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Supreme Court Gives Unaccountable Judges Power Over Agency Actions, Overturning 40 Years of Precedent

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court, in the twin cases of Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce and Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, today overturned the doctrine of Chevron deference.

NRDC Report: How Retailers are Selling Forest Destruction 

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.
WASHINGTON — U.S. retailers are failing their customers and the planet by selling toilet paper, paper towels, and other goods sourced from climate-critical forests, according to a new NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) report. Selling the World’s Forests details how…

Woodwell a ‘Towering Giant’ of Climate Science

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WASHINGTON - Pioneering climate scientist and founding board member of NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) George Woodwell died June 18.

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NRDC Sues Trump Administration Over Rollback of Methane Rule for Public Lands

Press ReleaseCalifornia
SAN FRANCISCO—The Natural Resources Defense Council and coalition of nearly 20 conservation and tribal citizen groups today sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management over its rollback of commonsense protections that stop the unnecessary leaking of climate change-fueling and health-harming…

Congress Set To Attack American Wildlife This Week

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WASHINGTON – This week Congress will turn its attention to a series of bills that threaten to undermine the Endangered Species Act. Today, the House Natural Resources Committee is holding a legislative hearing on a suite of nine bills that…

Court Orders Seafood Import Ban to Save Mexico’s Vaquita Porpoise

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NEW YORK— Responding to a lawsuit filed by conservation groups, the U.S. Court of International Trade today ordered the Trump administration to ban seafood imports from Mexico caught with gillnets that kill the critically endangered vaquita porpoise. As few as…

Wheeler Suspends Protections from Toxic Coal Ash

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WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency said today that it is delaying important safeguards from the toxic waste festering in about 2,000 dangerous coal ash ponds. EPA is eliminating testing requirements and allowing industry to continue operating storage pits that…

NRDC: Scott Pruitt Attacks Clean Water Yet Again  

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WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers proposed, once again, to repeal the Clean Water Rule, which provides important protections for wetlands and streams that feed the drinking water supplies of 117 million Americans.  

Pruitt Moves to End Protections from Waste Dumping

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WASHINGTON - In his latest attempt to save his job, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced efforts today to limit EPA’s ability to stop highly destructive activities such as mountaintop-removal coal mining from destroying streams, estuaries or other rich…

Dominion Plans to Shut One of Largest U.S. Biomass Plants

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WASHINGTON - Dominion Energy said it intends to shutter one of the largest wood-burning power plants in the U.S., underscoring the increasing competitiveness of wind and solar power in our nation’s energy mix.

Alaska Native Leaders and Fishermen Tell First Quantum: Dump Pebble Mine

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TORONTO—A delegation representing Alaskan business leaders, Bristol Bay Tribes, commercial fishermen and conservation organizations will appear today at the annual meeting of First Quantum Minerals to give shareholders a message: the Pebble Mine is a bad investment.

Infrastructure Lags from Paltry Funding, Not Environmental Review

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WASHINGTON – With President Trump expected to tout an infrastructure plan in his State of the Union address, Scott Slesinger, legislative director for the Natural Resources Defense Council, told Congress in written testimony today it is systematic underfunding of transportation…