The Environmental Protection Agency today is proposing changes to the Lead and Copper Rule (LCR), a complex, outdated national standard for controlling lead levels in drinking water.
NRDC testified before Congressional Committees about addressing the 50-year problem of what to do with nuclear waste. And yet Congress is still reluctant to move away from common talking points which have only led to the repeated failures of the…
The California Department of Pesticide Regulation today announced that virtually all use of chlorpyrifos—a pesticide linked to learning disabilities in children—will be phased out in the state by the end of 2020, following years of pressure from public health, farmworker…
A new report presents NRDC’s research showing that our country still allows shark fins, many of them illegal, to transit through our ports unmonitored.
ReportUnited StatesElizabeth Murdock, Vanessa Villanueva
In recent decades, shark populations have suffered steep declines, due primarily to the lucrative market for shark fins, both legal and illegal. NRDC found that the United States plays a substantial, unrecognized role in facilitating the unsustainable international shark fin…
Facing protests outside its shareholders meeting and petitions from over 200,000 consumers, P&G is urged to stop sourcing from threatened species habitat and increase recycled fibers in tissue products to save forests and the climate
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