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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…

Trump EPA Rejects Hawaiʻi's Clean Air Plan, Preventing Utility's Own Requests to Retire Aging Oil-Burning Plants

Press ReleaseHonolulu
The Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency finalized its rejection of Hawaiʻi's Regional Haze State Implementation Plan on Friday.

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.

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Senate Passes Biggest Public Lands Package in Decades

Press ReleaseUnited States, Utah
The Senate today passed a massive bipartisan package of bills that would protect vast swaths of public lands and wilderness in Utah and permanently reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund, among other important environmental strides.

Canadian Logging Company Attack on Environmentalists’ Free Speech Fails

Press ReleaseCanada
In a victory for free speech, a U.S. federal court dismissed all claims under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) in a lawsuit brought by a Canadian logging company against environmental groups Greenpeace and Stand.earth, advocates seeking to…

NRDC Sues Trump Administration Over Rollback of Methane Rule for Public Lands

Press ReleaseCalifornia, New Mexico
The Natural Resources Defense Council and coalition of nearly 20 conservation and tribal citizen groups today sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management over its rollback of commonsense protections that stop the unnecessary leaking of climate change-fueling and health-harming air…

NRDC, 19 Other Groups Challenge EU’s Mistaken Climate Decision

Press ReleaseInternational
European Union policymakers agreed late last night on a new Renewable Energy Directive that failed to fix Europe’s broken bioenergy policies. The decision to mistakenly continue to label the indiscriminate burning of wood as “carbon neutral” jeopardizes the EU’s environmental…

Dominion Plans to Shut One of Largest U.S. Biomass Plants

Press ReleaseVirginia
Dominion Energy said it intends to shutter one of the largest wood-burning power plants in the U.S., underscoring the increasing competitiveness of wind and solar power in our nation’s energy mix.

Pruitt’s Scorched-Earth Approach to Our Forests

Press ReleaseUnited States
Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency's administrator, said today that when forest materials are burned to produce electricity the EPA would deem that to be carbon neutral.

NRDC, Partners Sue Trump to Block Revocation of Bears Ears Monument

Press ReleaseUtah
The Natural Resources Defense Council and the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance—together with Earthjustice on behalf of nine other groups—today filed a lawsuit to block the Trump administration from revoking Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument

GOP’s Tax Scam Raids America’s Last Wildland

Press ReleaseArctic
Congress has passed a $1.5 trillion package of tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy that opens the way for oil exploration and drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge—America’s last truly wild place.

Trump to Issue Orders Ripping Apart Utah National Monuments

Press ReleaseUtah
President Trump is set to issue orders from Salt Lake City today abolishing Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, two of the nation’s most treasured public lands. The move would strip essential protections from more than 2 million…

No Route Is Safe for Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline

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The Nebraska Public Service Commission today approved an alternate route for the proposed controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline through Nebraska that will require significant additional examination and analysis.