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...
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.
Eighty-five faith-based, development, environmental, and business groups submitted a letter urging congressional appropriators to provide at least $3.3 billion in U.S. support for international programs addressing the climate crisis. The groups call on congressional leaders to make international climate finance...
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...
Petitioners call upon EPA to use its emergency powers under the Safe Drinking Water Act (“SDWA” or the “Act”), 42 U.S.C. § 300i, to take action to abate the imminent and substantial endangerment to human health caused by lead contamination...
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 Briefs and Comments regarding Pebble Mine / Bristol Bay, 2012-2014. Brief on Behalf of the Natural Resources Defense Council in Support of Petitions to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for Action Regarding the Proposed Pebble Mine Under Section 404(c)...
NRDC and 16 other environmental groups sent a letter to the Senate Finance Committee urging extension of clean energy and energy efficiency tax incentives set to expire at the end of 2013. Clean energy tax incentives are critical to reducing...
Coalition for Environmental Health and Justice and Natural Resources Defense Council partnered to garner technical and legal specifications and comments on a wide host of environmental issues related to the draft Environmental Impact Report and Environmental Impact Statement for the...
Power plants are the nation's largest source of the dangerous carbon pollution that drives global warming. In response to lawsuits from NRDC and others, EPA proposed Carbon Pollution Standards for New Power Plants on April 13, 2012. Here are NRDC's...
This report, referred to as the Green Budget, highlights the environmental and conservation communities’ Fiscal Year 2013 National Funding Priorities. The Green Budget, prepared annually by a coalition of national environmental and conservation organizations,1 illustrates how federal investments can help...
Testimony of Transportation Director Roland Hwang, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), for the October 12, 2011 on the historic clean car standards before the Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending.
NRDC is a member of the Nuclear Weapons Complex Consolidation Policy (NWCC) Network, a collaboration of six national and regional groups. This NWCC study provides the roadmap for a large and swift reduction in the nation's nuclear weapons and the...