NRDC and partners submitted extensive technical comments on EPA's reconsideration of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for particulate matter (soot).
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.
The Biden Administration has proposed a new federal offshore leasing program that could include leasing in as many as eleven areas in the Gulf of Mexico and Cook Inlet, Alaska and would enable continued development on the Outer Continental Shelf...
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...
Letter from Attorneys General of New York, California, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia, opposing proposed rollbacks to the Definition of Waters of the U.S. (April...
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...
Green Investments highlights the growing need for Congress and the Administration to provide proper funding for conservation programs, communities, and environmental protection.
Comments of Natural Resources Defense Council, Center for Biological Diversity, Clean Water Action, Conservancy of Southwest Florida, Earthworks, National Parks Conservation Association, and South Florida Wildlands Association regarding the environmental assessment for a proposed oil and gas plan of operations...
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...
This report, prepared by a coalition of national environmental and conservation organizations, illustrates how indiscriminate spending cuts will adversely affect our nation’s ability to respond to environmental challenges of a changing climate, develop our clean energy resources, and sustain our...
An analysis of budget sequestration impacts to the environment and natural resources authored by the Natural Resources Defense Council, World Wildlife Fund, The Wilderness Society, American Forests, National Parks Conservation Foundation, Marine Conservation Institute, and Defenders of Wildlife.