NRDC and partners submitted extensive technical comments on EPA's reconsideration of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for particulate matter (soot).
NRDC and Evergreen Action launched a report, “Powering Toward 100 Percent Clean Power by 2035,” with new modeling finding that the most effective action the Biden administration can take to tackle power sector carbon pollution is to set ambitious carbon...
NRDC and partners Sierra Club and Environmental Integrity Project sued the Environmental Protection Agency on 9/8/2021 to compel the agency to fulfill its obligations under the Clean Air Act by closing polluter loopholes in state plans under the Act.
On March 11, 2020, NRDC filed suit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit seeking review of a rule EPA finalized in March that withdrew a 2016 requirement for industry to detect and repair refrigerant leaks in...
NRDC, Environmental Defense Fund, Clean Air Task Force, and other groups submitted public comments November 19, 2019, opposing EPA’s proposal to review methane pollution standards for new sources in the oil and gas industry.
NRDC and our partners filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit against EPA for unlawfully repealing the agency’s Clean Power Plan replacing it with the so-called ACE Rule, which will produce only minor reductions...
On January 4, 2019, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Environmental Defense Fund and Clean Air Task Force submitted public comments on a proposal by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to further delay implementing emissions guidelines for existing solid waste landfills...
As part of our efforts to address climate-warming methane and other air pollutants from the oil and gas sector, NRDC and our partners submitted extensive legal and technical comments on the Environmental Protection Agency's supplement to its June 2017 proposal...
As part of our efforts to address climate-warming methane and other air pollutants from the oil and gas sector, NRDC and our partners submitted extensive legal and technical comments on the Bureau of Land Management’s second attempt to halt critical...
NRDC and partners’ motion for summary vacatur, filed August 4, 2017 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, seeking to overturn EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s 90-day administrative stay of standards of performance and emission guidelines for emissions...
The Trump administration violated the Clean Air Act in suspending critical protections against methane leaks and other dangerous air pollution from the oil and gas industry last week, according to a lawsuit filed today by the Natural Resources Defense Council...
Joint addendum of declarations in support of States’, Environmental and Public Health organizations’, Power Companies’, and Energy Trade Associations’ responses opposing motions to stay implementation of EPA’s Clean Power Plan rule, filed December 8, 2014, in the D.C. Circuit Court...
NRDC’s review and response to the report released by former Secretary of Defense William Cohen, The Cohen Group, and DLA Piper LLP – commissioned by their client The Pebble Limited Partnership – that critiqued the U.S Environmental Protection Agency’s review...
CHICAGO (October 22, 2015) — Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine has signaled he will drag the state into a fight against efforts to combat dangerous carbon pollution by joining a lawsuit to challenge the Clean Power Plan. Today’s publication of…
WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 22, 2015) – The rash of lawsuits by polluters and their allies triggered by publishing the Clean Power Plan in the Federal Register are highly unlikely to derail the landmark climate plan, key legal experts said Thursday…