Court Battles

NRDC is working with a top environmental justice watchdog to clean up a chemical plant in California.

A ruling secured by NRDC and others will save hundreds of wolves nationwide. But the fight to protect them isn’t over.

California has failed to fully implement hazardous waste laws at metal shredding facilities like Schnitzer Steel—and communities are suffering for it.

NRDC and our partners are suing to restore full protections to this special monument.

The massive pipeline threatened our climate and public health—and the government’s approvals violated environmental laws. So we went to court.

In 2000, NRDC and the Maine People’s Alliance sued Mallinckrodt—a former owner of a plant that contaminated the Penobscot River with toxic mercury—to seek a cleanup.

NRDC and partners fought to restore protections to this national monument of incomparable cultural and natural significance.

The president does not have the authority to reduce or rescind national monuments created under the Antiquities Act. So we sued to protect Utah’s Grand Staircase–Escalante.

When the city of Los Angeles approved the construction of a noisy, polluting rail yard in a low-income community of color, NRDC went to court on behalf of local groups.

The Trump-era rule narrowed the scope of the Clean Water Act by revoking federal protections for countless streams, wetlands, and other waters.