On February 13, 2023, NRDC and other groups submitted public comments on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s updated proposed federal standards to cut dangerous methane pollution from the nation’s oil and gas industry. NRDC also submitted comments on EPA’s updated...
Report prepared by Point Blue Conservation Science for NRDC, synthesizing scientific literature to ensure that wetlands are specifically and appropriately included in global and national biodiversity conservation goals.
The 90 Billion Ton Opportunity: Lifecycle Refrigerant Management lays out tangible interventions for federal and state policymakers, major corporations, and equipment owners and operators to minimize refrigerant leaks and maximize end-of-life recovery and reclamation. Embracing Lifecycle Refrigerant Management globally can...
The Biden Administration has proposed a new federal offshore leasing program that could include leasing in as many as eleven areas in the Gulf of Mexico and Cook Inlet, Alaska and would enable continued development on the Outer Continental Shelf...
Comments submitted by NRDC and jointly with Con Edison to the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority on the Climate Action Council Draft Scoping Plan.
Report prepared for NRDC by the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, assessing the extent of acidizing practices in Florida and to highlight many of the potential environmental impacts of oil and gas development in the southern part of...
Letter submitted by NRDC and seven other organizations to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, urging the revision of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement and cancellation of Lease Sale 258, which would open up over a million acres in the...
Conservation groups sued the Tejon Ranch Company for breach of the landmark 2008 Tejon Ranch Conservation and Land Use Agreement, which preserved 90 percent of the massive 270,000-acre ranch – the largest private landholding in California. Tejon Ranch Company promised...
On May 28, 2020, NRDC filed a petition for review in the D.C. Circuit challenging the decision of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to authorize the Jordan Cove liquified natural gas export terminal and the associated Pacific Connector natural gas...
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...