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Keystone Light Tar Sands Pipeline: Same Problems, Different Name

May 1, 2026 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…

Senator Lee, Rep. Maloy introduce joint resolution to undo Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Management Plan

March 4, 2026 Press ReleaseWashington, D.C., Utah

Today, the elected officials behind 2025’s failed public lands sell-off attempts – Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rep. Celeste Maloy (R-UT-02) – introduced a joint resolution to undo the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Management Plan using the Congressional Review Act…

Senator Lee Formally Begins Process to Fast-track the Destruction of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

February 26, 2026 Press ReleaseUtah, United States

This threatens to bring chaos to a crown jewel of the nation’s public lands system and upend public lands protection as we know it.

NRDC’s Issue with Tissue Shows Procter & Gamble Fails Sustainable Toilet Paper Test

September 16, 2024 Press ReleaseUnited States, Canada

American bathrooms are stocked with toilet paper and tissues sourced from the Canadian boreal forest, one of the world’s largest and most ecologically important intact forests. For the sixth year in row, Procter & Gamble failed the toilet paper sustainability…

“State of the Forest” Report Countering Canada's Annual Account of Logging’s Sustainability

January 18, 2024 Press ReleaseCanada

In a first-of-its-kind joint report released today, leading North American environmental organizations have challenged the Canadian federal government’s annual account of the country’s forestry sector that understates the impacts of industrial logging.

Audit reveals government failure to transparently report logging emissions and shows flaws in Canada’s Two Billion Tree plan

April 20, 2023 Press ReleaseOttawa

Foundational flaws across key pillars of Canada’s forest and climate policy jeopardize its ability to meet its climate and nature commitments.

Canadian Logging Industry Carbon Emissions On Par With Tar Sands Operations:

October 18, 2022 Press ReleaseCanada

Groundbreaking Report Debunks the Myth that Logging is Carbon-Neutral

P&G Board Members Face Shareholder Vote Over Forest Destruction in Supply Chain

September 20, 2022 Press ReleaseUnited States, Canada

A proposal to shareholders urges Procter & Gamble (P&G) investors to vote against current members of the board of directors, due to the company’s failure to address unsustainable sourcing of wood pulp and palm oil from climate-critical forests in the…

Major Toilet Paper Makers Are Wiping Out the Climate-Critical Boreal Forest, While the Marketplace Embraces Eco-Friendly Options

September 13, 2022 Press ReleaseCanada

Top American TP brands like P&G’s Charmin get “F” grades in NRDC’s new report & scorecard, as more sustainable options enter the market.

Canadians Want Action to Protect Forests – New EKOS Poll Confirms

March 28, 2022 Press ReleaseCanada

On the eve of the release of Canada’s major new climate plan, an EKOS poll shows that the vast majority of Canadians want the federal government to take stronger action to protect forests and address logging industry emissions.

Report: Heading into COP26, Canada is hiding more than 80 million tons of carbon emissions from logging

October 28, 2021 Press ReleaseCanada

Missing the Forest: How Carbon Loopholes for Logging Hinder Canada’s Climate Leadership

Canadian Loggers Forego Sustainability Practices, Opt to Continue Clearcutting Climate-Critical Boreal Forest, Finds New NRDC Analysis

October 7, 2021 Press ReleaseCanada

P&G’s claims that its tissue supply chain is sustainable are debunked

Report: Tissue Market Is Shifting to Sustainability, But P&G Doubles Down on Flushing Climate-Critical Forests for Toilet Paper

September 15, 2021 Press ReleaseUnited States, Canada

NRDC’s 2021 “Issue With Tissue” Scorecard Highlights Kimberly-Clark’s New Online Offering of 100% Recycled Toilet Paper & Bamboo Tissue Products Make the Grade, for the First Time

ANALYSIS: Industrial Logging in Canada’s Boreal Forest Is Unsustainable, Accelerates Climate Change

April 7, 2021 Press ReleaseCanada

P&G’s Sourcing Complicit in Destroying One of the World’s Last Intact Forests

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

July 16, 2020 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…

Trump Administration Formalizes Plans to Degrade Utah Monuments

February 6, 2020 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.

139 Groups Tell P&G to Stop Turning Canada’s Oldest Trees into Toilet Paper

October 8, 2019 Press ReleaseCanada

Facing protests outside its shareholders meeting and petitions from over 200,000 consumers, P&G is urged to stop sourcing from threatened species habitat and increase recycled fibers in tissue products to save forests and the climate

Trump’s Plans Endanger Grand Staircase Monument

August 23, 2019 Press ReleaseUtah

The Bureau of Land Management released management plans for its gutted version of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

Trump Administration to Propose Management Plan for Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument

July 25, 2019 Press ReleaseUtah

The Bureau of Land Management is expected to release its final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and proposed Monument Management Plan (MMP) tomorrow for Bears Ears National Monument. These will undergo administrative protest and consistency review periods before becoming final.

Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration Approval of Massive Utah Oil Shale Development

May 16, 2019 Press ReleaseUtah

Conservation groups today sued the Trump administration to challenge what would be the nation’s first commercial-scale oil shale mine and processing facility. The lawsuit says officials failed to protect several endangered species when they approved rights-of-way across public lands to…