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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.

House Transportation Bill Would Stick Americans With New Fees, Higher Costs

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee released legislation that would set priorities and funding for federally funded transportation over the next five years.

EPA Seeks to Gut PFAS Protections, Leaving Millions Exposed to Toxic Forever Chemicals in Tap Water

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed to eliminate key current standards set to protect people from unsafe levels of PFAS “forever chemicals” in drinking water, reversing legal protections adopted in 2024. Additionally, the EPA has reversed course and stopped…

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NRDC’s Gina McCarthy on President Trump’s Dirty Water Rule

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Trump administration is set to issue rules that would gut critical safeguards in the Clean Water Act, upending decades of protections for streams, wetlands, lakes and rivers, according to news reports. These bodies of water filter pollution, serve as…

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.

House Passes Public Lands Protection Bills

Press ReleaseUnited States
The House of Representatives today passed two pieces of legislation that would offer key protection to treasured public lands.

Michigan’s Lead Drinking Water Protections Upheld By Court

Press ReleaseMichigan
The effort to squash Michigan’s Lead and Copper Rule, passed to prevent future disasters like Flint’s lead drinking water crisis, was rejected today by the Michigan Court of Claims. The ruling ended all legal claims outlined in the complaint from…

EPA Weakens Lead Drinking Water Protections

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Environmental Protection Agency today is proposing changes to the Lead and Copper Rule (LCR), a complex, outdated national standard for controlling lead levels in drinking water.

Pledge to “Wipe Right” on National Toilet Paper Day

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is urging American consumers to mark National Toilet Paper Day by pledging to use recycled toilet paper—or “wipe right”—to save more than one million of trees from the tree-to-toilet pipeline.

Protecting Lands is Urgent Step in Climate Action

Press ReleaseUnited States
A Special Report on Lands and Climate Change released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) underscores both the fierce urgency to take action and the opportunities ahead when it comes to land-use decisions.

Michigan’s Lead Drinking Water Protections Survive Legal Challenge

Press ReleaseMichigan
Michigan’s Lead and Copper Rule, passed to prevent future disasters like Flint’s lead in drinking water crisis, was upheld in court. The nation’s most protective lead standard, which helps keep lead out of drinking water, survived all but one yet-to-be…