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…
The Trump administration and Congress leveled attacks this year on the environment, public health and social justice while Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria wreaked havoc on Florida, Texas, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, wildfires raged in the West…
Throughout 2017, when it comes to wind and solar, the Trump administration has been doing its best Grinch impersonation—he and his team seem to want to be the executive branch that stole our clean energy future.
The Alberta tar sands have become synonymous with global climate change, but their production process wreaks destruction across a huge region of North America’s boreal forest.
The Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) has denied a request to avoid air pollution monitoring requirements at a facility that stores neurotoxic manganese on the city’s Southeast Side. Community and environmental organizations urged the City to increase monitoring at the facility operated by…
The Pebble Limited Partnership today announced it intends to file a federal permit application tomorrow for the proposed Pebble Mine, a controversial project in Alaska’s Bristol Bay that would threaten the most productive wild salmon ecosystem in the world.
Here's my list of the climate change studies, news reports, and even fiction that made waves in 2017. It's been a tumultuous year for climate impacts ranging from 3 major hurricanes striking the U.S. to a Delaware-sized chunk of Antarctica…
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