Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin urged USEPA Region 5 today to require four metals facilities on Chicago’s Southeast Side, a heavily burdened environmental justice community, to install monitors for toxic metals and other air pollutants. In the past year…
The California Attorney General, representing Governor Newsom and the State of California, filed a motion today in federal court for a preliminary injunction to stop the implementation of the Trump Administration’s biological opinions (permits under the Endangered Species Act) governing…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit today ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency’s policy barring independent scientists from its advisory boards clashed with federal law and ethics regulations. The case was brought by Physicians for Social Responsibility…
NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council), Sierra Club, Environmental Defense Fund and the Union of Concerned Scientists sued the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission over its de facto bailout of coal and gas power plants at the expense of state clean energy…
St. Louis passed its highly ambitious Building Energy Performance Standard (BEPS) ordinance, making it the fourth jurisdiction in the United States and first in the Midwest to do so. Mayor Lyda Krewson is expected to officially sign the ordinance into…
Of all the ways our tax dollars could be spent to help us, bailing out a dying industry so it can further pollute our communities in order to manufacture exports that drive climate change really ought to be low on…
Fact SheetUnited States, East, WestJacob Eisenberg, Alexandra Adams
We must protect our coasts and push for clean, renewable and efficient energy that will protect our lifegiving oceans, the communities that rely on them, and our climate by helping us transition off oil.
Ten years ago, people all over the U.S. gasped in horror, glued to news broadcasts trained on the fallout from a massive oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.
A coalition of environmental and public health groups, including the Natural Resources Defense Council, today urged the U.S. Court of Appeals here to vacate the Environmental Protection Agency’s “unlawful replacement” for the Obama-era Clean Power Plan.
