NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) and partners late Friday sued the Environmental Protection Agency to block a Trump-era policy allowing industrial facilities to significantly increase air pollution that endangers public health, including in communities of color overburdened by exposure to…
NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) filed a lawsuit in federal court against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) today, for its unlawful removal of gray wolves from the Endangered Species Act (ESA) list. The lawsuit asks the court to…
EPA had an opportunity—and indeed, an obligation—in this rulemaking to protect children from being poisoned by lead in drinking water in schools and child care centers. It failed to do so. That’s one of many reasons why NRDC believes the…
This is the year offshore wind goes from learning to walk to an all-out sprint. The first two weeks of 2021 contained big news for this critical source of clean energy, and this week’s inauguration of President Joe Biden will…
In a sweeping Executive Order issued on the first day, President Biden reinstated the Obama-era Federal Flood Risk Management Standard. This flood protection standard had required federally funded infrastructure, like public housing, hospitals, fire stations, and water treatment plants, to…
We examine how much progress the state legislature and executive agencies have made in and what New Jersey needs to achieve in the year ahead to stay on course to meet its goals of electrifying transportation.
A new report from MJ Bradley & Associates estimates Nevada could realize $21 billion in avoided expenditures on gasoline and maintenance, reduced utility bills, and environmental benefits by 2050 by driving electric vehicles (EVs).
To understand energy access needs at the village-level and spur clean energy transitions, NRDC and our partner, the Self-Employed Women’s Association, are implementing the Hariyali Green Villages initiative. The partners organized a virtual roundtable featuring implementing agencies, industry experts, financiers…
The new administration is certainly bringing us plenty of immediate good news for the nation and the planet. And some of it is for the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument.