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Facts vs. Trump: Yes, We Do Make Wind Power Here

January 13, 2017 Expert BlogNathanael Greene

EPA Keeps Clean Car Standards Strong for 2025

January 13, 2017 Expert BlogLuke Tonachel

EPA Expands Use of Dow Chemical’s Enlist Duo, Despite Risks to Monarch Butterflies and Human Health

January 13, 2017 Press ReleaseChicago

EPA Maintains Strong Clean Car Standards

January 13, 2017 Press Release

WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency announced today it is keeping in place the clean car pollution standards it set in 2012 for automobile model years 2022 to 2025.

Illinois Steps Up on Lead in School Drinking Water

January 12, 2017 Expert BlogMeleah Geertsma

State requires elementary schools to test for lead in water, leaves mitigation to schools and parents.

NRDC Joins Women’s March on Washington as Presenting Environmental Partner

January 12, 2017 Press ReleaseNew York

NEW YORK, NY – Today, the Women’s March on Washington announced the Natural Resources Defense Council as a presenting partner focusing on climate action and the protection of our rights to clean air, safe water and healthy communities. Women, low-income…

Obama Administration Designates/Expands National Monuments

January 12, 2017 Press Release

WASHINGTON – President Obama today designated three new national monuments, and expanded two existing monuments.

2016 Efficiency Standards to Create $75 Billion in Savings

January 11, 2017 Expert BlogLauren Urbanek

Nearly 200,000 Call for Action on Tar Sands Tanker Threat

January 11, 2017 Expert BlogJosh Axelrod

Dear HUD Secretary-Nominee, People Are at the Center of Housing and the Environment

January 11, 2017 Expert BlogShelley Poticha

Flint Drinking Water Fails to Meet Federal Standards, Yet Michigan Ready to Close the Case on the Water Crisis

January 11, 2017 Press Release

CHICAGO – Michigan officials’ recent assertions that Flint’s water system is in compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act are false; the data simply do not show that the system’s lead pipes have fully recovered from the damage caused by…

House Approves Third Anti-Regulatory Bill, Attacking Public Protections

January 11, 2017 Press Release

WASHINGTON (January 11, 2017) – The House today approved the Regulatory Accountability Act (RAA), another in a series of measures attacking a broad range of public safeguards.

Scott Pruitt, You’ve Been Warned

January 11, 2017 Latest NewsUnited StatesJeff Turrentine

If Trump’s pick for EPA chief thinks that Americans are cool with a weak, polluter-friendly agency, he should Google the name “Anne Gorsuch Burford.”

World’s Oldest Orca Dies, Pod Without its Compass

January 11, 2017 Expert BlogUnited States, Washington, Oregon, CaliforniaGiulia C.S. Good Stefani

RGGI Report: Less Pollution Drives Billions in Health Gains

January 11, 2017 Expert BlogJackson Morris

The pioneering cap-and-invest program to cut carbon pollution from the power sector in nine Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states has created $5.7 billion in health savings throughout the region and in neighboring states.