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Advocates "Race for the Cause" to End Toxic Chemicals Threats
WASHINGTON (July 29, 2010) – In front of a giant inflatable rubber duck meant to illustrate how even the simplest items can contain unsafe chemicals, a crowd of scientists, health professionals, parents, children and advocates participated in the inaugural “Race for the Cause” on the National Mall today.
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EPA Follows the Science, Denies Climate Deniers' Petition
WASHINGTON (July 29, 2010) -- EPA today denied petitions from a rogues gallery of climate deniers who had asked the agency to reconsider its scientific finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health and the environment.
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Ports Bill Paves the Way for Clean Air Programs Across the Country
WASHINGTON (July 29, 2010) -- Legislation introduced today by Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) seeks to reduce truck-borne pollution in and around our nation’s shipping ports, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. The federal legislation will protect port authority to implement stronger environmental standards on trucks and protect the pioneering Clean Truck Program established in October 2008 by the Port of Los Angeles.
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NRDC’s 20th Annual Beach Report: Gulf Coast Beach Warnings Skyrocket Due to Oil and Pollution Persists in Waves Nationwide
WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 28, 2010) – Pollution continues to contaminate the water at America’s beaches, causing 18,682 closing and advisory days in 2009, while this year the oil disaster has already led to 2,239 days of beach closing, advisories, and notices in the Gulf region, according to the 20th annual beachwater quality report released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
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Lawsuit Seeks Final Rule on ‘Antibacterial’ Chemicals After 32-Year Delay
WASHINGTON (July 27, 2010) -- The Natural Resources Defense Council filed a lawsuit today against the Food and Drug Administration for failing to issue a final rule regulating the chemicals triclosan and triclocarban, which are commonly found in antibacterial soaps. These chemicals are suspected endocrine disruptors linked to reproductive and developmental harm in laboratory studies. NRDC filed today’s lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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Majority Leader Reid Introduces Plan to Prevent Future Oil Spills
WASHINGTON (July 27, 2010) – Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nevada) today introduced a Clean Energy jobs and Oil Spill Accountability Plan. The following is a statement by Sarah Chasis, Director of the Oceans Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
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Whitebark Pine: Climate Change Has This Tree in Trouble
CHICAGO (July 22, 2010) – A troubling picture of climate change impacts ravaging western North America is emerging at high elevations where an important species is rapidly disappearing. This week a groundbreaking report from the Natural Resources Defense Council and a key Endangered Species List decision both pointed to growing danger that the whitebark pine tree could become functionally extinct before the end of this decade, severely impacting many American and Canadian forests and potentially downstream fisheries and communities. The new report shows that over 80% of the whitebark pine forests of Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana are already dead or dying.
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NRDC to Senate Climate Obstructionists: Stop Blocking Our Future
WASHINGTON (July 22, 2010) -- Following is a statement from David Hawkins, Director of Climate Programs at the Natural Resources Defense Council:
“Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today delivered very bad news to the American people. Continuing obstructionism by the Senate Republican leadership, joined by a handful of Democratic senators, is still blocking the way forward on essential clean energy and climate legislation....
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Report: More than One Out of Three U.S. Counties Face Water Shortages Due to Climate Change
WASHINGTON (July 20, 2010) -- More than 1,100 U.S. counties -- a full one-third of all counties in the lower 48 states -- now face higher risks of water shortages by mid-century as the result of global warming, and more than 400 of these counties will be at extremely high risk for water shortages, based on estimates from a new report by Tetra Tech for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
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Oil-Seeking Robot Deployed off Florida Keys
SUMMERLAND KEY, FL (July 19, 2010) – An underwater robot that can detect the first signs of undersea oil plumes was launched off the Florida Keys today in an effort to better track the movement of oil plumes and to help protect the Florida Keys against possible impacts from the Gulf oil disaster. The Mote Marine Laboratory robot is nicknamed Waldo and its mission to enhance current oil tracking research was commissioned by the Natural Resources Defense Council and Oceana.
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President Obama to Create Landmark National Ocean Policy
NEW YORK, N.Y. (July 19, 2010) – Press reports indicate that today President Obama will make environmental history by adopting the first-ever comprehensive national policy for America’s oceans, coasts and Great Lakes, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council.
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Asian Carp Spreading; Threaten to Trump Feds
CHICAGO (July 1, 2010) -- The discovery of spawning Asian carp in the Wabash River shows the crisis is advancing on multiple fronts and demands aggressive and immediate action to deal with the Asian carp crisis, says a coalition of national and Great Lakes groups. 
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Lawsuit Seeks to Hold Administration Accountable for Marine Mammal Harm in Gulf
NEW ORLEANS (June 30, 2010) – Today several environmental groups filed suit against the renamed Minerals Management Service (MMS) regarding the use of powerful seismic surveys throughout the Gulf of Mexico, known to disrupt marine mammal feeding and breeding and basic communication over vast areas of the ocean. The groups contend that MMS, which is now known as the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement, failed to adequately analyze the substantial impacts of seismic surveys on the Gulf’s marine environment before permitting activities there, in clear violation of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
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South Bronx Win: Settlement Reached in Case Against Sewage Odors; Sewage Sludge Plant Set to Close Today
NEW YORK (June 30, 2010) -- A major environmental justice case in the South Bronx was settled today as New York City agreed to resolve long-standing community concerns regarding odors and emissions from sewage facilities in the Hunts Point neighborhood.
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