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The Department of the Interior repealed the Bureau of Land Management’s Public Lands Rule, eliminating the regulatory requirement that conservation be weighed alongside mining, drilling, timber, and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

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Lowe’s To Stop Selling Carpet Made with PFAS: NRDC Reaction

Press ReleaseUnited States
Lowe’s, the nation’s second-largest home improvement retail chain, announced it will stop purchasing all carpet and rugs that contain PFAS in the U.S. and Canada by January 2020. Lowe’s decision to clear inventory of carpets and rugs made with PFAS…

Automakers Attack States’ Authority to Curb Climate Pollution

Press ReleaseUnited States
As California suffers another season of devastating fires, automakers including General Motors, Toyota, and Chrysler’s parent FCA joined a lawsuit in support of the Trump administration’s effort to strip California and other states of their long-held authority to address climate…

Governor Cooper Must Veto NC Farm Act

Press ReleaseNorth Carolina
The North Carolina General Assembly today voted to approve the Farm Act, which creates a loophole in a decades-old law that prevents industrial hog facilities in the state from making big changes to their facilities if those changes fail to…

NRDC, Groups Sue to Force FDA to Ban Toxic Chemical in Food Packaging

Press ReleaseUnited States
Several environmental and public-health advocacy groups filed a lawsuit today asking a federal court in New York to overturn the Food and Drug Administration’s denial of a petition to ban the use of a dangerous chemical, perchlorate, in food packaging…

Trump’s Paris Pullout Hasn’t Derailed Climate Action

Press ReleaseInternational
In Pittsburgh today, President Trump is expected to address his plans to formally start withdrawing the United States from the landmark Paris agreement on climate change. That can begin on November 4 by notifying the United Nations.

Vote Reveals Senators Backing Climate Action and Those Opposed

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Senate is scheduled to vote today on a measure blocking the Environmental Protection Agency’s Affordable Clean Energy rule, which could increase carbon pollution from dirty power plants, the second largest contributor to climate change.

Efficiency Can Help With the Climate & Housing Affordability Crises

Press ReleaseUnited States
Investing in energy efficiency improvements to low-income housing can help ease both America’s housing affordability and climate crises but federal programs to facilitate those retrofits are severely underfunded, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) senior policy advocate Khalil Shahyd told Congress…

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.

California elimina gradualmente el uso del clorpirifos para fines de 2020

Press ReleaseCalifornia
SACRAMENTO — El Departamento de Regulación de Pesticidas de California anunció hoy que virtualmente todo uso del clorpirifos, un pesticida relacionado con problemas de aprendizaje en niños, será gradualmente eliminado en el estado para fines de 2020 bajo años de…

California Phasing Out Chlorpyrifos Use by End of 2020

Press ReleaseCalifornia
The California Department of Pesticide Regulation today announced that virtually all use of chlorpyrifos—a pesticide linked to learning disabilities in children—will be phased out in the state by the end of 2020, following years of pressure from public health, farmworker…