Hours before taking office, Joe Biden launched his presidency today with a sweeping call to action on climate change and racial justice, issuing executive orders to rejoin the 2015 Paris climate agreement and reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
Our grid hasn’t kept up to its potential—and it's holding back our development of clean energy and the deployment of the innovative, clean technologies. Too often, utilities are incentivized to build too much of things we don’t need and not…
The administration is leaving office with a reward for automakers who refuse to make more fuel-efficient vehicles. But the list of these last-minute gifts to the administration’s polluter pals is long and growing.
NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) announced the expansion of the Food Matters Project in the Great Lakes region with the goal of furthering larger-scale change related to food waste throughout the region. Building on projects previously launched in the Mid-Atlantic…
The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and For the People Act are aimed at strengthening the foundations of our democracy so that we can build a more just and equitable society.
Expert BlogUnited StatesAlejandra Mejia Cunningham, Kimi Narita
Efforts to strip local communities of decision-making authority over the health impacts and cost of their future homes and buildings have been introduced in several state legislatures. If adopted, these bills could hamstring local government’s ability to lead in the…
NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) today sued the Trump Environmental Protection Agency to block a final rule that left in place the current unprotective federal limits on soot pollution and leaves thousands of people vulnerable to air pollution and breathing…
NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) sued the Environmental Protection Agency Friday to block the agency’s rollback of the longstanding health protective policy known as “once in, always in.” The rollback would allow some of the country’s biggest polluters to produce…
To reinstate bedrock protections for more than 1,000 species of waterfowl, raptors and songbirds, NRDC and partners filed a lawsuit today in the Southern District of New York challenging the Trump administration’s radical reinterpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
On its final day in office, the Trump administration suffered a devastating legal blow, as an appellate court rejected the Environmental Protection Agency’s misguided attempt to roll back Obama-Biden era limits on carbon pollution from our power plants.
To deny the role that white supremacy played in the January 6 attack on the Capitol is to ignore its true origins—and to endanger our shared, livable future.
Expert BlogUnited StatesArohi Sharma, Lara Bryant, Ellen Lee, Claire O'Connor
One size does not fit all with regenerative agriculture. Ergo, policy must support and grow the enabling environments and the multifaceted tools—the on-farm, financial, management, and social tools—that make regenerative farms and ranches successful.
