Featured Press Releases & Media Resources


Media Contacts

To arrange for interviews with or comments from any of our lawyers, scientists, or analysts, please contact one of our press officers. If you are not a member of the press, please write to us at nrdcinfo@nrdc.org, or see our contact us page.

Kari Birdseye

kbirdseye@nrdc.org
California advocacy and California climate change policy, natural climate solutions

Jesús Canchola Sánchez

jcanchola@nrdc.org
Midwestern regional issues

Emily Deanne

edeanne@nrdc.org
Energy efficiency and decarbonization, buildings, food and agriculture, industrial policy and hydrogen

Mark Drajem

mdrajem@nrdc.org
Power sector, transportation and vehicles, renewable energy, nuclear power, energy transmission, RTOs, and siting

Leslie Edwards

ledwards@nrdc.org
Southeastern regional issues

Janet Fang

jfang@nrdc-china.org
China-based climate, energy and wildlife

Margie Kelly

mkelly@nrdc.org
Water, Canada, toxics

Ivan Moreno

imoreno@nrdc.org
Environmental justice and Chicago-based environmental issues

Ben Schaefer

bschaefer@NRDC.org 
Emerging climate and energy policy

Andrew Scibetta

ascibetta@NRDC.org
Lands, oceans, wildlife, liquefied natural gas (LNG)

Rita Yelda

ryelda@nrdc.org
Eastern regional issues

Viewing 521 - 540 of 674

Grid Reliability and Resilience Improve with More Low-Carbon Resources

Press Release
WASHINGTON – Bailing out costly giant power plants will not improve the electric grid’s resiliency but it will increase customer costs and pollution, the director of the Sustainable FERC Project housed within the Natural Resources Defense Council told a House…

Illinois’ First Fracking Permit Is a “Shoddy” Mess

Press ReleaseChicago
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources today approved its first permit under the state’s high volume fracking law. Experts at the NRDC had criticized the controversial permit application submitted by Woolsey Energy as lacking in key pieces of information.

Pruitt Should Protect, Not Harm, Public Health and the Environment

Press Release
WASHINGTON – More senators voted against a president’s nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency today than in the agency’s 46-year history. It’s no wonder, because Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt is unfit for the job as EPA administrator.

Carbon Tax, Yes. Clean Air Rules Rollback, No.

Press Release
WASHINGTON - A group of political and business leaders called today for a carbon tax to address the growing dangers of climate change. Natural Resources Defense Council President Rhea Suh made the following statement in response:

Senate Democrats Right to Block GOP Rushed Vote on Pruitt

Press Release
WASHINGTON – Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee today blocked a GOP-led rush to vote on the nomination of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.

Senate Should Reject ‘Polluter’ Cabinet Nominees Zinke and Perry

Press Release
WASHINGTON (Jan. 31, 2017) – The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted today to approve the nominations of Rep. Ryan Zinke for Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior and former Texas Governor Rick Perry for Secretary of…

EPA STUDY: Fracking Has Contaminated Drinking Water

Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Fracking operations have contaminated drinking water supplies around the country, according to a long-awaited final version of a study from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released today.