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Natural Resources Defense Council | The Earth's Best Defense
The Trump administration and Big Oil are adding fuel to the fire of this climate crisis.
Culturally significant lands like Chaco Canyon are on the chopping block as the Trump administration gears up to hand over more lands to Big Oil. We need to step up and protect this historical site for generations to come. 👇🧵
Our Emmy-winning film Sonic Sea is now available for free on YouTube—a powerful story about how human-made ocean noise is harming marine life and what we can do to stop it. Watch it now: https://on.nrdc.org/4wQJo0E
As communities suffer record-setting heat waves and storms, Trump’s EPA says fighting climate change is too hard in an attempt to avoid their legal responsibility to address it. 👇🧵
Mbappé brought goals. Norway brought chants. And climate change is bringing some of the hottest World Cup matches in history.👇🧵
After a failed attempt to repeal the Grand Staircase–Escalante management plan, the Trump administration has moved to gut two national monuments in Utah—Grand Staircase–Escalante and Bears Ears.
NRDC’s senior vice president of environmental health, Matthew Tejada, talks about Big Oil’s response to EVs and clean energy. Listen to the latest episode of What the Earth: https://on.nrdc.org/4vgsqY5
Big Oil has called the shots for decades. How did we get here, and what can we do about it? Listen to the latest episode of What the Earth. https://on.nrdc.org/4vgsqY5
The 10-year legal battle to remove lead pipes in Flint is officially closed! Flint changed the conversation about environmental justice in communities across the country and put a spotlight on the ongoing lead crisis in the U.S.
Decades of federal research funding have led to breakthroughs in medicine, technology, and environmental science, but the Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget proposal aims to derail this. Submit a comment telling President Trump to fund science research:https://on.nrdc.org/4eTk3Nq
At a time when millions of American families are facing heat waves, stronger storms, and rising electricity bills, the Trump administration is wasting taxpayer dollars to keep coal—a more expensive, dirty source of power—alive instead of investing in cheaper, cleaner energy.
We’ve worked nonstop to protect the Gulf of California, also known as the Aquarium of the World, from the dangerous liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry. Our fight continues as the industrial ambitions grow and corporations are determined to turn this biodiverse area into a gas station. 👇🧵
Big Oil must pay for polluting our lands. Submit a comment now to stop this disastrous plan in its tracks: https://on.nrdc.org/4eTiJZH
President Trump and his administration have waged a coordinated campaign against the safeguards protecting our communities and planet from corporate polluters. 👇🧵
As families struggle to make ends meet, oil companies are raking in billions and using those profits for stock buybacks so their CEOs, boards, and shareholders can get even richer.
This is a major win, considering the relentless attacks on clean air and public health. These safer limits—set under the Biden EPA—are estimated to avoid 800,000 cases of asthma symptoms, 2,000 hospital visits, and 4,500 premature deaths each year by 2032.
We need your help to stop major polluters from destroying this critical and vulnerable habitat. Submit a comment today: https://on.nrdc.org/4eOmf7E
Our chief program officer, Julie Cerqueira, talks about the necessity of reforming our energy sector in the latest episode of What the Earth: https://on.nrdc.org/44o0hTT
Our chief program officer, Julie Cerqueira, walks us through what it really takes to build resiliency in our energy sector in the latest episode of What the Earth: https://on.nrdc.org/44o0hTT
Last year, President Trump allowed polluting facilities to exempt themselves from clean air standards that protect public health by simply sending an email. This is another glaring example of the Trump administration putting our health at risk to line Big Polluters’ pockets.
It’s gotten so ridiculous that coal plants and chemical factories simply had to send the EPA an email to get exempt from pollution rules. As pollution causes more cancer, more asthma attacks, and more flooded communities, the EPA is abandoning their mission—and us.
America’s Arctic hosts over 42 million acres of ecologically significant public land. Listen to how oil and gas development can irreparably harm it in the latest episode of What the Earth: https://on.nrdc.org/4xjOkMf
Our director of federal affairs, Katie Hobbs, talks about the risks of opening up the Arctic for oil and gas development in the latest episode of What the Earth: https://on.nrdc.org/4xjOkMf
With 500 attacks in just 500 days, the Trump administration has cemented their place as the worst in history for our environment and public health. And in courtrooms across the country, we’ve been fighting back every step of the way.
The Trump administration is planning to auction off lands near Arizona’s iconic Grand Canyon National Park and Grand Canyon–Parashant National Monument for oil and gas drilling. Submit a comment to help us fight back: https://on.nrdc.org/4e20d0v
We shouldn’t have to shoulder the responsibility of solving the plastics crisis when the industry urgently needs to change. But we can still make lifestyle changes to reduce our exposure to harmful microplastics. Learn more tips at stopmicromonsters.org
We fought alongside partners for over a decade, and now the rusty patched bumblebee has secure habitat protections for years to come.
Nobody wants to eat food with toxic chemicals, but pesticide use is a fixture of modern agriculture. Our managing director of food & agriculture, Rebecca Riley, talks about finding a middle ground that protects people (and bees) in the latest episode of What the Earth: https://on.nrdc.org/3Q5SfLZ
Only 380 North Atlantic right whales remain, and if the Trump administration has it their way, there will be none left. Submit a comment now to safeguard long-standing protections for this species: https://on.nrdc.org/4wYV0iI