On Land or at Sea, No National Monument Is Safe from Trump
The president opens the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts monument to commercial fishing. Lying 130 miles southeast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, the Northeast Can…
Trump Thinks Eliminating Environmental Regulation Will Stimulate Recovery. He’s 100 Percent Wrong.
The evidence shows that environmental protection is a boon to the economy. President Trump has signed an executive order encouraging agencies to all but ignore…
Trump Invites Offshore Drillers to Make the Same Mistakes Again
The administration’s rollback raises the risk of another Deepwater Horizon disaster. Newly released emails show that in 2017, the American Petroleum Institute …
Trump Tells States and Tribes They’re Thinking Too Much About Clean Water
The EPA shortchanges authorities’ ability to accept or reject proposals that threaten their waterways. The Clean Water Act gives states and tribes the right to…
Trump to Communities Trying to Protect Their Forests: Shut It.
Communities currently have 15 days to object to logging sales on nearby federal lands. The president says that’s unfair to logging companies. The Trump adminis…
Trump Proposes Logging Burned Land Without Environmental Analysis
Postfire logging has been called “mugging a burn victim.” Trump wants to make those muggings easier. The Bureau of Land Management has proposed to allow salvag…
EPA Describes Pebble Mine as a Potential Disaster, Yet Fails to Stop It Anyway
The agency bizarrely admits the mine puts Alaska’s Bristol Bay in grave danger but declines to save it. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this wee…
Bill 25 Propels Honolulu’s Homes to a Clean Energy Future
The NRDC Action Fund is driving climate action in cities across the country through The American Cities Climate Challenge. This post is written by Maria Stamas…
Trump Legalizes Inhumane Hunting Practices
Targeting bear cubs and wolf pups will now be allowed in Alaska’s national parks. The Trump administration has finalized a rule that reopens land in Alaska’s n…
Trump Issues Nonenforcement Order to All Federal Agencies
Ignoring threats to environmental health, worker safety issues, economic fair play violations, labor standards infractions, and more is not the way to get the …
Trump Sends Multimillion-Dollar Bills to Clean Energy Producers
Why is the administration handing cash to fossil fuels while crippling solar and wind? The Trump administration this week ended a two-year rent holiday for sol…
Trump EPA OK’s Rocket Fuel Chemical in Drinking Water
Perchlorate works great in rockets, but not so great in a child’s brain. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has decided not to regulate perchlorate…
Success in Greater Cincinnati for Clean Transportation
Residents in Hamilton County, home to the City of Cincinnati and its surrounding metropolitan area, showed their commitment to cleaner, more reliable public tr…
Why Is COVID-19 Relief Money Going to Trump’s Buddies in Coal?
Trump has already proved coal can’t be saved, but he’s still willing to toss the industry millions of taxpayer dollars. The Trump administration has gifted at …
Republicans Want to Bail Out Big Oil but Not States and Cities?
The oil industry made a bunch of bad investments, and they want you to absorb the losses. The Federal Reserve appeared to clear the way Thursday for a stealth …
Trump’s Atomically Misguided Giveaway to the Dangerous Uranium Mining Industry
The White House is using the COVID-19 pandemic as a reason to propose relaxing environmental safeguards on uranium mining, which could open a mine near the Gra…
Trump’s EPA Proposed a Weak PFAS Rule. It Wasn’t Weak Enough for Trump.
Trump proves he won’t accept even the most milquetoast of chemical regulations. Fed up with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s inaction on the toxic co…
We Need Your Help to Fight Plastic Pollution in California
By Linda Escalante, NRDC Action Fund advisor I have been personally and professionally involved in the fight against marine plastic pollution for many years, i…
Trump Does Coal Barons a Favor at the Expense of Our Lungs
Get ready for more air pollution, courtesy of Donald Trump’s EPA. There is never a good time to make the air dirtier, but the Trump administration has chosen t…
Trump’s EPA Claims the Science on Air Pollution Is Unsettled
Data must get hard to interpret after you fire all your science advisors. Donald Trump’s U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has decided that the nation eithe…