The New York State Health Department has issued a new waiver that will allow New York City to continue to avoid having to filter its Catskill and Delaware drinking water supplies—staving off, at least for now, the multi-billion dollar costs…
Over past decades, the feeding of medically important antibiotics to healthy livestock animals has become entrenched practice. Predictably, new guidelines from the World Health Organization calling for the end to overuse of these precious medicines on farms has been met…
Many regions of the United States have overbuilt and retained too many power plants, which can be detrimental to their owners, consumers, clean alternatives like wind and solar power, and flexible resources like energy storage and demand response (compensating customers…
After a decade of promising to submit permit applications to build its giant gold and copper mine proposed at the headwaters of the world’s greatest wild salmon fishery in Bristol Bay, Alaska, Northern Dynasty Minerals—the Canadian mining company behind the…
Perhaps more than any other animal, polar bears are used to represent the dangers of climate change—as in a recent viral video. So why are deniers seizing on them too?
In 2017, Trump worked to weaken or repeal critical clean vehicle standards that protect our health, environment and economy. State leaders are charging ahead to a clean future of electrified cars and trucks. In 2018, NRDC will continue to fight…
Conservation groups took to the courts again today to protect the threatened coastal California gnatcatcher – a tiny, gray bird that lives in the rapidly declining sage brush habitat in Southern California.
Details are scarce, but Northern Dynasty Minerals is proudly trumpeting its success this week in announcing a new investor and, at long last, filing a federal permit application tomorrow—after over a decade of unfulfilled promises that this day would soon…
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