A Bi-Partisan budget bill includes some encouraging provisions that should improve rebuilding efforts in the wake of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria. And it does not include two poison pills that the House had included in the Disaster Supplemental passed…
At its 50th anniversary celebration in Sacramento, the California Air Resources Board today awarded the Natural Resources Defense Council’s David Hawkins its highest honor, the Haagen-Smit Clean Air Award, in recognition of Hawkins’ nearly half-century of leadership on clean air…
Los Angeles, the nation’s second-largest city, took a bold step toward reducing climate pollution this week when its City Council adopted an amendment aimed at making steep reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from commercial and residential buildings, including by…
The U.S. Energy Information Administration released its annual long-term forecast for America’s energy system. 2018's big message: despite the administration’s efforts to bolster dirty energy, the nation is still becoming cleaner and more efficient every day.
Even if the Trump administration removes Florida from its proposal for offshore drilling, the state faces a significant threat onshore: in the Everglades.
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By sanctioning imports of elephant and lion trophies from Zimbabwe, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ignored concerns about illegal poaching. NRDC and partners are fighting for these majestic animals.
The Natural Resources Defense Council and the National Wildlife Federation today filed a lawsuit to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers from illegally delaying implementation of the Clean Water Rule. The complaint, filed in federal…
A GOP and agrochemical industry effort to discredit and defund the World Health Organization’s cancer research agency is a threat to public health, Dr. Jennifer Sass, a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council, told the House Science Committee…
Some proponents of new pipelines point to the recent cold snap and claim that more fracked gas pipeline capacity is needed. However, the facts don’t back this up.
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