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.

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...

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 suing to restore full protections to this special monument.

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

Our broad coalition is fighting the Trump administration to keep our coasts permanently off-limits to oil and gas drilling.

NRDC, partners, and coastal states sued to stop seismic blasting in the Atlantic Ocean, which threatens marine life like the endangered North Atlantic right whale.

The Bureau of Land Management failed to comply with the National Environmental Protection Act when it approved management plans in the Powder River Basin.

More than two years since the rusty patched bumblebee was listed as an endangered species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has yet to designate and protect the bee’s critical...