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Senator Ayotte Joins Majority of U.S. Republicans in Backing Clean Power Plan

October 26, 2015 Press Release

WASHINGTON (October 26, 2015) – Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) over the weekend expressed her support for the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan. The following is a statement by David Doniger, director of the Climate and Clean Air Program at the…

Ohio Attorney General “Rolling Back Progress” By Joining Anti-Clean Power Plan Lawsuit

October 23, 2015 Press Release

CHICAGO (October 22, 2015) — Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine has signaled he will drag the state into a fight against efforts to combat dangerous carbon pollution by joining a lawsuit to challenge the Clean Power Plan. Today’s publication of…

Michigan's Attorney General Joins Lawsuit to Block U.S. Carbon Pollution Rules

October 23, 2015 Press Release

CHICAGO (October 23, 2015) – Taking sides with corporate polluters seeking to overturn the Obama Administration’s plan to curb carbon pollution from power plants, Michigan’s Attorney General Bill Schuette will join a lawsuit to block the Clean Power Plan. The…

Legal Experts: Landmark Climate Plan Likely to Withstand Polluters’ Court Challenges

October 22, 2015 Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 22, 2015) – The rash of lawsuits by polluters and their allies triggered by publishing the Clean Power Plan in the Federal Register are highly unlikely to derail the landmark climate plan, key legal experts said Thursday…

Natural Resources Defense Council and Lexicon of Sustainability Announce Winners of the Voices of the Soil Contest

October 21, 2015 Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A diverse group of young farmers, agricultural students, and young soil enthusiasts from across the country have been selected as winners in the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Lexicon of Sustainability’s “Voices of Soil” Essay and…

Retrofit Chicago Commercial Buildings Initiative Recognizes Energy Efficiency Leaders Across the City

October 21, 2015 Press Release

CHICAGO (October 21, 2015) – Retrofit Chicago’s Commercial Buildings Initiative has announced awards honoring buildings and individuals who are achieving measurable energy performance improvement and advancing the effort to improve energy efficiency throughout the City of Chicago. “Chicago has one…

Canada’s New Government Should Advance Clean Energy, Climate Action

October 20, 2015 Press Release

WASHINGTON (October 20, 2015) –The following is a statement by Anthony Swift, Canada Project Director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, on the just-concluded federal elections in Canada: “The new Liberal government in Ottawa has an unprecedented opportunity to move…

Subway Announces Plans to Eliminate Antibiotics Use in U.S. Meat Supplies

October 20, 2015 Press Release

MILFORD, CT (October 20, 2015) – Subway—the world’s largest fast food chain—today announced a detailed plan to eliminate antibiotics use in all of its U.S. meat supplies. The announcement comes after NRDC launched a campaign targeted at the sandwich giant…

Southern Forests at Risk: New Report Identifies Three Southern Forest Regions in Immediate Crosshairs of Wood Pellet Industry

October 19, 2015 Press ReleaseNew York

NEW YORK (October 20, 2015) – A new report released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) reveals the imminent threat from the burgeoning wood pellet industry on three fragile forest ecosystems in the U.S. Southeast. Innovative GIS mapping…

Victory for the Arctic as Lease Sales are Cancelled

October 16, 2015 Press Release

WASHINGTON (October 16, 2015) – The Obama administration announced Friday it would cancel proposed auctions for drilling rights in the Arctic waters off the coast of Alaska for 2016 and 2017.

California Poised to Set Strictest Antibiotics Standards for Livestock Use in the Nation

October 9, 2015 Press ReleaseCalifornia

SACRAMENTO (October 9, 2015) – By the end of the weekend, California Governor Jerry Brown will announce his decision on legislation by Sen. Jerry Hill that sets the strictest limits in the U.S. on the misuse and overuse of antibiotics…

Exporting U.S. Crude Oil Would Boost Climate Pollution and Risks to Communities

October 9, 2015 Press Release

WASHINGTON (October 9, 2015) –The following is a statement by Franz Matzner, director of the Beyond Oil Initiative at the Natural Resources Defense Council, on a pending House bill—which faces a presidential veto—to remove the four-decade-old prohibition on U.S. exports…

Clean Water Rule Decision Delays Enforcement but Reinforces Need for Protections

October 9, 2015 Press Release

WASHINGTON (October 9, 2015) – A federal court decision handed down today temporarily delays enforcement of the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Clean Water Rule, which guarantees pollution protections for tens of millions of acres…

Missouri Attorney General "Putting Pollution Before People" By Joining Anti-Clean Power Plan Lawsuit

October 9, 2015 Press Release

CHICAGO (October 9, 2015) — Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster announced he will oppose the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan today by joining a lawsuit challenging it in federal court. The historic carbon pollution protections, ordered by a…

New Report: U.S. Renewable Energy Surges to Historic Levels

October 8, 2015 Press Release

WASHINGTON (October 8, 2015) – America’s reliance on wind, solar, and other renewable sources of energy has reached historic levels and is poised to make even greater gains in the near future, according to new report by the Natural Resources…

Michigan Governor Recommends Flint Reconnect to Detroit Water To End Lead Contamination Crisis

October 8, 2015 Press Release

CHICAGO – In the wake of Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s recommendation that the City of Flint reconnect to the Detroit water system to stem its lead-contamination woes, leaders from the ACLU of Michigan and the Natural Resources Defense Council today…

Statement on Governor Cuomo’s Climate Commitments

October 8, 2015 Press ReleaseNew York

NEW YORK, NY (October 8, 2015) — Governor Andrew Cuomo today announced four actions New York State will take to combat climate change, in a speech delivered alongside former Vice President Al Gore. These efforts have the potential to cut…

California Governor Signs Historic Clean Energy Legislation

October 7, 2015 Press ReleaseCalifornia

SACRAMENTO (October 7, 2015) – California Governor Jerry Brown today signed a landmark law cementing California’s climate leadership into the next decade. Senate Bill 350 (de León and Leno) sets the most aggressive combined clean energy targets in the world…

Court Rules that EPA Failed to Protect U.S. Waters from Aquatic Invasive Species

October 6, 2015 Press Release

ANN ARBOR, MICH. (October 5, 2015) – In a unanimous 3-0 decision that has ramifications for waters across the country—from Long Island Sound to the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico to San Francisco Bay—the U.S. Court of Appeals…

New Air Quality Standard Insufficient to Protect Public Health

October 1, 2015 Press Release

WASHINGTON (October 1, 2015) – The Obama Administration today tightened the limit for ground-level ozone or smog pollution—one of the most pervasive and dangerous pollutants we inhale—to 70 parts per billion (ppb). The following is a statement by John Walke…