When Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler testifies today before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, he has some serious explaining to do.
NRDC staff reflect on Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month, and their work creating a more compassionate, more inclusive, and more just future.
President Trump signed an executive order today directing federal agencies to roll back a host of regulations, and is encouraging agencies to ‘waive, suspend and eliminate’ regulations they deem unnecessary—as well as make permanent some pandemic-related suspensions of regulations.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a vital role to play in how decision makers at all levels prepare for the compound threat of COVID-19 and weather extremes.
Programs to increase the efficiency of energy use in industry can speed the economic recovery from COVID-19 while continuing to cut climate pollution emissions. These programs produce more and better jobs, and increase participating companies' global competitiveness.
A coalition of community groups fighting the relocation of a controversial metal shredding operation from the North Side of Chicago to the Southeast Side of the city had a very simple reaction to the explosions that rocked the General Iron facility earlier today: “Don’t…
In offensive comments published today, Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette likened the reluctance of major banks to finance oil and gas development in the Arctic to the discriminatory practice of redlining.
Conservation groups released a sweeping action plan today for the United States to dramatically crack down on wildlife trade, which is the most probable cause of the global coronavirus pandemic. Among other proposals, the action plan recommends that the United…
The Illinois General Assembly is reconvening for an emergency session in Springfield next week just as Cook County becomes the new COVID-19 epicenter, surpassing Queens, NY for the most cases in the nation. It is a particularly grim moment—but as…
In a sweeping victory for communities across the region, Governor Cuomo has blocked the Williams pipeline from moving forward. Citing the potential of the pipeline to harm New York’s waterways, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) denied…
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