Letter urging the Biden-Harris administration to embrace actions to reform the International Financial Institutions (IFIs) for strengthened climate action.
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...
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.
The Hariyali Green Villages initiative aims to enhance accessibility and affordability of clean energy technologies and improve livelihood opportunities at the household level in rural India. Report co-authored with the Association of Renewable Energy Agencies of States (AREAS) and Self...
A critical component of fighting climate change is ensuring that government financial regulatory agencies are properly considering and accounting for climate risk in their decision making, regulations, and actions. It is critical that policymakers ensure that digital assets are created...
Scientific comments submitted to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s IRIS program on the draft toxicological review of Perfluorohexanoic Acid (PFHxA; CASRN 307244) and related salts.
Scientific comments submitted to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s IRIS program on the draft toxicological review of Perfluorobutanoic Acid (PFBA) and related compound ammonium perfluorobutanoic acid [CASRN 375-22-4, CASRN 10495-86-0].
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.
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...
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...
When industrial polluters contaminate rivers or pump dangerous emissions into the air, strong environmental laws can help rein them in and hold them accountable.
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.
Letter from NRDC and its allies urging the California State Water Resources Control Board to perform comprehensive monitoring of PFAS in the state’s drinking water and to regulate PFAS as a class.
Presentation by Ed Osann, NRDC, and Joelle Wirth, RS, REHS, Coconino County, Arizona, at the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) Annual Education Conference on July 10, 2019, on the imperative to “Reinvent the Toilet”, ISO Product Standard, and application of...
