2019: A Year of Climate Action

This was the year that the climate crisis broke through, with a massive youth-led movement taking to the streets in cities across the globe and the internation…
LCV, NRDC Action Fund Launch $200K Digital Ad Campaign in Support of Clean Energy Tax Credits

Washington, D.C. — The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) and the NRDC Action Fund will spend a combined $200,000 on digital ad campaigns thanking envir…
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…
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 ab…
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…
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 …
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 …
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…