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EPA Greenlights More Toxic Tailpipe Pollution

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.
The Environmental Protection Agency proposed delaying new standards that would limit toxic tailpipe pollution that cause soot and smog.
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The Cost of the United States’ Dependence on Oil

Ed Board MemoUnited StatesAlexandra Adams
The country's entire economy is more vulnerable to oil price and supply shocks. In a global market, that means there’s one solution: Reduce dependence on oil.

Trump Administration Repeals Landmark Public Lands Rule

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.
The Department of the Interior repealed the Bureau of Land Management’s Public Lands Rule, eliminating the regulatory requirement that conservation be weighed alongside mining, drilling, timber, and grazing across 245 million acres of public lands.

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Trump Administration to Withdraw Disgraceful Pendley Nomination

Press ReleaseUnited States
The White House reportedly intends to withdraw the nomination of William Perry Pendley for director of the Bureau of Land Management. Pendley, who has made racist statements and is an advocate for selling off public lands, would remain in an…

House to Enact Major Land and Water Conservation Law

Press ReleaseUnited States
The House today is scheduled to pass the Great American Outdoors Act, which will permanently fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund—a move NRDC has long advocated. The Senate overwhelmingly passed a companion bill in June, and President Trump indicated…

New Report: Canada’s Climate Goals Undermined by “Logging Loophole”

Press ReleaseCanada
Canada’s ambitious climate goals are threatened by a “logging loophole” that allows industrial logging to clearcut the carbon-rich boreal forest, unleashing emissions neither adequately counted nor regulated under current law, according to a new analysis released today by Nature Canada…

Court Rejects Trump Administration Effort to Roll Back Methane Rule

Press ReleaseUnited States
In a major victory in the fight to curb the oil and gas industry’s methane emissions, a federal court in California has rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to rescind the 2016 Methane Waste Prevention Rule, calling the agency action “backwards,”…

Maryland Phasing Out Chlorpyrifos Use

Press ReleaseMaryland
The Maryland General Assembly announced that virtually all use of chlorpyrifos—a pesticide linked to learning disabilities in children—will be phased out in the state by the end of 2020, following years of pressure from public health, farmworker and community groups.

U.S. Government Expands Mexican Seafood Ban to Save Vaquita Porpoise

Press ReleaseUnited States
The U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announced today that it will ban imports of Mexican shrimp and other seafood caught in the habitat of the critically endangered vaquita porpoise. The action is being taken under the Marine Mammal Protection…

L.A. City Council Members Aim to Prevent Amazon Deforestation

Press ReleaseLos Angeles
Los Angeles City Councilmembers Paul Koretz (5th District) and David Ryu (4th District) presented a motion today to put an end to City purchases of products derived from the deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest. The Councilmembers further called for the…

Trump Administration Formalizes Plans to Degrade Utah Monuments

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.

Mining Projects to Ride in on Trump’s NEPA Bulldozer

Press ReleaseUnited States
Just days after the Trump administration proposed gutting a bedrock environmental law governing infrastructure projects, a new move by a federal permitting council would extend environmental fast-tracking to the mining sector—a sweeping move that will make it easier to build…

NRDC Report: EU Subsidies Lead to Forest Destruction

Press ReleaseInternational
European nations are wasting $7 billion a year on subsidies for the burning of wood for power or heat, a notoriously dirty source of energy that the European Union has allowed to be counted as clean energy.