, South Dakota

The Trump administration released an executive order this week that attempts to reinstate a cross-border permits to help “restart” the Keystone XL pipeline—a controversial project that the developer walked away from in 2021 after more than a decade of fighting.

Court Settlement: EPA Must Evaluate Impacts of Harmful Pesticide on Imperiled Species

January 28, 2021 Press ReleaseChicago

NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have reached an agreement that requires the agency to evaluate the impacts of imidacloprid, one of the most commonly used neonicotinoid pesticides, on endangered and threatened bees, butterflies, birds…

P&G Shareholders Deliver Overwhelming Vote for Better Forest Sourcing

October 13, 2020 Press ReleaseCincinnati

Investors at Procter & Gamble’s (P&G) annual shareholder meeting today sent a clear directive to the company that it needs to address its forest sourcing, with 67% of shareholders voting for a resolution that calls on the company to eliminate…

Trump Administration Formalizes Plans to Degrade Utah Monuments

February 6, 2020 Press ReleaseUtah

The Bureau of Land Management today finalized its plans to open Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah to drilling and other extractive activity. The Trump administration tried to gut these two monuments in December 2017.

Trump’s Plans Endanger Grand Staircase Monument

August 23, 2019 Press ReleaseUtah

The Bureau of Land Management released management plans for its gutted version of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

Trump Administration to Propose Management Plan for Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument

July 25, 2019 Press ReleaseUtah

The Bureau of Land Management is expected to release its final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and proposed Monument Management Plan (MMP) tomorrow for Bears Ears National Monument. These will undergo administrative protest and consistency review periods before becoming final.

Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration Approval of Massive Utah Oil Shale Development

May 16, 2019 Press ReleaseUtah

Conservation groups today sued the Trump administration to challenge what would be the nation’s first commercial-scale oil shale mine and processing facility. The lawsuit says officials failed to protect several endangered species when they approved rights-of-way across public lands to…

Trump Administration Ignores Environmental Impacts of Mining 30 Million Tons of Coal near Bryce Canyon National Park

April 16, 2019 Press ReleaseUtah

A lawsuit against the Trump Administration’s approval of Alton Coal’s mine expansion near Bryce Canyon National Park was filed today by Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), Grand Canyon Trust, Utah Physicians for…

Senate Passes Biggest Public Lands Package in Decades

February 12, 2019 Press ReleaseUnited States, Utah

The Senate today passed a massive bipartisan package of bills that would protect vast swaths of public lands and wilderness in Utah and permanently reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund, among other important environmental strides.

NRDC Spotlights Decline of Biodiversity at EXPO CHICAGO with Frameworks of Absence by Artist and Biologist Brandon Ballengée

September 17, 2018 Press ReleaseChicago

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) will present Frameworks of Absence—an installation of 70 artworks—by Brandon Ballengée at EXPO CHICAGO, the International Exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art, taking place at Navy Pier’s Festival Hall from September 27-30. The exhibition is…

NRDC, Partners Sue Trump to Block Revocation of Bears Ears Monument

January 2, 2018 Press ReleaseUtah

The Natural Resources Defense Council and the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance—together with Earthjustice on behalf of nine other groups—today filed a lawsuit to block the Trump administration from revoking Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument

NRDC, Groups Sue to Block Trump Action on Grand Staircase

December 5, 2017 Press ReleaseUtah

The Natural Resources Defense Council and partners have filed a lawsuit in federal court here challenging President Trump’s proclamation abolishing Grand Staircase-Escalante National monument.