Seventeen health, community and environmental groups filed a lawsuit on Monday evening against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to implement the strengthened 2024 National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for particulate matter air pollution.
President Trump's proclamation exempting 40 commercial sterilizers from the EtO rule exposes communities to ethylene oxide, a highly toxic, cancer-causing pollutant.
President Trump's proclamation exempting 11 coke oven facilities from the coke ovens rule puts surrounding communities at risk for health issues, including cancer, anemia, nervous system damage, suppression of immune system, and leukemia.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed rollbacks to regulations that require coal-burning power plants to monitor and clean up their toxic coal ash that contaminates groundwater.
For the first time in years, the Minnesota Senate held an oversight hearing on Polluter Capture – when polluting companies exert too much influence over how our Minnesota State government agencies do, or do not, enforce the law. Community members…
Expert BlogIndiaDr. Vijay Limaye, Prima Madan, Saahi Uppalapati
NRDC’s second-annual Global Heat & Cooling Forum in New Delhi will convene global experts to shape an agenda for keeping people cooler as global temperatures rise.
President Trump sent budget priorities to Congress today that featured a sharp uptick in military spending, paid for in large part by cuts in public health and environmental programs. NRDC experts say Congress should reject it.
AB 2447, the Nitrogen Pollution Reduction Act, would require the state to protect clean water for people and ecosystems by reducing excess nitrogen from irrigated agriculture.
NRDC filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s use of the Endangered Species Committee, known as the God Squad, to exempt Gulf of Mexico oil and gas activities from the Endangered Species Act.
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