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New Urban Housing Rules Could ‘Level the Playing Field’

July 8, 2015 Press Release

WASHINGTON (July 8, 2015) – The new rules announced today by the Obama Administration requiring cities and towns to scrutinize their housing patterns for racial bias is an important and long-awaited step toward improving the lives of all Americans.

GOP Leaders Pack Anti-Environment Riders into Spending Bill

July 7, 2015 Press Release

WASHINGTON (July 7, 2015) – Congressional Republicans have been working to add an array of anti-environment riders to the $30.17 billion fiscal year 2016 Interior and Environment appropriations bill, which already included a 9 percent cut to the Environmental Protection…

NRDC TV Ads Call Out Kirk on Climate

July 7, 2015 Press Release

CHICAGO (July 7, 2015) – A new public education advertising effort chastises Illinois Senator Mark Kirk for a recent, decisive vote to block climate action. The ads running on television stations throughout Chicagoland and social media highlight Senator Kirk’s vote…

Replacing Damaging HFCs a Key Move on Climate Change

July 2, 2015 Press Release

WASHINGTON (July 2, 2015) – The Environmental Protection Agency today finalized standards setting deadlines to end certain uses of hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, powerful heat-trapping gases that significantly contribute to climate change, because safer, climate-friendlier alternatives now exist.

China Announces New Long-Term Commitment to Curb Climate Change

June 30, 2015 Press Release

BEIJING (June 30, 2015) – China announced today a new long-term commitment to reduce its carbon intensity by 60-65 percent by 2030 compared to 2005 levels. As the world’s largest carbon emitter and renewable energy market, this post-2020 climate commitment…

Report: U.S. Pro Sports Shifting to More Sustainable Game Day Food

June 30, 2015 Press Release

CHICAGO (June 30, 2015) – Leading professional sports venues that serve all major leagues are now promoting more sustainable food options to fans, according to a new report by the Green Sports Alliance (GSA) and the Natural Resources Defense Council…

Robert Redford Calls for Climate Action in United Nations Address

June 29, 2015 Press ReleaseNew York

NEW YORK (June 29, 2015) – Robert Redford, the noted artist and activist, called for urgent action on climate change in an address to climate ministers at the United Nations today. The event, which included delegates from over 193 member…

It’s Official—New York Bans Fracking

June 29, 2015 Press Release

NEW YORK, NY (June 29, 2015)—The Cuomo Administration today made the state’s ban on high-volume hydraulic fracturing official, following through on a December promise to prohibit the dangerous industrial activity in New York.

Senators’ Energy Principles Point our Country in the Right Direction

June 29, 2015 Press Release

WASHINGTON (June 29, 2015) – Forty-five Senators – including every Democrat - today asked the nation’s governors to join the federal government in updating energy policies. In a letter, the senators outlined a series of common-sense principles, including: investing in…

Statement on New York’s 2015 State Energy Plan

June 25, 2015 Press ReleaseNew York

ALBANY, N.Y. (June 25, 2015)—The Cuomo Administration today released New York’s 2015 State Energy Plan, after years of analysis and robust public comment.

Alberta Must Do More to Meet Climate Commitment

June 25, 2015 Press Release

WASHINGTON (June 25, 2015) – The following is a statement by Anthony Swift, Canada Project Director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, upon the announcement by officials in Alberta, Canada that it will commit to a more ambitious climate policy…

City Exiles More of Chicago's Petcoke Piles

June 24, 2015 Press Release

CHICAGO (June 24, 2015) – The City of Chicago recently informed a company storing massive mounds of oil refining waste on Chicago’s Southeast Side that no more of the material can ever move through one of its sites. The decision…

Broad Array of Public Interest Groups Call on Subway, the World’s Largest Fast-Food Chain: Help Save Antibiotics!

June 23, 2015 Press ReleaseCalifornia

SAN FRANCISCO (June 23, 2015) — A letter signed by nearly 60 public interest, medical, public health, environmental and animal welfare organizations was delivered to Subway Founder and CEO Fred DeLuca and Senior VP Suzanne Greco today, asking the restaurant…

Lancet Report Affirms Tremendous Health Benefits from Climate Action

June 22, 2015 Press Release

WASHINGTON (June 22, 2015) – The Lancet Commission on Health and Climate released a report today warning that climate change poses both the greatest threat to health in the 21st Century and the greatest opportunity to protect public health by…

EPA Issues Clarion Call to Climate Action

June 22, 2015 Press Release

WASHINGTON (June 22, 2015) -- The Environmental Protection Agency today released “'Climate Change in the United States: Benefits of Global Action,”' at-once a sobering warning of the consequences of inaction and a clarion call to action.

New Truck Efficiency Standards Can Go a Long Way toward a Cleaner Energy Future

June 19, 2015 Press Release

WASHINGTON (June 19, 2015) – The Obama Administration’s proposed fuel-efficiency and carbon pollution standards for heavy trucks announced today will cut fuel bills, curb carbon pollution, and spur manufacturing innovation.

Health and Environmental Safeguards Under Attack by GOP Leadership

June 18, 2015 Press Release

WASHINGTON (June 18, 2015) – Congressional Republican leaders are adding numerous anti-environmental measures to must-pass appropriations bills and moving them through the House and a key Senate committee this week, despite a presidential veto threat and support for health and…

NRDC President: Pope Calls All People of Good Will to Climate Action

June 18, 2015 Press Release

WASHINGTON (June 18, 2015) – The following is a statement by Rhea Suh, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, upon the release of Pope Francis’ encyclical on climate change.

FDA Should Follow Trans Fat Move with Safety Reviews of 1,000 other Chemicals in Food

June 16, 2015 Press Release

WASHINGTON (June 16, 2015) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration took action today that all but bans the use of trans fats in foods, which studies have linked to heart disease.

Groups Urge WHO to Set Safety Standards for Herbicide Glyphosate it Classified as Carcinogenic

June 16, 2015 Press Release

WASHINGTON (June 16, 2015) – A coalition of groups are urging the World Health Organization to swiftly set new safety standards for the world’s most widely used herbicide—glyphosate, often sold as “Roundup” – after a WHO cancer-evaluating arm recently classified…