Leading aid, development, faith-based, and environmental groups today are urging the Biden Administration to commit to significantly increase the U.S. contribution in international climate finance, which would be used to protect vulnerable countries, spur greater climate action and persuade other…
Advancing nature-based solutions—such as protecting and restoring blue carbon ecosystems in Latin America and beyond—must be an integral part of global climate action.
A broad, bipartisan coalition is running ads thanking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for restarting the process to protect Alaska’s Bristol Bay and stop the Pebble Mine.
The Build Back Better package is an important first step to meet the need for clean and efficient buildings, but it is only a first step in a marathon, and much more is going to be needed to decarbonize buildings…
An investigation by NRDC and our partners at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) reveals repeated drinking water and wastewater violations at the notorious Parchman prison in Mississippi.
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) has developed a Draft Conservation Plan outlining how the state will reduce entanglements of endangered and threatened whales and sea turtles in the Oregon commercial Dungeness crab fishery.
President Biden announced today that the United States and the European Union have pledged to reduce emissions of methane, a powerful but short-lived pollutant arising from livestock, waste, and oil, gas and coal operations—all contributing to climate change.
NRDC advocates and our partners spent decades fighting against a highly toxic pesticide that harms kids, farmworkers, and their families. In August, the EPA finally banned it.
Expert BlogInternationalSameer Kwatra, Prima Madan
Celebrating the World Ozone Day, India’s Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, released an action plan for implementing climate friendly cooling in the country.
Expert BlogNew YorkCorinne Bell, Joan Leary Matthews
On November 2nd, New Yorkers can lead a new wave of state environmental rights amendments if they decide that the state should officially recognize everyone’s right to clean air and water.
This year, Oregon has the can't-miss opportunity to adopt the Advanced Clean Trucks and Heavy-Duty Omnibus rules. In doing so, Oregon will decrease reliance on fossil fuels and transitioning to clean energy in the transportation sector to protect hearts and…
The pending Build Back Better legislation marks the beginning of a decades long battle to reach transportation carbon neutrality and more equitable communities across the United States.
Oregon can save $2.1 billion and avoid 84,000 respiratory illnesses by 2050 by transitioning to zero-emission electric trucks, according to a new report that estimates the impacts of the proposed Advanced Clean Truck (ACT) and Heavy-Duty Omnibus (HDO) rules. The…
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