Care About the Climate Crisis? It’s Time to Go All In.
NASA just reported June 2019 was the hottest month in recorded history, and July’s global average temperature will likely be even hotter. All-time heat records are being broken with alarming regularity now both in the U.S. and across the world, and obvious impacts are everywhere - severe floods, fires,…
Climate Deniers Warn GOP Lawmakers: Stay Loyal
“I don’t lose any sleep over it.”Those were the words Interior Secretary David Bernhardt used at a House hearing on May 15 to describe his level of concern about CO2 levels reaching 415 ppm in Earth’s atmosphere, an astounding level of carbon pollution that, if left unchecked, would doom…
House Passes First Climate Bill in a Decade
WASHINGTON (May 2, 2019) – The House of Representatives today, in a bipartisan vote, passed H.R.9, the Climate Action Now Act.The following is a statement from Kevin S. Curtis, executive director of the NRDC Action Fund:“This vote is a response to the call for action from Americans across the country…
Congress, Press Releases | |GOP’s Climate Deniers Feeling the Heat
At a recent forum in Washington, leading climate science skeptic Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute told attendees that one of the “dangers” of the Green New Deal is that “it’s creating a very large space for a certain class of people, many of them in the Republican…
A New Call to National Climate Action
Minutes after opening the 116th Congress last week, incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi issued a stirring call to national action on what she called “the existential threat of our time: the climate crisis.”In Pelosi we have a leader who is listening to the science—and to the American people across the…
10 Climate Champions Coming to Washington
Sen.-elect Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.)The 2018 midterm elections swept dozens of pro-environment candidates into Congress, and several of these newly-elected members are themselves scientists or environmental advocates. They’re the type of forward-thinking leaders who the NRDC Action Fund worked hard to help elect in 2018, and who America needs in…
Latest Climate Reports Demand Bold, Immediate Action
The Trump administration tried to bury the Fourth National Climate Assessment by releasing it on Black Friday, hoping most Americans would be too busy bargain shopping to notice the blockbuster report. But that tactic backfired spectacularly as mainstream news outlets pounced on the story.Based on the assessment by scientists…
Congress | |Coastal South Carolina Voters Reject Offshore Drilling
The environment was one key reason Republicans lost the midterms, according to an op-ed from Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.), in yesterday’s NY Times:The environment matters to voters. As a party, we have somehow forgotten that conservatism should apply to more than just financial resources. Being conservative should entail being conservative…
Americans Vote for Powerful Check on Trump’s Anti-Environment Agenda
Americans from coast-to-coast have voted for change. They rejected President Trump’s pro-polluter politics, instead handing control of the House of Representatives to a leadership team that embraces common sense environmental safeguards and welcomes the clean energy economy.Lawmakers in the House will be able to hold the Trump administration accountable…
10 Anti-Environment House Members We Won’t Miss in 2019
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), climate denier and endangered incumbent.The 2018 election is likely to bring a lot of new faces to Washington, and some anti-environment House incumbents will likely be out of a job. Here are several we certainly wouldn’t miss if they are defeated. These races, some rated…
Are You Ready for November 6th?
With less than a week to go until Election Day, many races are deadlocked and control of Congress is up for grabs. The margins may be small, but the stakes are enormous. This is our biggest chance yet to tell President Trump and his pro-polluter allies in Congress that…
8 Senate Races We’re Watching This Year
Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.)The NRDC Action Fund’s primary goal in the 2018 election cycle is to defend—and with some luck expand—our Senate Green Firewall. To that end, we’ve endorsed a record 20 environmental champions in Senate races across the country, but a handful of them face a challenging path…
New Climate Report Raises Stakes on 2018 Elections
A polar bear drifts on a melted glacier. (Photo: NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland mission)The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) gathered in South Korea this week and delivered a dire warning: unless unprecedented steps are taken by the world’s governments to reduce emissions in the next decade, our planet…
NRDC Action Fund Endorses Beto O’Rourke in Texas Senate Race
The NRDC Action Fund, a national environmental organization, today announced its endorsement of Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D) in his campaign for the U.S. Senate in Texas.“Beto O’Rourke shares the values of Texas families who care about safe water, clean air and protecting wildlife and wild places,” said Kevin S.…
The Senate Has Voted. Now it’s Our Turn.
The NRDC Action Fund opposed Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination because a thorough examination of his lengthy legal record showed he has repeatedly ruled in ways that would weaken the common-sense laws and regulations all Americans rely on to protect our families and the environment. When Kavanaugh’s character and…
Kavanaugh’s Clouded Environmental Record
Unless something extraordinary happens, Chairman Chuck Grassley will gavel to order the Senate Judiciary hearings on Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court next Tuesday. Weather forecasters are predicting a high temperature that’s 15 degrees above average for the Washington DC area. Political forecasters will be watching to see how Judge Kavanaugh weathers the…
Congress | |Save the Senate’s “Green Firewall”
It’s no secret that the Trump administration wants to neuter the EPA’s ability to enforce our clean air and clean water laws, repeatedly submitting budgets that would dramatically cut the agency’s funding. But for the votes of a key bloc of pro-environment senators – the U.S. Senate’s “Green Firewall”…
Endangered species now in Washington’s crosshairs
Nearly half a century after President Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act into law, Congress, the Trump administration and anti-environment lobbyists across Washington, D.C. are attempting the largest rollback of this visionary conservation law in its history. They are clearly worried about the upcoming elections, so they’re rushing to…
Montana GOP picks anti-environment Senate nominee
Republican primary voters in Montana last week chose State Auditor Matt Rosendale (R) to challenge U.S. Sen. Jon Tester (D) this November, setting up a contest between two candidates whose environmental records could not be more different. Tester, a third-generation farmer, is a pragmatic champion for public lands, clean rivers and…
