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...
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.
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 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...
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...
Green Investments highlights the growing need for Congress and the Administration to provide proper funding for conservation programs, communities, and environmental protection.
Comments of the Natural Resources Defense Council on EPA’s proposed federal plan requirements and model trading rules for the Clean Power Plan rule to limit power plant carbon pollution. Submitted January 21, 2016.
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 John Moore, Senior Attorney, testifies to a House subcommittee that the EPA Clean Power Plan can be implemented while maintaining a robust and reliable electric grid.
Comments submitted on December 1, 2014 on behalf of NRDC in support of the U.S. EPA's proposed Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units, 79 Fed. Reg. 34830.
This report, prepared by a coalition of national environmental and conservation organizations, illustrates how indiscriminate spending cuts will adversely affect our nation’s ability to respond to environmental challenges of a changing climate, develop our clean energy resources, and sustain our...
Coalition for Environmental Health and Justice and Natural Resources Defense Council partnered to garner technical and legal specifications and comments on a wide host of environmental issues related to the draft Environmental Impact Report and Environmental Impact Statement for the...
This report, referred to as the Green Budget, highlights the environmental and conservation communities’ Fiscal Year 2013 National Funding Priorities. The Green Budget, prepared annually by a coalition of national environmental and conservation organizations,1 illustrates how federal investments can help...