Complaint filed February 17, 2023 to challenge a California Department of Pesticide Regulation's policy allowing pesticide-treated seeds—one of the largest uses of pesticides in the state—to go unregulated by the agency.
A letter from NRDC, PEER, SELC, and Earthjustice urging EPA to adopt an Agency-wide science-based definition of PFAS that is based on the hazard characteristic of persistence that defines the full class of PFAS and is in line with the...
Comments submitted to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission by NRDC, et al ., suggesting improvements to how the agency addresses environmental justice in its programs, policies, and activities.
Letter submitted to the EPA supporting a request by the United Tribes of Bristol Bay for action under Section 404(c) of the Clean Water Act to protect the Bristol Bay Region.
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...
In 2019, New Hampshire issued rules regulating four Per- and polyfluoroalkyl in the state’s drinking water and groundwater. 3M has produced these dangerous chemicals for years and is now challenging the new rules. Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) and NRDC (Natural...
NRDC legal and scientific comments to EPA detailing how it continues to put human health and wildlife, including monarch butterflies and critical pollinators, in harm’s way from the unnecessary over-use glyphosate, the main ingredient in glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) including Roundup.
NRDC comments on EPA’s draft toxicity assessments for perfluorobutane sulfonic acid (PFBS) and hexafluoroproyplene oxide (or GenX chemicals) call for EPA to more carefully consider the health risks of PFBS and GenX chemicals individually, and in tandem with other PFAS...
NRDC comments outline why New Jersey’s proposed Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) for perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) are not fully health-protective and urge New Jersey to implement final rules that would establish a much stricter MCL for PFOA...