Winning in 2024 Takes Focus. Here’s Ours.
With just weeks to go until Election Day, many voters across the country have already begun casting their ballots. They face a clear choice between building on…
Kamala Harris Is the Climate Champion We Need in the White House
Meanwhile, Trump’s playbook, Project 2025, is a right-wing road map to environmental ruin and runaway climate disaster. Vice President Kamala Harris is a clima…
GOP Climate Denial Comes Roaring Back at First Debate
Republicans’ embrace of outright climate denial came roaring back at last night’s first debate of the 2024 presidential primary contest. And given the gl…
NRDC Action Fund TV Ad Hits Oil Companies’ Price Gouging
The NRDC Action Fund today launched a national television ad calling on Congress to move quickly to pass clean energy legislation that will help to end America…
Get Back to Work on the Build Back Better Act
Last week’s devastating wildfire in my hometown of Boulder, Colorado—pushed by hurricane-force winds and fueled by drought-ravaged grasslands—sent thousands fl…
California Oil Disaster Brings New Urgency to Calls to Ban Drilling
We have to transition away from fossil fuels. That’s why it’s essential that Congress pass budget reconciliation with offshore drilling provisions—and enact Pr…
Federal | Valerie Cleland |New Ad Thanks Rep. Delgado for Leadership on Safe Drinking Water
President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda isn’t just about creating jobs and fighting climate change. The legislative package now being debated on Capitol Hil…
Poll: Democrats Risk Losing Majority Without Climate Action
Democrats will find it difficult to motivate the young voters they need to maintain control of the House and Senate next year if they are unable to pass the si…
To Build Back Better, Fix Trump’s Disastrous Tax Giveaways
NRDC and the NRDC Action Fund opposed the 2017 Trump tax giveaway to corporations and the wealthy because, among many other injustices, it starved our governme…
Poll: New Mexicans support moving to 100% clean energy economy
A new poll from the NRDC Action Fund and Conservation Voters New Mexico shows that New Mexican voters are ready to transition into a renewable future. As Congr…
Marco Rubio is Missing in Action on Climate Change
Florida’s senators have abandoned their responsibility to represent the interests of their constituents when it comes to climate change. This crisis has dire c…
The Filibuster Rule is Broken: It’s Time to Fix It
The Senate filibuster rule is broken. It’s time to fix it through reforms that encourage bipartisanship without enabling a petulant and self-serving minority t…
A Week of Action to End Fossil Fuel Subsidies
The NRDC Action Fund has joined more than 500 organizations from the environmental, faith and public health communities calling on Congress to eliminate taxpay…
Does Bipartisanship Have a Prayer?
As an environmentalist, I’ve never seen support for clean air, safe water and sustainable habitat as something that should divide us, red state and blue. If an…
Biden’s Plan to Get the Lead Out of Our Water (and Children’s Bodies)
Lead poisons people, particularly children. That’s why the federal government mandated lead-free gasoline and prohibited the sale of lead-based paints decades …
What an Electric F-150 Means for America
As the unveiling of Ford’s electric vehicle shows, the U.S. shift to EVs has started—but it’s just the beginning of our cleaner future. President Biden’s visit…
Federal | Kevin S. Curtis and Luke Tonachel |A Travesty for the GOP—and a Crisis for the Country
Liz Cheney is no friend of a healthy environment. Last year alone, the Wyoming Republican voted against critical measures to confront climate change, maintain …
Americans Support “Going Big” on Jobs and Infrastructure
It turns out “going big” on infrastructure is pretty popular with the American public. New polling shows Americans (of all political stripes) overwhelmingly su…
Tell Your Senators, Regardless of Party: Pass the For the People Act
The bill will set standards for federal elections and restore essential voter protections—superseding the wave of state-level hurdles being created by the GOP.…
The Fight Begins to Build Back Better
President Biden’s “American Jobs Plan,” announced yesterday in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is the next step on his bold campaign pledge to create millions of goo…