The Environmental Protection Agency is set to release a rule undermining federal standards for mercury, lead and other toxic air pollution from power plants, according to news reports. These long-standing clean-air protections are saving more than 10,000 lives, avoiding 130,000…
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and partners today sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the agency’s recently announced non-enforcement policy, which allows companies to use COVID-19 as a reason to stop monitoring and reporting pollution—without notifying the…
The Environmental Protection Agency must stop categorically barring its grant recipients from serving on the agency’s scientific advisory committees, a federal judge in New York ruled today in the latest litigation win by the Natural Resources Defense Council.
A federal judge ruled today that the US Army Corps of Engineers violated the law when it approved Nationwide Permit 12, a key water crossing permit for TC Energy’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and many other pipelines nationwide. The…
Northern Dynasty Minerals (aka Pebble Partnership) ignores plea for help from coronavirus-stressed Bristol Bay communities, choosing instead to spend millions on top-dollar DC lobbyists urging rushed, flawed permit decision.
While the public is terrified, grieving, and distracted by a worldwide health emergency and economic collapse, the U.S. government is taking the opportunity to sell our public lands at rock bottom prices.
Yesterday the public comment period ended on a nearly 8,000 page draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Columbia River System Operations, which includes fourteen federal dams and reservoirs in the Columbia River Basin.
The bottom line is that the wildlife trade is a threat to our public health that only stands to become greater, meaning that we could have greatly reduced the risk of all of this—maybe even prevented it altogether—by stopping wildlife…
Airborne soot is already responsible for tens of thousands of American deaths each year—and new research shows it could make Covid-19 more deadly. So why is the federal government still giving polluters a pass?
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) sued the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today over its new energy efficiency standards-setting process that will impede future efforts to make America’s appliances and equipment more efficient, significantly harming consumers and the environment.
Representing the number of honeybees that live in a healthy hive, Matthew Willey’s creations remind us of the pollinators’ plight and how our worlds intersect.
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