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Urban Change You Won’t Hear Coming: Electric Delivery Fleets

December 12, 2018 Expert BlogAda Statler

Electric delivery vehicles offer an exciting potential solution to urban noise and much more.

McDonald’s Ups the Ante with New Beef Antibiotics Policy

December 11, 2018 Expert BlogUnited StatesLena Brook

Big Macs are poised to join the 21st century.

McDonald’s Moves to Protect Public Health By Reducing Antibiotics Use in Beef

December 11, 2018 Expert BlogNRDC

The world’s largest burger chain is leading the way for other fast-food restaurants to address the critical issue of antibiotic-resistant superbugs that impact human health.

Trump Administration Moves Forward in Rolling Back Clean Water Protections

December 11, 2018 Expert BlogNRDC

The EPA’s new definition of the Obama-era safeguard would allow polluters to dirty our critically important streams, tributaries, and wetlands—and threaten the water supply of millions of Americans.

Challenge to State Rules Stirs Up New Michigan Lead In Drinking Water Crisis

December 11, 2018 Press ReleaseMichigan

Water Utilities Attack Lead and Copper Rule Protections as Flint Water Crisis Drags On.

McDonald’s Commits to Reducing Antibiotic Use in its Global Beef Supply

December 11, 2018 Press ReleaseInternational

Action by World’s Largest Burger Chain Could Signal Shift for Fast Food Industry

Trump to Move to Increase Water Pollution

December 11, 2018 Press ReleaseUnited States

The Trump Administration will propose today to gut key safeguards in the Clean Water Act. The Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers are set to issue a proposed rule that would exempt oil drillers, industrial sites, developers and…

Groups Sue Feds to Stop Seismic Airgun Blasting in Atlantic Ocean

December 11, 2018 Press ReleaseUnited States

First Step Toward Offshore Drilling Jeopardizes Critically Endangered North Atlantic Right Whale, Puts Marine Life at Risk

Final Farm Bill Keeps Environmental Safeguards Intact

December 11, 2018 Expert BlogNRDC

Congressional negotiators managed to eliminate the worst of the proposed anti-environment provisions that threatened our food, water, and wildlife.

Learning to Love the Lamprey

December 11, 2018 Latest NewsUnited StatesJason Bittel

In their native habitat in the Pacific Northwest, these imperiled fish are important ecosystem engineers and food web heroes—despite their bloodsucking lifestyle.

Farm Bill Negotiators Ditch Environmental Rollbacks

December 11, 2018 Press ReleaseUnited States

Congressional negotiators released a compromise farm bill today that largely steers clear of undercutting bedrock environmental protections.

NRDC and Partners Sue to Protect Marine Life from Seismic Blasting

December 11, 2018 Expert BlogNRDC

The harmful practice to search for fossil fuels puts marine creatures at risk, including critically endangered species.

SWRCB Should Finally Adopt New Protections for our Rivers

December 10, 2018 Expert BlogDoug Obegi

DOE Stalls Clean Energy R&D: Risking Jobs & Competitiveness

December 10, 2018 Expert BlogJackie Wong, Madhur Boloor

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) may be sitting on approximately $600 million in Fiscal Year 2018 (FY18) funding for clean energy research and development (R&D), despite clear and strong congressional guidance to invest public dollars in new technologies and…

Thousands Urge Cuomo to Support Full Fracking Ban in the DRB

December 10, 2018 Expert BlogRob Friedman