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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 File Proposed Settlement in Penobscot River Mercury Clean-Up Case

Press ReleaseMaine
The Maine People’s Alliance (MPA), NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) and Mallinckrodt US LLC today filed a proposed consent decree to settle more than two decades of litigation over mercury contamination in the Penobscot River estuary. If approved by the…

NRC Moves to Issue Weak Uranium Mining Rules

Press ReleaseWest
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission took action yesterday to start work on a rulemaking that could prevent a future U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from ending the wanton contamination of groundwater across the Mountain West generated by uranium mining.

NAFTA Study Confirms Canadian Tar Sands Pollution; Should Trigger Enforcement

Press ReleaseCanada
A new review by the North American Free Trade Agreement’s (NAFTA) Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) concluded in an assessment released this week cites “scientifically valid evidence” that toxic pollution from tailing ponds operated by tar sands oil operations are…

EPA Slashes State and Tribal Clean Water Rights

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Environmental Protection Agency issued a regulation today that undermines states’ and tribes’ authority to protect clean water within their borders, a change that would help fossil-fuel companies and developers to the detriment of the rest of us.

Gov. Cuomo Blocks Williams Pipeline for Third Time

Press ReleaseNew York
Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) today blocked the Williams Pipeline from moving forward. This decision comes after nearly three years of unrelenting grassroots advocacy in opposition to the fossil fuel project, and…

Coalition Sues to Stop Clean Water Rollbacks

Press ReleaseUnited States
A coalition of environmental groups filed a lawsuit in federal court to block the Trump administration’s unlawful move to gut protections for many of America’s streams and wetlands.

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…

Trump Administration California Water Letter is Galling

Press ReleaseCalifornia
The Trump Administration sent a letter to California Governor Gavin Newsom with claims that California is failing to live up to its Clean Water obligations. The letter comes a week after the Trump Administration threatened to withdraw infrastructure money for…

NRDC Map and Report Reveal Rise in Harmful Algal Blooms

Press ReleaseUnited States
As harmful algal blooms (HABs) proliferate in the United States, two new releases from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) illuminate the scale of the problem nationally and detail a major pollution source helping to fuel it. A new interactive…

Trump planea negar a los estadounidenses agua limpia

Press ReleaseUnited States
WASHINGTON - Hoy se espera que la administración Trump elimine las protecciones críticas para arroyos, humedales y otros cuerpos de agua en riesgo de contaminación al revocar la Norma del Agua Limpia.

Trump Moves to Deny Americans Clean Water

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Trump administration is expected today to eliminate critical protections for streams, wetlands and other water bodies at risk from pollution by repealing the Clean Water Rule.

EPA Moves to Block States, Tribes from Protecting Waterways

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Environmental Protection Agency issued a proposed rule today to strip a powerful tool under the Clean Water Act states and tribes have used to prevent federally permitted projects from harming their waterways.

NRDC on WaterFix Announcement: “Successful End of Fight”

Press ReleaseCalifornia
The State of California announced the withdrawal of permits and applications for the California WaterFix Project, the proposal to construct two massive tunnels under the Delta that would cost tens of billions of dollars and divert even more water from…

Trump Tramples States’ Ability to Protect Their Water

Press ReleaseUnited States
President Donald Trump announced today that his administration would short-circuit the ability of states to weigh the risks—and curb the impacts—of projects like pipelines and dams to the lakes, rivers, streams and wetlands within their borders.

Federal Court Directs EPA to Uphold Clean Water Act in Baltimore

Press ReleaseMaryland
A federal judge in Maryland has ruled that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) violated the Clean Water Act by wrongfully denying a petition by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Blue Water Baltimore, and American Rivers to regulate harmful…