Fact SheetIndia, AhmedabadDr. Kim Knowlton, Dr. Vijay Limaye
If we power air conditioning by burning dirty fossil fuels—rather than by harnessing cleaner, renewable energy sources—we increase dangerous air pollution and contribute to the climate crisis.
Despite dire warnings about mass extinction and climate change impacts in the very near future, the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework lacks the ambition necessary to address the crises.
This rider is a rebuke of deliberative policy, respect for science, and the fundamental commitment that this country has made, through its laws and traditions, to protect our most endangered species.
Two years after failing to meet the timelines of its own 2018 policy to address antibiotic overuse in beef, McDonald’s decided to quietly issue an update that takes the company further away from its goals.
After a two-year delay in releasing reduction targets related to its 2018 antibiotic use policy for beef supply chains, McDonald’s has pivoted and quietly published a new, weaker approach, instead. While the new policy encourages U.S. suppliers to drastically lower…
The Environmental Protection Agency issued new standards that would curb dangerous tailpipe pollution from trucks in the coming years, the first time it has updated these standards in more than two decades.
The U.S. Postal Service announced that it plans to significantly increase its purchases of electric delivery vehicles as it transitions to buying nearly all electric vehicles in a few years.
From reducing pollution burden to reducing gas bills, the Recovery Plan represents an opportunity for Chicago to reach its emissions reductions goals while improving lives.
NRDC will continue to press regulators and lawmakers for policies that transition our power grid to a modern, robust, clean-energy electric delivery system.
Expert BlogDelaware, New Jersey, New York, PennsylvaniaSahana Rao
The Delaware River Basin Commission has moved to further protect the 13,579 square-mile watershed by finalizing new rules that, among other things, ban the discharge of fracking wastewater.
New research, among the first to quantify the city-level benefits of climate action in India, shows that assertive adaptation measures and clean energy deployment in Ahmedabad could reduce air pollution, save energy, and avoid more than 1,400 premature deaths there…
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