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UN General Assembly Reinforces Accountability for Climate Polluters

Press ReleaseNew York, International
The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution yesterday affirming the International Court of Justice’s ruling that countries have an obligation to reduce carbon pollution within their borders and are legally responsible to live up to climate pledges, while reducing…
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How Solar Will Keep the ACs Humming This Summer: Key Takeaways from NERC’s Summer Assessment

Ed Board MemoUnited StatesChristy Walsh, Dr. Yamit Lavi
New, clean energy is critical to keeping the lights on and air conditioners humming.
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States Can Act Now to Create Workplace Heat Standards

BackgrounderUnited StatesJuanita Constible
There are several pathways to heat standards, which vary by the different buckets of state plan states and territories.

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Groups Sue EPA Over Refusal to Strengthen Toxic Ozone Standards

Press ReleaseUnited States
NRDC (the Natural Resources Defense Council), together with thirteen health and environmental groups, half of them represented by Earthjustice, sued the Environmental Protection Agency today over air pollution standards. In a lawsuit in federal appeals court, the groups challenged the…

NRDC Sues to Block Trump’s Air Pollution Loophole

Press ReleaseUnited States
NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) and partners late Friday sued the Environmental Protection Agency to block a Trump-era policy allowing industrial facilities to significantly increase air pollution that endangers public health, including in communities of color overburdened by exposure 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…

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…

EPA Retains Weak Smog Rule, Leaving Millions with Unsafe Air

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Environmental Protection Agency today finalized a rule keeping the current limits on smog in place, foregoing the opportunity to better protect the public, reduce asthma attacks and save thousands of lives with a stronger standard.

During Pandemic, EPA Aims to Undermine Clean Air Benefits

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Environmental Protection Agency today finalized a disingenuous way to calculate the costs and benefits of regulations under the Clean Air Act, aiming to limit EPA's future ability to adopt clean air health safeguards.

EPA Leaves Unsafe Health Standard for Soot Emissions in Place

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Trump Environmental Protection Agency today issued a final rule for soot pollution that leaves federal limits untouched, passing on the opportunity to save thousands of lives from pollution that harms the lungs and makes it harder to survive Covid-19.

EPA Rollback Boosts Toxic Air Pollution and Health Risks Including Cancer

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing an environmental rollback that ends enforcement of a longstanding “once in, always in” toxic air pollution policy, which required industrial facilities to implement major pollution control measures as long as the plant is in…

Public Deserves Stronger Limits on Ozone Pollution

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Environmental Protection Agency today announced that it would not strengthen the federal limit on ozone air pollution, bypassing an opportunity to better protect the public during a pandemic particularly dangerous for people with respiratory illnesses.

During Pandemic EPA Aims to Hamstring Clean Air Protections

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Environmental Protection Agency today proposed ​a new, dishonest way to calculate the costs and benefits of regulations under the Clean Air Act, in a maneuver designed to reduce EPA's ability to adopt protective clean air safeguards.

Groups Sue to Protect State Authority to Regulate Tailpipe Pollution

Press ReleaseUnited States
A coalition of environmental groups, including the Natural Resources Defense Council, filed a federal lawsuit today to stop the Trump administration’s attempt to revoke the authority of states to set vehicle pollution standards. The case was filed in the U.S…

NRDC Defends Clean Air from Bill that Would Boost Industry Air Pollution

Press ReleaseUnited States
Newly proposed legislation would allow massive increases in dangerous air pollution from nearly 14,000 industrial emitting facilities across the United States, John Walke, a senior attorney and clean air director with the Natural Resources Defense Council, told the Senate Committee…