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NRDC Welcomes Debate on Need to Curb Carbon Pollution, Combat Climate Change

February 11, 2015 Press Release

WASHINGTON (February 11, 2015) – At a hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee today, Sens. David Vitter (R-La.) and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) accused the Natural Resources Defense Council of exerting undue influence over the Environmental Protection Agency’s…

Wanted: Green Acres: How Philadelphia's Greened Acre Retrofit Program Is Catalyzing Low-Cost Green Infrastructure Retrofits on Private Property

February 11, 2015 Issue BriefUnited States, Pennsylvania, PhiladelphiaAlisa Valderrama

Teaming Up with Termites

February 11, 2015 Latest NewsJason Bittel

The insects’ mounds may be unlikely allies in the fight against desertification.

The Glow Man and the Sea

February 11, 2015 Latest NewsUnited StatesAlisa Opar

This summer John Sparks will don a 530-pound suit and plunge 1,000 feet into the Atlantic—all to find some Day-Glo fish.

Coming to a County Near You: Community Solar Helps to Expand Access to Clean Energy Benefits

February 11, 2015 Expert BlogUnited StatesKatharine McCormick

Pullman National Monument: A Reminder Of The Lessons We Should Be Taking From The Past

February 10, 2015 Expert BlogHenry Henderson

Geoengineering: Research is Prudent, But No Substitute for Carbon Pollution Cuts

February 10, 2015 Press Release

WASHINGTON (February 10, 2015) -- The National Research Council, the research arm of the National Academy of Sciences, today released a report on hypothetical technological fixes that might lessen some of the dangerous impacts of climate change. The following is…

Groups Go To Court to Protect Blueback Herring from Extinction

February 10, 2015 Press Release

Washington, D.C. – The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and a coalition of fishing and watershed protection groups filed a complaint today in federal court seeking to reverse a decision by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) not to list…