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Flint—At Long Last—Will Receive Funding for New Water Pipes

December 10, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON – Flint, Michigan will receive at least $100 million to begin funding the needed work of replacing lead service lines that deliver drinking water throughout the city, with the Senate’s passage today of the Water Resources Development Act. However…

STUDY: Long-Dreaded Antibiotic-Resistant Superbug Discovered on U.S. Pig Farms

December 5, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON – Highly transmissible resistance to critical, last-resort antibiotics called carbapenems has been found in bacteria on farms in the U.S. for the first time, according to a new study released today in a journal of the American Society for…

NRDC Annual Energy Report: The U.S. "Clean Energy Revolution" Is Making Historic Gains and Will Not Be Reversed

December 5, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON – America’s transition to a clean energy economy is irrevocably underway and delivering deep pollution reductions, with coal use at record lows but renewable energy higher than ever, according to the Fourth Annual Energy Report released today by the…

Critical Victory for Standing Rock Sioux

December 4, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON – The Army Corps of Engineers denied today a key easement permit under Lake Oahe for Energy Transfer Partners. This decision is a major victory from the Standing Rock Sioux, who have been fighting to protect their land, water…

Illinois General Assembly Passes Essential Clean Energy Bill

December 1, 2016 Press Release

SPRINGFIELD, IL – After more than a year of intensive stakeholder negotiations, the Illinois General Assembly passed a sweeping energy bill today. The Future Energy Jobs Bill contains essential changes to the state’s stalled renewable energy policies and significantly increases…

New Draft EU Energy Policies Take Small Step to Limit Burning of Trees for Electricity, but Multiple Loopholes Threaten to Render it Meaningless

November 30, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON – Responding to public pressure and signaling progress in a years-long environmental campaign, the European Commission (EC) today took a step toward curtailing the dangerous, continent-wide expansion of burning trees to generate electricity by proposing to remove misguided subsidies…

EPA Plans To Keep Clean Car Standards Strong

November 30, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it will keep in place the existing carbon pollution standards for automobile model years 2022 to 2025.

L.A. County Agrees to Fund $4 Million in Stormwater Projects and Watts Green Street

November 29, 2016 Press ReleaseCalifornia

Settlement with NRDC and LA Waterkeeper will support regional clean water projects and long-standing revitalization efforts in the historic community

NRDC Applauds Obama Administration Move to Exclude Arctic from Oil and Gas Drilling

November 18, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON – The Obama Administration today announced it will exclude the Arctic Ocean from oil and gas leasing for the next five years.

Ten New U.S. Cities Join the City Energy Project to Cut Climate Pollution from Buildings

November 15, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON — Mayors from 10 U.S. cities today announced that they are joining the City Energy Project, a united effort to address their largest source of energy use and climate pollution: buildings. By the year 2030, the 20 participating cities…

New “Carbon Trap” Report: G20 Nations Financed $76 Billion in Coal Development Worldwide

November 14, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON – In a glaring conflict with their global climate commitments, the world’s largest economies are continuing to pour billions into financing of overseas coal power plants, coal mining and coal infrastructure—trapping the world into decades of dangerous carbon emissions…

President’s Actions to Accelerate EV Deployment Exemplify Sprint-To-The-Finish Attitude

November 3, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON (Nov. 3, 2016) -- The White House today announced a broad package of initiatives to foster the development of electric vehicles, including a nationwide infrastructure system to support them.

Environmental Community Calls for Reinstatement of Emergency Water Use Standards in Light of Declining Conservation

November 1, 2016 Press ReleaseCalifornia

September Water Usage Show Californians Continue to Backslide on Conservation

HUD Prepares for the Impacts of Climate Change

October 27, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is moving forward with a proposed rule today to ensure that affordable housing and economic development projects are protected from sea level rise and the impacts of flooding. The…

People across Globe Tell European Union: New Bioenergy Policies Must Protect Climate, Crops, Forests

October 20, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON – Environmental organizations today wrapped up a massive social media campaign that directed Twitter messages at two powerful European Commission members who this autumn are charged with helping overhaul crucial European Union bioenergy policies.

NRDC and School Groups Petition USDA to Offer Responsibly Raised Chicken in National School Lunch Program

October 20, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON – Schools should be able to procure chicken raised without the routine use of medically important antibiotics from the Department of Agriculture through its USDA Foods program, according to a petition filed today by the Natural Resources Defense Council…

The World is Poised to Phase Down Climate-damaging HFC Super Pollutants

October 14, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON – The world community is expected to adopt an agreement in Kigali, Rwanda, early Saturday to start phasing down the powerful climate-warming gases called hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) through a legally-binding amendment to the Montreal Protocol, the treaty that saved the…

New Poll Shows Robust Support for Permanently Protecting Arctic, Atlantic from Drilling

October 13, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON – Most Americans—especially millennials—would support a move by President Obama to permanently protect the Arctic and Atlantic oceans by barring future offshore leasing for oil and gas drilling, according to a new Hart Research poll commissioned by the Natural…

NRDC Report: Latinos Are Especially Hard-hit by Climate Change

October 13, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON – The nation’s 56 million Latinos are especially vulnerable to the health threats posed by climate change because of where they live, work and lack access to health care, a report released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council…

14 Senators Ask President Obama to Protect Arctic, Atlantic from Future Oil and Gas Leasing

October 6, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON – A group of 14 Democratic senators sent a letter to President Obama today asking him to permanently protect the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans from oil and gas drilling.