On June 21, 2023, NRDC and partner Potomac Riverkeeper Network filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Navy in federal district court in Maryland for testing weapons on the Potomac River without a Clean Water Act permit.
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.
Complaint filed by NRDC and partner organizations challenging the Final Environmental Impact Statement for Lease Sale 258 in Cook Inlet, Alaska. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has failed to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), threatening the...
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 filed a lawsuit in federal court against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today, for its unlawful removal of gray wolves from the Endangered Species Act (ESA) list. The lawsuit asks the court to throw out the Service’s decision...
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...
NRDC and partners filed a lawsuit today in federal court in the District of Columbia alleging that the National Marine Fisheries Service violated the Endangered Species Act and the Administrative Procedure Act when it declined, in 2019, to list alewife...
Lawsuit filed against the Environmental Protection Agency in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by the Natural Resources Defense Council, Environmental Justice Health Alliance, Public Citizen, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Center for Coalfield Justice, Clean Water Action...