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Court Battles

Litigation is in NRDC's DNA. Follow some of our landmark cases.

Building a Healthy & Equitable California

California is home to nearly 40 million residents who need affordable and clean water, air, transportation, housing, and food.

Toxics

To ensure a healthy future for our children and communities, we must address the sources of the pervasive toxic chemicals that are linked to myriad health issues, from cancer to hormone disruption.

Fossil Fuels

To successfully fight against all fossil fuel threats, we must directly challenge the dirty energy companies and their allies in power perpetuating a dangerous status quo.

Ocean

Our oceans are overfished, exploited for oil and gas, choked with pollution, and dangerously acidifying as the waters heat up. NRDC is determined to turn the tide.

Forests & Lands

Together with Indigenous leaders and local partners, NRDC is supporting efforts to save critical ecosystems from unsustainable exploitation for timber, fossil fuels, lithium, and other resources.

Clean Air

Ensuring that our air is safe to breathe has been integral to NRDC’s mission since the organization’s founding in 1970—the same year that the Clean Air Act was passed. More than 50 years later, we’re still fighting to curb air…

Drinking Water

NRDC stands in solidarity with U.S. communities on the frontlines of the fight for safe drinking water—often BIPOC and low-income, who face compounding environmental injustices.

Human Health

NRDC believes that at forefront of our collective fight for a just, sustainable, and socially equitable world is human health.

Climate Change

NRDC works with communities, allies, and decision makers at every level of government to advance policies that will yield deep cuts to carbon pollution, end our dependence on dangerous fossil fuels, and prioritize the people and ecosystems on the frontlines…

Shelley Poticha

Managing Director, Regional Impact, Center for Campaigns & Organizing

Privacy Policy

Walton Shepherd

Senior Policy Advocate, Virginia, Climate & Energy

Nia Mitchell

Community of Practice Manager, Climate & Energy

Climate Change and Health

OverviewInternational, United StatesDr. Kim Knowlton

Climate change is one of the most serious public health threats facing the nation, but few people are aware of how its impacts—from deadly heat waves and worsening air pollution to the spread of infectious diseases carried by mosquitoes and…