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...
Letter submitted by NRDC and seven other organizations to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, urging the revision of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement and cancellation of Lease Sale 258, which would open up over a million acres in the...
Decision by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Granting Summary Judgment for NRDC and its partners in a case challenging the Trump Administration’s 2018 Recission of the 2016 Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Methane Waste Prevention...
On April 20, 2020, NRDC filed a request for rehearing before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) of FERC’s decision to authorize the Jordan Cove liquified natural gas export terminal and the associated Pacific Connector natural gas pipeline.
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...
NRDC submitted the following comments urging the administration to change course from its proposal to limit environmental review and public participation under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Rather than promote NEPA’s values of informed and inclusive decision making, CEQ’s...
NRDC and our partners succeeded in obtaining a preliminary injunction of Secretary Zinke's second attempt to stay the Bureau of Land Management's Methane and Waste Prevention Rule from the Northern District of California, reinstating critical protections for public health, local...
As part of our efforts to address climate-warming methane and other air pollutants from the oil and gas sector, NRDC and our partners submitted extensive legal and technical comments on the Bureau of Land Management’s second attempt to halt critical...
NRDC and partners sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management over the agency’s attempt to rollback its current rules to reduce methane waste from oil and gas operations on public lands.
Written Testimony of Frances Beinecke, President, Natural Resources Defense Council for Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on "Opportunities and Challenges for Natural Gas."