President Trump sent budget priorities to Congress today that featured a sharp uptick in military spending, paid for in large part by cuts in public health and environmental programs. NRDC experts say Congress should reject it.
AB 2447, the Nitrogen Pollution Reduction Act, would require the state to protect clean water for people and ecosystems by reducing excess nitrogen from irrigated agriculture.
NRDC filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s use of the Endangered Species Committee, known as the God Squad, to exempt Gulf of Mexico oil and gas activities from the Endangered Species Act.
Growing concerns that microplastics – tiny plastic particles found in human bodies and the environment – are toxic to human health led the EPA today to identify microplastics as a contaminant of concern in drinking water for the first time.
Cabinet committee votes to exempt federal oil and gas program from wildlife safeguards, threatening sea turtles, manatees, Rice’s whales, and other imperiled species.
The Trump administration’s God Squad unanimously voted to sacrifice endangered marine species—manatees, sea turtles, and whales—that are getting in the way of its plans for expanding oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. NRDC sued, but we also…
Attorneys presented arguments today in federal court in the first legal challenge in the nation to a climate superfund law, which requires certain large fossil fuel companies to pay their fair share for climate change preparation.
A coalition of public health, environmental, and community advocates filed a lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration's repeal of standards that limit brain-damaging mercury, lead, and other hazardous air pollution from coal-fired power plants.
The Trump Administration announced today that it would be giving a French energy company nearly one billion taxpayer dollars to abandon desperately needed offshore wind projects off the coasts of New York, New Jersey, and North Carolina in favor of…
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The administration’s actions are set to raise average energy costs by hundreds of dollars per household a year—in addition to the current spike in prices at the pump.
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