Any day now, the Trump administration will officially open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling. But Congress will not allow the destruction of America’s Serengeti to go down without a fight.
Governor Andrew Cuomo today signed into law legislation to phase out the use of toxic chemicals known as PFAS in firefighting foam. PFAS have been found to contaminate a significant portion of New York’s drinking water sources. These “forever chemicals”…
From the Arctic Ocean, to the Arctic Refuge, to the Western Arctic, NRDC and our partners have led the charge in 2019 to save the American Arctic from senseless, destructive, climate-wrecking fossil fuel development.
As the planet heated up to record breaking levels, the seas continued to rise, and wildfires, storms, floods, or other manifestations of climate change made headlines every single day, the stream of climate change literature turned into a deluge. This…
General Electric (GE) deserves a lump of coal for Christmas. Why? GE claims that their coal plants are the solution to energy poverty. But the reality is, the world doesn’t need GE’s dirty, expensive coal plants. And it shouldn’t listen…
Wind and solar power continued to make great gains in 2019. Would they have made greater gains with a more supportive president? Absolutely. Are the gains enough to stave off the worst effects of the climate crisis? Not by a…
