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New Drinking Water Report: Communities of Color More Likely to Suffer Drinking Water Violations For Years

September 24, 2019 Press ReleaseUnited States, Flint, Newark

Flint and Newark put a face on EPA data confirming unequal protection under federal water law

Settlement Requires Feds to Act on Habitat Protections for Endangered Rusty Patched Bumble Bee

September 24, 2019 Press ReleaseUnited States

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and US Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) settled a lawsuit over the failure to protect habitat necessary for the recovery of the rusty patched bumble bee, as required under the Endangered Species Act. The…

How Healthy Soil Can Help Reduce Harmful Algal Blooms

September 23, 2019 Expert BlogInternationalLara Bryant

Why are there too many nutrients in the water? Mostly because we are putting too many nutrients onto the land.

How the Clean Water Act Can Combat Harmful Algal Blooms

September 23, 2019 Expert BlogUnited StatesJon Devine

NRDC'S findings show public officials are not doing enough to test for and prevent nitrogen and phosphorus pollution.

Is Your Favorite Waterway Facing the Threat of Toxic Algae?

September 23, 2019 Expert BlogUnited StatesKate Poole

Freshwater Flows, Reduced Diversions Help Abate Toxic Algae

September 23, 2019 Expert BlogUnited States, CaliforniaMelanie Sturm

Most Leaders on Wrong Side of Science at U.N. Climate Summit

September 23, 2019 Expert BlogInternationalJake Schmidt, Brendan Guy

Though Latest Newark Test Results Are Encouraging, NRDC Says “Trust But Verify”

September 23, 2019 Expert BlogUnited States, New Jersey, NewarkNRDC

The fight for safe water for all of the city’s residents continues on.

India Announces Stronger Climate Action

September 23, 2019 Expert BlogIndiaAnjali Jaiswal, Sameer Kwatra

Prime Minister Modi discussed several concrete measures which will deepen India’s action on climate change.

NRDC Map and Report Reveal Rise in Harmful Algal Blooms

September 23, 2019 Press ReleaseUnited States

As harmful algal blooms (HABs) proliferate in the United States, two new releases from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) illuminate the scale of the problem nationally and detail a major pollution source helping to fuel it. A new interactive…

Big Ag Is Hiding in Plain Sight, and It’s Making Us Sick

September 23, 2019 Expert BlogUnited StatesValerie Baron

The United States raises more than 9 billion animals for food each year, the vast majority on industrial facilities that not only confine animals in horrific conditions but are also major polluters of the air and water.

What’s Lurking in Your Lake? NRDC State HAB Program Report

September 23, 2019 Expert BlogUnited StatesArohi Sharma

Freshwater HABs damage inland ecosystems; threaten public health; poison pets, livestock, and fish; and compromise recreational economies. Every single state has experienced a HAB, but a NRDC assessment of states’ freshwater HAB programs shows that states are not doing enough…

We Can’t Solve the Climate Crisis Without Forest Protection

September 23, 2019 Expert BlogInternationalJennifer Skene, Carolina Herrera, Jessica Carey-Webb, Brendan Guy

It's been a summer of catastrophic headlines about the world's forests—our best ally in the fight against climate change.

No podemos resolver la crisis climática sin proteger a los bosques

September 23, 2019 Expert BlogInternationalJennifer Skene, Carolina Herrera, Jessica Carey-Webb, Brendan Guy

Ha sido un verano de titulares catastróficos sobre los bosques del mundo. Estamos prendiendo fuego a nuestros bosques—nuestro mejor aliado en la lucha contra el cambio climático.

CAFOs: What We Don’t Know Is Hurting Us

September 23, 2019 ReportUnited StatesJon Devine, Valerie Baron

Corporate livestock facilities, known as concentrated animal feeding operations (or CAFOs), can threaten the health of communities and pollute our air and water. A decade of NRDC research reveals that the EPA has left these health threats largely unmonitored.