News & Commentary

In Utah, Industry Pounces on What Were, Not Long Ago, Our Public Lands

October 10, 2018 DispatchUtahStarre Vartan

Cobalt mining and other interests lay claim to Grand Staircase–Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments, rankling local communities tied to these lands.

Montanans Find Their Scenery More Precious Than Copper or Gold

August 15, 2018 DispatchMontanaLora Shinn

Environmentalists, the recreation industry, and lovers of the state’s great outdoors push back against new mine developments threatening their waters.

What’s the Problem with a Facility that "Recycles" Cars?

August 2, 2018 Expert BlogMeleah Geertsma

General Iron’s facility is not just recycling the neighborhood’s aluminum cans, they are ripping apart cars that release extremely dangerous materials and pose serious risks to the community.

For Scott Pruitt’s EPA, Preventing Chemical-Plant Explosions Is an “Unnecessary Regulatory Burden”

May 25, 2018 Latest NewsUnited StatesJeff Turrentine

The survivors of the 2013 disaster in West, Texas, would disagree.

She Breathes In Pollution, and Fights It, in the Windy City

May 15, 2018 NRDC in ActionChicago, Illinois, Washington, D.C.Carmen Cusido

NRDC’s Gina Ramirez is helping to bring attention to the wafts of manganese dust that plague her family and neighbors on Chicago’s Southeast Side.

The Impact a Wisconsin LCD Plant May Have on the Great Lakes Is Not Crystal Clear

April 23, 2018 DispatchWisconsinSusan Cosier

We know Foxconn wants to take water from Lake Michigan, but what might it leave behind?

Tires: An Emerging Threat to Our Waterways, Our Seafood, and Ourselves?

March 29, 2018 Latest NewsUnited StatesJason Bittel

The United States produces two million tons of tire particles each year, and we know very little about what they do to the environment.

Another Manganese Threat to Chicago’s Southeast Side

January 9, 2018 Expert BlogMeleah Geertsma

In the latest chapter on neurotoxic manganese threatening a Chicago residential community, recently revealed inspection reports show that the City of Chicago and EPA inspectors uncovered alarming problems with industrial dust pollution this past fall, at yet another facility handling…

Environmental Advocacy Is a First Amendment Right

October 31, 2017 ExplainerUnited StatesBrian Palmer

Industrial polluters have gone to great lengths to stifle environmental advocacy, but their expansion of censorship laws has finally crossed a line for some federal judges.

Wyoming’s Anti-Science Laws Get a Second Look

October 30, 2017 DispatchWyomingAlisa Opar

How far will the state go to push back against citizens who want to know what’s in their water and air?

After 40 Years, Will GE Get a Pass for Polluting the Housatonic River?

August 28, 2017 DispatchMassachusettsClara Chaisson

Under the Trump administration, the decades-long battle to get the company to clean up its PCB mess looks more uncertain than ever.

Meet the Aboriginal Community Turning Abandoned Fishing Gear into Art

July 21, 2017 PerspectivesInternationalClara Chaisson

On Australia’s Cape York Peninsula, artists weave deadly “ghost nets” into totems.

Chicago Communities Get Relief from Cement Dust Pollution

July 29, 2016 Expert BlogMeleah Geertsma

Seeking a Clean Bill of Health

February 18, 2016 DispatchMidwestSusan Cosier

What it takes to make the Great Lakes’ areas of concern less concerning.

Our Man in Chicago

December 31, 2015 NRDC in ActionChicago, MidwestEmily Voigt

Henry Henderson knows that achieving energy independence and creating new jobs go hand-in-hand.

Things Are Looking Up

December 17, 2015 Latest NewsUnited StatesBrian Palmer

The Department of Energy just announced what may be the most significant efficiency rule ever—and one that businesses can get behind.

Hey, Congress, Quit Blaming the EPA

August 18, 2015 DispatchColoradoBrian Palmer

The Gold King mine accident is on you, too.

Striking Images Tell of Chicago's Petcoke Problem

August 1, 2015 Expert BlogJosh Mogerman

Significant Opportunity for Reducing India's Global Warming Hydrofluorocarbon Emissions

July 6, 2015 Expert BlogIndiaAnjali Jaiswal

Toxic Two-Step

May 15, 2015 DispatchTexasJeff Turrentine

When politicians and corporate polluters step onto the dance floor in Texas, the state’s environmental agency provides the music.