Unfortunately, mercury standards adopted for industrial boilers in 2011 were put on hold and now under re-consideration for a smaller subset of boilers. Despite overwhelming evidence of their health and environmental benefits, these important standards covering the second largest merc...
The letter focuses on White House delays in clarifying which waterbodies are covered by the Clean Water Act. Supreme Court decisions in 2001 and 2006 created uncertainty about what types of waters are protected by the law. Agency “guidance” issued under former president George W. Bush...
WASHINGTON (June 11, 2013) – In a new multimedia campaign, Robert Redford is challenging President Obama to act now on climate change by reining in carbon pollution from the nation’s biggest source, coal-fired power plants. “Four months ago, President Obama spoke of our obligation to ...
WASHINGTON, DC (June 7, 2013) – Gray wolves would lose most federal protections under a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposal announced today. Dr. Sylvia Fallon, senior scientist and director of the wildlife conservation program with the Natural Resources Defense Council, made the f...
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Sigourney Weaver narrates this 2-minute video about the Natural Resources Defense Council. We are the nation's most effective environmental action group, combining the grassroots power of 1.4 million members and online activists with the courtroom clout and expertise of more than 350 ...
In the last six decades, the average size of a new single family home in the United States rose from roughly 1,000 square feet to 2,500, not because we grew 250% richer but because we found a way to finance what we couldn't afford. Our economic mess is the fallout from this conjuring ...
FDA should set strict limits (equivalent to those in California, EPA rules, international standards, or industry guidelines, whichever is most health protective) for contaminants of concern in bottled water, including arsenic, heterotrophic-plate-count bacteria, E. coli and other para...
WASHINGTON (April 18, 2013) – The U.S. State Department is holding a public hearing today in Grand Island, Nebraska, on a new route for the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Anthony Swift, an attorney in the international program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, made t...
NEW YORK (April 17, 2013) – The Town Board of Sanford, NY, has repealed the gag order it passed last summer on discussing fracking at their meetings, following a First Amendment lawsuit filed in February by the Natural Resources Defense Council and Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy. A...
CHICAGO (April 9, 2013) – It takes great water to make great beer, so the Natural Resources Defense Council is teaming up with nearly two dozen nationally-respected craft brewers to launch a campaign today advocating for strong clean water policies. The craft brewing industry—makers o...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (April 4, 2013) – The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) today celebrates four remarkable food vanguards for their pioneering efforts to create healthier and more sustainable food systems at the fifth annual Growing Green Awards . The winners, who are leaders i...
The list of crops that simply won’t grow without honey bees is a long one: Apples, cucumbers, broccoli, onions, pumpkins, carrots, avocados, almonds … and it goes on. Without bees to pollinate many of our favorite fruits and vegetables, the United States could lose $15 billion worth o...
WASHINGTON (March 27, 2013) – A two-year investigation by the Natural Resources Defense Council has found that the federal government has potentially threatened the public’s health by improperly using a regulatory loophole to approve many untested or under-tested toxic pesticides. NRD...
WASHINGTON (March 23, 2013) – Late last night, the Senate rejected a bid to block standards to limit the dangerous carbon pollution that is driving climate change. The measure, an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2014 Budget Resolution proposed by Sen. James Inhofe, R-OK, would have prohi...
“This President has the power to achieve the single biggest carbon reduction ever, by holding our biggest carbon polluters – dirty power plants – accountable for what they dump into the air, said Van Jones, NRDC Trustee and President Rebuild the Dream . “Cleaning up this pollution and...
The national debate surrounding the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline has obscured the fact that a key purpose of the pipeline is to export Canadian oil to the world market via the U.S. Gulf Coast -- a plan that would threaten the farmlands and water of America’s heartland. Canada isn’t ...
WASHINGTON (February 12, 2013) – Extending his campaign against the central environmental challenge of our time, President Obama vowed tonight to use the powers of the presidency to respond to the threat of climate change. Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense C...
Toxic flame retardant chemicals present the worst of two possible worlds: they are ineffective in preventing furniture fires and are linked to serious health effects. In fact, the chemicals only make fires more toxic by forming deadly gases and soot -- real killers in most fires. Unfo...
It may seem an impossible task to turn around the American diet, and with it the way we produce food, but it's not. Consumers have a lot of leverage in the marketplace, just look at how sales of organic products have grown, trans-fats have been squeezed out of cookies and crackers and...
WASHINGTON (January 3, 2013) – The Natural Resources Defense Council and The Wilderness Society today called on the Obama administration to immediately put a hold on all current and future approvals for offshore oil exploration in America’s Arctic Ocean. Shell Oil’s long string of acc...
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The list below shows the amount of various types of fish that a woman who is pregnant or planning to become pregnant can safely eat, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. People with small children who want to use the list as a guide should reduce portion sizes. Adult men ...
It wasn't until winter's end that the store of food from Joan Gussow's garden finally came up short. "I had to buy a carrot," says Gussow, a Columbia professor and author of This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader (Chelsea Green, 2001). Photo: Laura K Gibbs/Flickr The...
What we eat matters. The food choices we make every day have a big effect on the environment. The good news is that even small changes in what we buy and eat can add up to real environmental benefits, including fewer toxic chemicals, reduced global warming emissions, and preservation ...
WASHINGTON (December 8, 2012) - The United Nations climate talks in Doha, Qatar ended Saturday with key countries agreeing to guidelines on how to track progress toward meeting their commitments and set a path toward a stronger legal agreement in 2015. Jake Schmidt, international clim...
As this report illustrates, clean, renewable energy is just the start of what we get from growing the number of wind farms across the country. The wind industry now employs 75,000 Americans. U.S. companies and their workers produce approximately 65 percent of every wind turbine part. ...
