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.
Opinion and order from Judge Katzmann granting NRDC et al. request to dismiss vaquita lawsuit following U.S. government embargo of certain gillnet fisheries that threaten the species' existence.
WASHINGTON – The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and partners today sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the agency’s recently announced non-enforcement policy, which allows companies to use COVID-19 as a reason to stop monitoring and reporting pollution—without…
Letter and comments from NRDC Senior Attorney Jon Devine to EPA’s Michael McDavit and Army Corps of Engineers’ Jennifer Moyer, on behalf of NRDC, Alliance for the Great Lakes, Environmental Law and Policy Center, and New Jersey Conservation Foundation opposed...
The U.S. Court of International Trade in New York today ordered the Trump administration to ban seafood imports from Mexico caught with gillnets that kill the critically endangered vaquita porpoise. The court order follows a lawsuit that NRDC and other...
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...
NRDC filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency today to compel the agency to issue a standard for perchlorate that protects public health.
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 review and response to the report released by former Secretary of Defense William Cohen, The Cohen Group, and DLA Piper LLP – commissioned by their client The Pebble Limited Partnership – that critiqued the U.S Environmental Protection Agency’s review...
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to respond to NRDC’s February 2014 petition requesting urgent review of glyphosate-containing pesticides in light of serious harms to monarch butterflies...