Media Center

Featured Press Releases & Media Resources

Skip carousel items

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.
The NRDC logo on dark blue background

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The Department of the Interior repealed the Bureau of Land Management’s Public Lands Rule, eliminating the regulatory requirement that conservation be weighed alongside mining, drilling, timber, and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.

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 1 - 20 of 44

Active filters:

Remove all filters

Filter Results

Keystone Light Tar Sands Pipeline: Same Problems, Different Name

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C., Canada
President Trump signed off on a key permit to construct the Bridger Pipeline Expansion project, often referred to as “Keystone Light” because it would pump huge volumes of Canada’s sludgy tar sands oil along a portion of the controversial canceled…

Congress Moves to Open Boundary Waters to Pollution from Toxic Mining

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.
The Senate passed House Joint Resolution 140, a dangerous measure that would strip protections from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota, and open the door to toxic copper mining at the headwaters of this iconic wilderness area, threatening…

Senate Republicans Seek to Weaken Nation’s Toxic Chemical Law

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C., United States
Senate Republicans put forward proposed legislation to rewrite the nation’s most important law protecting the public from toxic chemicals in the Environment and Public Works Committee hearing held today.

The State of the Union is Dire

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C., United States
President Trump will address a joint session of Congress tonight.

Trump Says EPA Will Cut 65 Percent of Staff

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C., United States
President Trump said today that EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin plans to cut up to 65 percent of the agency's staff, an unprecedented move that would catastrophically weaken the EPA's ability to protect human health and the environment.

Zeldin Acknowledges Need for Climate Action

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.
Lee Zeldin, the nominee to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, told a Senate panel today that fossil fuel emissions are causing climate change, a contrast with President-elect Trump’s frequent statements that climate change is a hoax.