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NRDC Ads: Sens. Portman & Toomey Voted for Polluters over Climate Action

March 24, 2015 Press Release

WASHINGTON (March 24, 2015) – The Natural Resources Defense Council has launched a six-figure multi-state ad campaign taking to task two key senators for votes backing a big polluter agenda while praising three of their colleagues for voting to back…

New FEMA Requirements Will Better Prepare Communities for Climate Change Risks

March 13, 2015 Press Release

WASHINGTON (March 13, 2015) – The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced Thursday it finalized new policy guidance requiring states to consider climate change’s projected effects when they plan and prepare for natural disasters.

Oregon Advances Climate Leadership with Clean Fuels Program

March 11, 2015 Press Release

SALEM, OR (March 11, 2015) – Governor Kate Brown signed into law today Senate Bill 324 extending Oregon’s Clean Fuels Standard. The standard requires the oil industry to cut carbon pollution from transportation fuels by 10% over the next ten…

Ballast Water Bill Would Open Coasts and Great Lakes to Invasive Species Assault

February 25, 2015 Press Release

WASHINGTON, DC (February 25, 2015) – The US Senate Commerce Committee reported a bill to the Senate that would exempt ship ballast water—the source of numerous damaging invasive species infestations in the Great Lakes, inland waterways and sensitive waters along…

Interior Secretary Announces Drought Funds for Smart Water Investments

February 6, 2015 Press Release

SACRAMENTO, CALIF. (February 6, 2015) – United States Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced $50 million in drought funding to support much-needed smart water investments throughout the state. Despite today’s storm, all signs indicate that California is entering…

NRDC’s Suh Urges Congress to Support Clean Water Proposal to Protect Drinking Supplies

February 3, 2015 Press Release

WASHINGTON (February 3, 2015)— Rhea Suh, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, today urged Congress to support a proposed new federal Clean Water Rule, noting, “The fate of nearly two million miles of streams and tens of millions of…

Scientific Review Supports New Clean Water Protections

January 15, 2015 Press Release

WASHINGTON (January 15, 2015)— A new scientific report showing that small streams and wetlands can affect downstream water quality and help supply drinking water to millions of Americans is further evidence that these water bodies need protection from pollution, the…

EPA Coal Ash Rule Fails to Protect Public Health and Waterways

December 19, 2014 Press Release

WASHINGTON (December 19, 2014)—The Environmental Protection Agency’s long-awaited rule on disposal of toxic ash from coal-burning power plants falls far short of what’s needed to protect the public and our waterways from the millions of tons of dangerous sludge that…

Environmentalists Sue to Protect Water Quality

December 19, 2014 Press Release

WASHINGTON (December 19, 2014)— The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Environmental Defense Center (EDC) today announced they have sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to strengthen standards to prevent pollution from stormwater, one of the nation’s most widespread…

New Report: Climate Change Has Extreme Rain Storms in Michigan Trending Way Up

December 4, 2014 Press Release

CHICAGO (December 4, 2014) – The kind of deluges that flooded Detroit this year and Grand Rapids last year are part of a 50-year trend of increasingly frequent extreme storms in Michigan, according to a new study released today by…

Clean Water Proposal Will Help Families, Homeowners Get Safe Drinking Water

November 17, 2014 Press Release

WASHINGTON (November 17, 2014)—A proposed new clean water rule will help ensure Americans have safe drinking water by closing a critical gap in the country’s pollution laws, the Natural Resources Defense Council said.

Coalition Releases Comprehensive Recommendations to Help California’s Cities, Farms and Environment Weather the Drought

November 17, 2014 Press ReleaseCalifornia

SAN FRANCISCO (November 17, 2014) — As dreams of a wet, El Niño winter fade and California heads into a possible fourth consecutive year of drought, a coalition of 15 environmental, fishing and public policy organizations released a set of…

Craft Brewers Support EPA Bolstering Protections for American Waters—And Beer!

November 14, 2014 Press Release

CHICAGO (November 14, 2014) – Some of the nation’s most respected and beloved breweries weighed in on the national debate over clean water protections today. Thirty-two members of the “Brewers for Clean Water” campaign signed onto a comment letter in…

NRDC’s “Exaggerator” Video Takes on Polluters’ Wild Claims about Proposed Clean Water Rule

November 12, 2014 Press Release

WASHINGTON (November 12, 2014) – The Natural Resources Defense Council launched a video campaign today taking a comic jab at big corporate polluters’ hyperbolic claims about the proposed Clean Water Protection Rule, which is intended to restore protections for waterways…

California Voters Approve Prop 1: Water Bond Funds 21st Century Clean and Reliable Water Solutions

November 4, 2014 Press ReleaseCalifornia

LOS ANGELES (November 4, 2014) — California voters today passed, by a very comfortable margin, Proposition 1, a new $7.5 billion water bond that will provide clean drinking water to disadvantaged communities and fund critical investments in regional water supply…

Organizations Deliver Comments to EPA from more than 700,000 Americans Who Support Clean Water

October 22, 2014 Press Release

WASHINGTON (October 22, 2014) – More than 700,000 Americans have written to support a plan to protect streams and wetlands nationwide that are vulnerable to pollution, and today a diverse coalition of conservation organizations and clean water advocates delivered their…

Severe Drought Triggers Aggressive Response from Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti

October 14, 2014 Press Release

LOS ANGELES (October 14, 2014) — In response to the severe California drought, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti today announced aggressive goals for reduced water use within the city. Among the plan’s topline goals is slashing L.A.’s per capita potable…

Additional Opportunity to Provide Input on Critical Clean Water Proposal

October 6, 2014 Press Release

WASHINGTON (October 6, 2014)—The Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today extended for a second time, until November 14, the public comment period on the proposed Clean Water Protection rule, which would restore Clean Water Act…

House Vote against Clean Water Protections Ignores Toledo Lessons

September 9, 2014 Press Release

WASHINGTON (September 9, 2014) — One month after the toxic algae disaster in Toledo demonstrated the perils of water pollution, the Republican-controlled House today passed a bill (H.R. 5078) to block improvements in the Clean Water Act that would help…

Conan O’Brien Urges Californians to Save Water During Historic Drought

August 5, 2014 Press ReleaseCalifornia

LOS ANGELES (Aug. 5, 2014) – Iconic comedian and television talk show host Conan O’Brien and sidekick Andy Richter may always be looking for laughs, but they’re taking California’s historic drought seriously by joining the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)…