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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…

Federal Court Orders Bottled Water Delivery for Flint Residents

November 10, 2016 Press Release

DETROIT, Mich. – Federal judge David M. Lawson today ordered the Michigan state officials and the City of Flint to deliver bottled water door-to-door to homes in Flint, a victory for residents who have been living without access to safe…

NRDC on post-election environmental initiative results in California

November 9, 2016 Press ReleaseCalifornia

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.

Canadian Logger Should Adopt Sustainable Management in Boreal Forest and Stop Suing Critics

November 2, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON (November 2, 2016) – The Natural Resources Defense Council is urging more than 100 major companies in the United States to demand that Resolute Forest Products drop its litigation against public interest organizations and adopt sustainable forest management in…

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

U.S Instrumental in Protecting Antarctic Waters

October 28, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON – An international Antarctic commission has agreed to declare 1.1 million square kilometers of the Ross Sea in the Southern Ocean as a fully protected marine reserve. The move to conserve the area comes after extensive international negotiation. It…

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…

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…

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.

New Study: Biomass Costlier, Dirtier Than Wind, Solar for Replacing Coal Power in the UK

October 17, 2016 Press Release

LONDON – Wind and solar power are likely to be less expensive than burning trees in order to replace coal in the United Kingdom, according to a new study released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

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…

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…

Informe Del Consejo Para La Defensa De Recursos Naturales Revela Que Los Latinos Son Extremadamente Afectados Por El Cambio Climático

October 13, 2016 Press Release

Entre los factores se encuentran las temperaturas extremas, inundaciones, trabajo al aire libre y poco acceso a servicios médicos. Sin embargo, los latinos podrían beneficiarse enormemente de la revolución de la energía limpia si se tomara acción climática

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…

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.

Court Rejects Drilling in Upper Desolation Canyon

October 5, 2016 Press Release

SALT LAKE CITY – A federal judge has rejected a natural gas project on public lands along the Upper Desolation Canyon on the Green River in eastern Utah. The plan is part of the highly controversial Gasco Natural Gas Development…

Sharks and Rays Get New Protections Under International Wildlife Trade Treaty

October 3, 2016 Press Release

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) today approved new international protections for thresher sharks, silky sharks and mobula rays by moving the species to Appendix II at the 17th Conference of…

World Leaders Say No to Trade in Rhino Horn

October 3, 2016 Press Release