NRDC, as part of a coalition of 36 organizations, submitted comments on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed National Primary Drinking Water Regulation for six PFAS. Also included as exhibits are technical comments and further review of EPA’s quantified health...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
NRDC and partners sent a letter to Congressional leaders in support of more equitable transportation portions in any legislation addressing infrastructure to address climate change and racial equity.
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.
In a letter to Senate and Energy and Natural Resources Committee leaders, NRDC joins 15 other national environmental organizations and 12 regional or state based environmental organizations in supporting the nomination of Jennifer Granholm as the next Secretary of Energy.
NRDC and other public health and environmental groups filed a court petition today demonstrating California and other states have the authority to set ambitious clean car standards. The Trump administration has issued a regulation that would undermine that authority; the...
Conservation, environmental-justice and public-health groups filed a legal petition today calling for the U.S. Department of Agriculture to ban dangerous on-site incineration and unlined burial of millions of industrially raised farm animals killed during the COVID-19 emergency. The legal action...
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, 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.
Testimony of NRDC Senior Policy Advocate Khalil Shahyd before the U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis Oct. 17, 2019, hearing on “Solving the Climate Crisis: Cleaner, Stronger Buildings.”