News & Commentary

The 2022 Department of Energy budget bill advanced by a Senate panel last week makes encouraging steps in funding DOE's vital clean energy programs, but the allocations proposed fall short of the transformational budget we need to jumpstart clean energy…

The news from the latest IPCC report could be dispiriting (life-threatening climate changes are inevitable and irreversible) but it also continues to make the case that we can stave off the worst impacts of climate change if we drastically reduce…

A chorus of diverse voices has united with a clear message: The federal government needs to restore protections before decades of investments and hard-earned conservation progress are lost.

As proposed, Sites Reservoir would make California’s water problems worse.

On the one-year anniversary of President Biden's promise to protect Bristol Bay, dozens of groups urge EPA to fulfill that promise by taking immediate action under Section 404(c) of the Clean Water Act

When it came to environmental issues, we shared the same long-term goals on addressing environmental health, addressing the climate crisis and making a better world for families and workers. We didn’t always agree on the exact right path to reach…

By 2030, India will have added nearly one billion square meters of new commercial floor space--more than the land area of New York City and Washington D.C combined. Building smart from the start is a real opportunity to reduce emissions…

Cooling equipment packs a potent climate threat: invisible refrigerant gases that leak into the atmosphere during the equipment’s operating lifetime. The very chemicals that will help billions of people adapt to extreme heat are themselves driving the climate crisis. 

NRDC and our allies filed a brief today urging the Supreme Court to decline to review the D.C. Circuit’s January decision striking down the Trump EPA’s repeal of the Clean Power Plan (CPP) and its do-nothing replacement, the so-called Affordable…

New research by NRDC and the North China Electric Power University finds that by capping installed coal power capacity at 1,100 GW over the coming 14th Five-Year-Plan period, China can both guarantee its energy security and remain on track to…

In a newly released report—commissioned by NRDC in partnership with the Center for Western Priorities and eight other groups—the Conservation Economics Institute (CEI) finds that the temporary moratorium on leasing public lands for oil and gas development has negligible economic…

We’ve reached a point where simply reacting to a pandemic after it hits isn’t an option.

The benefit of taking comprehensive climate action isn’t just curtailing carbon dioxide emissions released into the atmosphere. Climate action also prevents excess carbon dioxide from dissolving in our ocean. This process, known as ocean acidification, needs to continue to be…

More than 40 years ago, Congress told Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to do a better job of ensuring that the public had a say in its decisions. The nation’s top energy regulator never did, and, as a result, landowners…

The drumbeat to end subsidies to the fossil fuel industry continued today as the CEOs of eighteen national environmental organizations, including NRDC, called for adoption of President Biden’s plan to cut $121 billion in subsidies to the fossil fuel industry.

Big Oil is leaving behind a colossal and dangerous mess on its way out. We need help from President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda to get started on the cleanup, but industry and not taxpayers must ultimately foot the bill.