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 fro…
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” o…
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 “th…
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…
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 …
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 environme…
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 Representat…
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…
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…
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 t…
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 i…
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 T…
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 rul…
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 …
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 tha…
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 acros…
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…
