News & Commentary

Federal Oil and Gas Leasing Needs Reform and Phaseout

March 23, 2021 Expert BlogUnited StatesJosh Axelrod, Valerie Cleland, Lauren Kubiak

As climate change inflicts mounting costs and rising dangers on people across the country, selling off our public lands and waters to fossil fuel companies at steep discounts serves neither present nor future generations. Instead, it locks both into the very fuels that are driving the climate crisis.

Governor Newsom Looking toward Recovery, Guided by Science

March 18, 2021 Expert BlogCaliforniaVictoria Rome

The fight against the climate crisis continues and California legislators are approaching the battle in new ways, with new coalitions. Here are some key environmental bills to watch.

South Florida’s Dirty Secret Is Oil

March 18, 2021 Expert BlogFloridaAlison Kelly

As many city dwellers flee states with cold winters and expensive costs of living looking to quarantine in this paradise, there is a dirty little secret lurking in the Florida swamp—impending oil development.

Meet Deb Haaland

March 15, 2021 Latest NewsUnited StatesJeff Turrentine

Biden's pick to lead the Interior Department is the first Native American to run a Cabinet-level agency. And this agency, in particular, needs someone like Haaland to run it.

Biden Can Protect Communities, Halt Mountain Valley Pipeline

March 9, 2021 Expert BlogWest Virginia, Virginia, North CarolinaAmy Mall

We have new leadership in Washington under President Biden, and his administration should take action to send the Mountain Valley Pipeline right where it belongs—into the dustbin of history.

EU must follow the science and end tree-burning for energy

March 1, 2021 Expert BlogInternationalDebbie Hammel

Burning wood for electricity is exacerbating climate change, and European wood imports for energy production degrade sensitive and highly biodiverse habitats in the process. 

Saving Nature to Save Ourselves

February 26, 2021 Expert BlogUnited StatesSharon Buccino

Congress acts to connect land, water, and communities to reach 30x30.

Drax Purchase Would Implicate the United Kingdom in Loss of Canadian Forests

February 25, 2021 Expert BlogInternational, CanadaElly Pepper, Jennifer Skene, Sasha Stashwick

The operator of the world’s largest wood-burning power station is doubling down on its destructive wood-burning business model.

Deb Haaland Is the Interior Secretary Our Country Needs

February 22, 2021 Latest NewsUnited StatesJeff Turrentine

The fact that senators tied to the fossil fuel industry are opposing her nomination is a big clue as to why.

Parks and Public Lands Poised for Justice

February 9, 2021 Expert BlogMarissa Ramirez

With new leadership at the Department of the Interior, parks and public lands are poised for justice.

Red Rock’s Role in Saving Nature

February 4, 2021 Expert BlogUnited States, ColoradoSharon Buccino

Connecting land, water and humans to reach 30x30.

At Last, Justice at the National Bison Range

January 29, 2021 Expert BlogAmy McNamara, Helen O'Shea

NRDC is grateful to have been able to stand in solidarity with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes in their efforts to bring the National Bison Range home to the Flathead Indian Reservation. This is a homecoming worthy of celebration.

The High Cost of P&G's Inaction

January 28, 2021 Expert BlogAshley Jordan, Shelley Vinyard

More than 100 days after P&G’s voting shareholders sent an overwhelming message to the company to stop fueling deforestation and forest degradation, P&G still has not announced an action plan. This delay is inexcusable and costly to communities, the planet…

With His “Climate Day” Orders, Biden Moves to Protect the Country—Its People, Lands and Waters, and Science

January 27, 2021 Latest NewsUnited StatesJeff Turrentine

National security, environmental justice, scientific integrity, and the economy are just a few issues covered by the president’s sweeping climate strategy.

What Biden Should Get Done on Day One (or Close to It)

January 20, 2021 Latest NewsUnited StatesJeff Turrentine

Our next president could address many pressing environmental and public health issues right away—some with just a stroke of the executive pen.

Indigenous and Environmental Groups Sue to Save Alaska’s Tongass National Forest from Logging

January 8, 2021 Expert BlogNRDC

Conserving the Tongass means preserving the climate, Native ways of life, and ecosystems that are crucial to the local economy.

It’s Time to Get Serious about Ending Illegal Fishing

December 28, 2020 Expert BlogInternational, United StatesElizabeth Murdock, Dillon Hanson-Ahumada

This ruthless rush for seafood is depleting fish populations; harming marine habitats; and placing key species—like marine mammals, sea turtles, and sharks—at risk.

Judge Halts Action on Utah Helium Drilling

December 22, 2020 Expert BlogUtahJosh Axelrod

NRDC and partners today headed off an attempt by the Trump administration to rush approvals for new helium drilling operations within one of America’s newest and most iconic wilderness areas: Labyrinth Canyon in southeastern Utah.

UK to Plant Trees at Home, While Decimating U.S. Forests

December 21, 2020 Expert BlogInternationalElly Pepper

Trees are important. The UK’s Tree Strategy wholeheartedly acknowledges that. So why is the UK so intent on continuing (and subsidizing) an industry that depends on cutting them down and burning them?

"We Are the Same as the Salmon": A Story of Suffering and Perseverance

December 17, 2020 DispatchWyoming, Idaho, Oregon, WashingtonNicole Greenfield

Thirty years ago, the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes led the effort to save Snake River sockeye salmon from extinction. Today, they’re still fighting for the fish’s survival—along with their own.