President Biden’s Historic Commitment to the Great Lakes
The efforts funded by the bipartisan infrastructure law will clean up—and restore—our greatest natural resource. This week, President Biden announced an…
White House | |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…
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…
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…
How the American Rescue Plan Act Fights Climate Change
The American Rescue Plan Act, signed into law by President Biden earlier this month, contains significant provisions that begin to fulfill Biden’s campaign pro…
Biden Can Unite the Country by Taking Strong Action on Climate Change
The American people have been united for decades on the importance of clean air, clean water, and access to economic opportunity. Now, as President Biden takes…
Federal, White House | |How We Helped Make 2020 “The Climate Election”
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the White House on a bold promise to rebuild America, invest in our long-neglected infrastructure and create jobs while tacklin…
Trump Lets Dangerous Coal Ash Ponds Pollute Indefinitely
Ignoring massive toxic spills and years of research, Trump pretends unlined coal ash ponds are safe. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced t…
Federal, White House | |The Worst Polluters Are Getting an Easy Ride Under Trump
Clean Water Act prosecutions dropped 70 percent and Clean Air Act prosecutions dropped 50 percent, compared to those during the Obama years. The Trump administ…
Federal, White House | |Trump Administration Denies Wolverines Protection Under the Endangered Species Act
Climate change is rapidly shrinking the habitat of this iconic and dwindling North American species, but the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has apparently forg…
Federal, White House | |Trump Administration Tells Tribes They Have No Say in Oil Drilling on Their Lands
The Supreme Court ruled that half of Oklahoma is tribal land—yet the EPA says the tribes don’t get to control fossil fuel extraction on those lands. The Trump …
Federal, White House | |Trump Is Stalling on the Country’s Most Important Climate Change Report
The Trump administration should have started working on the next National Climate Assessment already—but it hasn’t yet recruited a single scientist. The Trump …
Federal, White House | |The Trump Administration Tried to Suppress a Study Showing Oil Drilling’s Threat to Alaska’s Polar Bears
U.S. Geological Survey director Jim Reilly, who—surprise, surprise—used to work for the oil industry, is telling scientists how to count polar bear dens in the…
Federal, White House | |Trump Repeals Decades-Old and Very Effective Air Pollution Rule
The “once in, always in” policy has prevented 1.7 million tons of hazardous emissions from entering the country’s air. The U.S. Environmental Protection …
Federal, White House | |The Trump Administration Says It’s Doing a Good Job Cleaning Toxic Waste Sites—Don’t Fall for It.
The president is using an accounting trick to claim credit for past administrations’ work in remediating Superfund sites. Under Donald Trump, the U.S. Environm…
Federal, White House | |Trump Moves to Block California’s Transition to Electric Vehicles
Trump loves nothing more than to troll the Golden State. If there’s one thing Donald Trump knows how to do, it’s troll. And he’s doing it again to one of his f…
Federal, White House | |Trump Has Offered NOAA Jobs to Nearly Every High-Profile Climate Change Denier
The president is trying to leave an enduring legacy of science denial at the nation’s premiere climate agency. The Trump administration is attempting to pack t…
Federal, White House | |Trump’s Lead Contamination Plan Is a Sham
As long as lead service lines deliver our water, there will be more Flints. In the run-up to Election Day, you’re going to hear the Trump administration boast …
Federal, White House | |Trump Ignores EPA Data Showing Pesticide Threatens Children’s Brains
A large body of data shows chlorpyrifos causes learning disabilities, but Trump’s EPA is looking the other way. Five years ago, scientists at the U.S. Environm…
Federal, White House | |Trump Recommends a Climate Change Minimizer as NOAA Chief Scientist
Ryan Maue, a self-described “lukewarmist,” is the second climate contrarian headed to NOAA within a month. The count is now at two for climate contrarians head…
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