News & Commentary

As more governments are having to relocate communities due to climate change, there must be increased efforts to incorporate health considerations throughout the process.

And yet the Trump administration has eliminated the program, canceling lifesaving projects—such as tornado safe rooms in schools—across the country.

Eliminating unnecessary uses of toxic insecticides is the next step.

P&G’s new policy means Charmin toilet paper drives a tree-to-toilet pipeline.

The administration's approach of canceling major infrastructure investments, gutting incentives, and injecting political interference into basic energy policy is not a strategy—it is sabotage.

The agency’s proposal will drive up costs for drivers, make our air more unhealthy, and reduce consumer choice, and put polluters over people.

Sixteen years ago, the EPA found that climate change is real, dangerous, and caused by carbon pollution. Trying to repeal that finding is a fool's errand.

Environmental justice is an important part of the struggle to improve and maintain a clean and healthful environment, especially for communities of color who have been forced to live, work, and play closest to sources of pollution.

The harm from using PFAS in these products is completely unjustified when safer alternatives are available.

Stymied by financial, legal, and operational obstacles, Mexico Pacific requests an extension to 2032 to reboot its destructive LNG project in the iconic Gulf of California.

Rescinding the Roadless Rule would open vast swaths of protected national forests to logging and roadbuilding, threatening the country’s last remaining wildlands.

The project could sabotage U.S. climate goals, send oil-filled trains along the Colorado River, and pollute the air from Utah to the Gulf Coast.

The initiative could help boost circularity, reduce import dependence, and ensure long-term resource security and resilience of batteries.

NRDC and the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy are suing the state to stop harmful, unnecessary pesticide pollution.

Organic waste bans are some of the most impactful state policies we can pass to limit the amount of food going to landfills and incinerators—that's why they are the pinnacle of NRDC’s food waste reduction strategy. 

Electricity bills in the mid-Atlantic may increase up to $30 per household due to new data centers, unreliable gas plants, and delays in building new clean energy, but solutions are within reach.

California prioritizes 500 new truck charging ports, providing a model for other states.