New York State accelerated its commitment to cutting carbon pollution from the transportation sector and improving air quality for all New Yorkers by releasing the final order on a utility-based electric vehicle charging station program, which is anticipated to reap…
NRDC and several partners filed a lawsuit today to overturn EPA’s flawed risk assessment of methylene chloride, the first of ten such assessments EPA has drafted under the revised Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
Our economic recovery will ask this unavoidable question: will we double down on the old system—a fossil-fueled, profoundly unequal system that leaves many of us sick and impoverished, and leads us towards climate catastrophe? Or will we learn from our…
The weak federal stance on the safety of the toxic paint stripper doesn’t just pose a risk to the public—it could mean bad news for how we evaluate all toxic chemicals going forward.
Showing it “doesn’t give a rat’s ass what happens in Alaska,” the Army Corps of Engineers is expected this month to issue its fatally flawed EIS for the reckless Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay, ignoring overwhelming opposition in Alaska but…
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission voted today on a series of changes that threaten to undercut small wind, solar and other clean energy sources. The decision could lead to more pollution by propping up fossil fuel power plants.
NRDC (the Natural Resources Defense Council) together with partners, today asked a federal court to review the Environmental Protection Agency’s woefully inadequate process for evaluating risks of the toxic chemical methylene chloride. A solvent used in paint strippers and other…
The New York State Department of Public Service (DPS) today released the final order on the state’s “Make-Ready” program for Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment and Infrastructure.
Canada’s ambitious climate goals are threatened by a “logging loophole” that allows industrial logging to clearcut the carbon-rich boreal forest, unleashing emissions neither adequately counted nor regulated under current law, according to a new analysis released today by Nature Canada…
In a major victory in the fight to curb the oil and gas industry’s methane emissions, a federal court in California has rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to rescind the 2016 Methane Waste Prevention Rule, calling the agency action “backwards,”…
The Trump administration is set to issue rules today that could curtail the public’s right to have a say in the pipelines, highways, incinerators, and other government-approved projects that will define their neighborhoods for decades to come.
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