Court Battles

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

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.

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

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.