The first-of-its-kind announcement addresses the public health crisis of “forever chemicals”—which can now be found in the blood of virtually every American.
NRDC and our members and activists submitted almost 39,000 individual comments telling NOAA to take strong and effective measures to significantly reduce the risk of right whales experiencing serious injuries and mortalities in U.S. fisheries.
President Trump seems dead set on blowing up the historic clean car peace treaty forged ten years ago between the automobile industry, the federal government, and leading states.
Leaders in the House and Senate today introduced legislation that would rescind the Trump administration’s regulations gutting the Endangered Species Act. Led by Representatives Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), Don Beyer (D-VA), and Debbie Dingell (D-MI) and by Senator Udall, the Protect…
The Home Depot has agreed to stop purchasing carpet that contains PFAS in U.S. and Canada by the end of this year. Scientists have long acknowledged a host of health harms associated with the class of “forever chemicals.” The move…
Through wall-size juxtapositions of bright, open flowers and jagged, disjointed lines, artist Consuelo Jimenez Underwood explores the fractured landscape along the U.S.–Mexico border.
Colorado's PUC seems to have ruled that the price of electricity will not affect the adoption of electric vehicles, or that environmental interests affected by electric vehicle adoption are not tangible.
The bill addresses the need for California to provide clear direction to state agencies that the state can and must block reckless rollbacks of long-standing federal policies by an exploitative Trump administration hell-bent on undermining protections for California’s workers, air…
President Trump has been talking a lot lately about light bulbs and complaining that they make people look orange, are toxic, and cost too much. He’s sadly mistaken on all front. Let’s correct the record.
A proposed settlement for the closure of the Edwards coal plant outside of Peoria, Illinois by the end of 2022 was announced today by environmental and health organizations and the plant’s owner. The Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, Respiratory…
In protests around the globe, the next generation is sending a collective message to world leaders to act on climate change. Here, four teenage activists tell us their personal reasons for striking.
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