The New York City Coalition to End Lead Poisoning (NYCCELP) issued a report, No Excuses, NYC: Replace Lead Drinking Water Pipes Now , estimating that one in five New Yorkers may be drinking water transported through lead service lines. Experts...
Testimony submitted by NRDC's Christy Goldfuss to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Legislative Hearing on Opportunities to Improve Project Review for a Cleaner, Stronger Economy, urging improvements to the permitting process for clean energy projects.
NRDC's public comments on the New York-New Jersey Harbor and Tributaries Coastal Storm Risk Management Draft Integrated Feasibility Study and Tier 1 Environmental Impact Assessment in which the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers seeks to develop a plan to protect...
Report from the Oregon Smart Siting Collaboration (OSSC), a partnership of Defenders of Wildlife, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Oregon Natural Desert Association and Renewable Northwest, providing guidance to renewable energy developers, communities, advocacy organizations and others to help make...
A group of more than 20 environmental organizations developed a concise guide to the science-based principles and priorities for environmental monitoring that are crucial to advance responsible offshore wind development in the United States. The new guide, which NRDC helped...
NRDC and partners submitted extensive technical comments on EPA's reconsideration of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for particulate matter (soot).
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...
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.
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...
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...
John Walke, Clean Air Director and senior attorney for NRDC, gave testimony before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Wednesday, September 7, 2022, on four pieces of clean air legislation.
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.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down portions of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to re-approve continued, widespread use of glyphosate, a widely used herbicide commonly known as Roundup. EPA will have to redo parts of its analysis...
The Hariyali Green Villages initiative aims to enhance accessibility and affordability of clean energy technologies and improve livelihood opportunities at the household level in rural India. Report co-authored with the Association of Renewable Energy Agencies of States (AREAS) and Self...
