News & Commentary

To protect endangered whales and sea turtles from entanglements in California, several regulatory improvements are necessary.

Offshore wind is a crucial part of California’s transition to a clean energy future, bringing significant benefits like cleaner air and economic opportunities.

Just in time for spring, we’re seeing movement in California to curtail harmful and unnecessary uses of neonicotinoid insecticides, or “neonics.” 

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) is considering a disclosure framework for banks' climate-related financial risks.

State funding for an expanded library of pop-up fishing gear will dramatically increase access for fishers and support critical testing efforts.

Banking Supervisors are Recognizing the Impact Climate has on the Financial System

Twenty-one long-missing endangered species have been declared extinct. Far from a failure of the ESA, the announcement shows the need for prompt ESA protections. 

It should instruct supervisors to treat climate risk as an element of traditional financial risk.

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an NRDC-sponsored bill to limit certain non-agricultural neonic uses while paving the way for additional restrictions. 

By passing a bill to rein in non-agricultural uses of bee-killing neonics, California can build on a good year for pollinator protections. 

A court sided with NRDC in its latest lawsuit to protect the endangered rusty patched bumble bee, paving the way for critical habitat protections. 

U.S. FWS and NMFS proposed to reverse prior rollbacks of protections for imperiled species, but more is needed.

The California Assembly  passed two bills that would help address widespread contamination of the state’s environment with pesticides like neurotoxic neonics.

U.S. EPA's unprecedented findings confirm that widespread neonic pesticide use threatens critical pollinators, other wildlife, and whole ecosystems. 

NRDC has sued the California Department of Pesticide Regulation for its failure to regulate crop seeds treated with pesticides. These "treated seed' uses are major sources of widespread pesticide contamination, and pose threats to pollinators, other wildlife, and people.