An Illinois legislator is pushing for a bill which would significantly enhance criminal penalties for anyone entering or causing damage to a very widely defined group of “critical infrastructure facilities,” effectively chilling peaceful exercise of freedom of speech, and threatening…
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...
Comments submitted on December 1, 2014 on behalf of NRDC in support of the U.S. EPA's proposed Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units, 79 Fed. Reg. 34830.
Two definitive reports, representing the work of hundreds of scientists, show the risks that climate change poses to our food system. A recent U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, including a chapter on food and agriculture is available here…
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) conducted two workshops with members of The Institute for USA and Canadian Studies (ISKRAN), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, to examine questions surrounding the future of U.S.–Russian arms control. The first meeting was held...
What’s lurking in your lake? NRDC’s assessment of freshwater harmful algal bloom programs in the United States shows what states are doing—or not doing—to keep the public informed and protected.