Court Battles

Fuel economy standards are good for our economy and our planet. When the former Trump administration unlawfully attempted to weaken enforcement of these standards, we challenged them—and won.

Once again, NRDC and our partners have moved to intervene to defend the monument’s legality.

NRDC is demanding EPA do its job under the Toxic Substances Control Act and consider the serious risks methylene chloride poses to workers and communities.

The USPS’s backward plan to purchase 150,000 gas-powered vehicles is based on an environmental review packed with errors.

NRDC is fighting to ban the use of a dangerous pesticide in household pet products.

In the 1960s, manufacturing companies in Tennessee dumped a toxic industrial solvent that causes cancer, as well as reproductive and neurological harm, into an unlined landfill. NRDC helped to hold...

Research shows neonics are highly toxic to wildlife, including key pollinators—and the EPA’s failure to act on that evidence violates the Endangered Species Act. So we’re suing.

With our partners, NRDC is defending the first and only national monument in the Atlantic Ocean.

To reinstate bedrock protections for more than 1,000 species of birds, NRDC and partners challenged a radical reinterpretation of the MBTA.

NRDC and our partners are advocating for the NRC to analyze the potentially grave environmental impacts of extending the operating licenses of two Florida nuclear reactors.