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New Reports Show Significant Consumer Savings from California Climate Policies

April 1, 2016 Expert BlogAlex Jackson

For decades now, the principal argument against taking action to mitigate climate change is that we can’t afford it. While this narrative has always distorted the truth relative to the costs of inaction (what we truly can’t afford), it is…

New York State Enacts Electric Vehicle Consumer Rebate Program

April 1, 2016 Expert BlogLuke Tonachel

Kudos go out today to New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state’s legislators for incorporating consumer rebates toward the purchase of new electric vehicles (EVs) into the state’s annual budget for the first time.

Climate Mitigation Plan for Gas Leak at Aliso Canyon Long on Ambition, Short on Details

April 1, 2016 Expert BlogAlex Jackson

For nearly four months, a massive leak at Southern California Gas Company’s Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility in Los Angeles pumped nearly 100,000 tons of methane into the atmosphere – constituting the largest methane leak U.S. history. It took…

California Is Finally Enjoying Some Rainfall—and So Are Its Invasive Species

March 31, 2016 DispatchCaliforniaAlisa Opar

The much-needed El Niño downpours might be helping exotic snakes, insects, and plants spread into new areas.

California Energy Commission proposes new efficiency standards that will cut computer energy use, saving Californians $400 million annually

March 31, 2016 Expert BlogPierre Delforge

The California Energy Commission's (CEC) today released its latest proposal for mandating more energy efficient computers and monitors.

Groups Sue to Force FDA to Act on Chemical in Food Packaging

March 31, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON (March 31, 2016) – The Natural Resources Defense Council and Center for Food Safety, on behalf of four other public health and environmental organizations, sued the Food and Drug Administration today to force it to act on a petition…

New Testing on BPA in Food Cans Shows Good, Bad & Ugly; Highlights Need for Safer Alternatives

March 30, 2016 Expert BlogDr. Veena Singla

Report: Clean Energy Economy Employs More than 2.5 Million Americans, Poised for More Growth

March 30, 2016 Expert BlogLauren Kubiak

More than 2.5 million Americans work in clean energy, according to a new study released yesterday from the national nonpartisan business group Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), an NRDC affiliate.

NRDC, Greenpeace Canada Urge Quebec to Reject Logging Roads in Boreal Forest’s Broadback Valley Forest

March 30, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON (March 30, 2016) – The Natural Resources Defense Council and Greenpeace Canada today called on the Quebec government to reject a bid by logging companies to build nearly 50 miles of access roads into the heart of Canada’s Broadback…

Docking Diesel Pollution

March 29, 2016 NRDC in ActionLos Angeles, California, Long BeachNicole Greenfield

How NRDC is protecting the health of communities by helping clear the air at some of the world’s busiest ports.

Daily Doses

March 29, 2016 Press Release

How safe are your household chemicals?

President’s Advisory Council on Antibiotic Resistance Fails to Reduce Overuse in Livestock

March 29, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON (March 29, 2016) – A one-year progress report released today by President Obama’s Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria reveals federal experts have so far failed to address one of the main drivers behind the epidemic: overuse of human…

Mexico Should Adopt Overdue Heavy-Duty Vehicle Emissions Standards

March 29, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON (March 29, 2016) – Leading U.S. and Mexico clean air and health advocates today urged the Mexican government to stand up to polluters and finalize long-delayed heavy-duty vehicle emissions standards, critically needed to address the country’s harmful air pollution…

Clean Air Experts: Appeals Court Should Uphold Sound and Sensible Clean Power Plan

March 29, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON (March 29, 2016) –A federal Court of Appeals should uphold the Environmental Protection Agency’s sensible, legal and fair Clean Power Plan, and reject polluters’ deeply flawed arguments against the landmark plan to curb dangerous power plant carbon pollution, clean…

Court Leaves Rules in Place that Protect Tongass Rainforest Wildlands from Damaging Logging, Road Construction

March 28, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 28, 2015) – The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to hear a last-ditch effort by the State of Alaska to exempt America’s largest national forest from a national rule protecting undeveloped, road-free national forest areas from logging…