This week, world leaders gather for the 20th WSDS to discuss pathways to balance the demand for further economic growth with the need for increased climate ambition. NRDC's Mitch Bernard and Frances Beinecke are speaking at this year's summit.
Expert BlogNew York CitySara Imperiale, Eric A. Goldstein
The New York City Council passed two bills that, when signed into law, will mark the beginning of the end for the notorious Rikers Island jail complex and transform the island into a model of green infrastructure and jobs.
Expert BlogUnited StatesDr. Kim Knowlton, Christina Swanson
Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu, an experimental physicist who, more than 60 years ago and in a field that is still dominated by men, made significant contributions to nuclear physics.
Scientists took a close look at how oceanic sharks and rays are faring globally and found that these species have declined by over 70% in the last 50 years, due to a massive, 18-fold increase in fishing pressure on these…
En la segunda parte de nuestra serie “La pandemia en el trabajo”, tres inmigrantes indocumentados comparten sus luchas para recibir ingresos, tener un futuro mejor y simplemente, el reconocimiento de la comunidad.
In Part Two of our “Pandemic at Work” series, three undocumented immigrants share their struggles for a paycheck, a future, and simply, acknowledgment.
NRDC (the Natural Resources Defense Council), together with thirteen health and environmental groups, half of them represented by Earthjustice, sued the Environmental Protection Agency today over air pollution standards. In a lawsuit in federal appeals court, the groups challenged the…
Mayor Lyda Krewson today signed several new ordinances into law today that would help bring increased electric vehicle charging infrastructure to neighborhoods across the City of St. Louis. The ordinances stand as the latest in an impressive string of clean…
With success afoot, now’s the time to look at what the CFC-11 story has taught us about the Montreal Protocol, and study in brief its strengths and vulnerabilities. If today’s success holds, the treaty’s response will have been a major…
Emissions of CFC-11, a dangerous chemical that harms our planet’s life-protecting ozone layer, are back on the decline after an unexpected spike lasting more than half a decade, two new studies find. The unexpected emissions—which started in 2012 and probably…
The Trump-era proposed rulemaking intended to reduce entanglements of North Atlantic right whales in fishing gear is a death sentence for the species. The Biden administration must take emergency measures to immediately protect the North Atlantic right whales from extinction.
One of the most important things we can do to protect the ocean from threats from climate change, overfishing, habitat destruction, industrial activities, and noise, chemical, and plastic pollution—in addition to cutting greenhouse gas emissions as quickly as possible—is to…
A group of community, business, faith, and environmental advocates sent a letter to Governor Newsom’s administration leaders today, providing suggestions for an inclusive public process and five key recommendations for studies concerning the transition away from fossil fuels mandated by…
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the inequities faced by food- and farmworkers who put their health in danger just by coming to work each day. NRDC is pushing to change that.
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