
Battling Urgent Threats
We combine the expertise of some 700 scientists, lawyers, and advocates with the power of more than three million members and online activists to confront our planet's most pressing problems.
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Spraying an Antibiotic on Citrus Groves Will Harm Worker Health
NRDC and our partners are suing to reverse the EPA’s dangerous decision to expand the use of medically important streptomycin as an unproven solution to citrus greening.
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EPA Takes First Step Toward Undoing Trump’s Illegal and Woefully Weak Lead and Copper Rule
The agency is pausing on the previous administration’s changes to the rule in order to consult with communities who are most impacted.
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Why Racial Justice Is a Climate Issue
The transition to the Biden/Harris administration has marked a wave of change in how we perceive both the challenges of our time and the promise of our nation.
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How to Start Saving the Planet in 100 Days: the Joe Biden Edition
Here’s what we want to see from our new president on the environmental front between now and May.
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Court Retains Ban on Toxic Phthalate Chemicals in Children’s Products and Toys
The much-needed protections against the harmful chemicals will stay in place for now, keeping children safe.
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Cities: Time to Think Bigger on Climate
After four years of defunding and deregulation from the Trump White House, how can cities step up as climate leaders under a Biden administration?
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The Climate Crisis Is Inflicting Costly Damage to Our Health
We can’t ignore the profound and expensive human suffering triggered by climate change. Watch our video to see why.
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NRDC Responds to COVID-19
This unprecedented public health crisis requires bold, equitable, science-based action.
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Our Victories
Some of NRDC's major achievements among the hundreds of victories we’ve accomplished to make good on the founding goal of protecting our environment for generations to come.
Earth's Best Defense
We focus on fundamental issues in order to protect the natural systems on which all life depends.
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Climate Change
To protect future generations, we work to cut carbon pollution and expand clean energy.
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Communities
NRDC works with local partners to help create strong, just, and resilient communities.
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Energy
Expanding clean energy protects our health, air, climate, and last wild places.
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Food
Choosing what we eat has a huge impact on our health and our environment.
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Health
NRDC strives to rid our food, air, water, and household products from toxic chemicals.
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Oceans
NRDC works to protect our world's oceans from pollution and exploitation.
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Water
Clean water sustains our communities, economies, ecosystems, and health.
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The Wild
Unspoiled wilderness protects our watersheds, cleans air, and shelters diverse species.
A Legacy of Impact
NRDC has helped pass our nation's bedrock environmental laws, ensured those laws are enforced, and held polluters accountable. We’ve got 50 years of wins to show for it.
Local Fights
Whether in California or Chicago, India or Canada, we help protect communities around the world using decades of legal, scientific, and policy expertise.
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Midwest Dispatch
Fighting Inequity with Solar Power
Minneapolis’s 4d program to boost energy efficiency and affordable housing in the city is kicking it up a notch.
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Blog Post
Chance for a More Resilient and Equitable Food System in California
With AB 125, California has an opportunity to reshape our food and farming system to help protect workers in fields, kitchens, and grocery stores while providing our most vulnerable communities improved access to healthy, sustainably produced food.
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Western Dispatch
Honolulu Charts a Path Away from Fossil Fuels
As part of the American Cities Climate Challenge, a coalition of climate advocates just helped pass a series of bills that will curb emissions and rein in Honolulu’s sky-high cost of living at once.
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Blog Post
What Went Wrong in Texas? Why We Need to Investigate
The deadly winter storms and power outages in Texas last month are just the latest example of why the United States needs a National Disaster Safety Board.
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Blog Post
Colorado Must Center Equity in Climate Action
Historical & present-day environmental racism threatens the health, economic prosperity, and well-being of marginalized communities across Colorado. That's why we're proud to have signed on to a letter calling for equity to be centered in climate action.
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Southeast Dispatch
Why Florida Needs an Offshore Drilling Ban—One That’s Permanent
While the state can take solace in the recent moratorium extension, its waters are still at risk from the devastating impacts of seismic testing.
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Blog Post
Time to End New York’s Fossil Fuel-Related Tax Breaks
Ending the tax benefits that New York State offers to the oil and gas industry is a critical way to simultaneously tackle the global climate crisis while saving taxpayer money.
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Blog Post
Pittsburgh Poised to Thrive on Biden’s Plan
An equitable recovery powered by climate action means millions of well-paying jobs—with the Steel City, and other places like it, at the center of it all.
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Latest News
Local Change Is Creating Big Impact
A rundown of some of our most significant wins in communities across the country.