NRDC Responds to COVID-19

In Part Four of our “Pandemic at Work” series, two small-business owners, an office manager, and an undocumented meatpacking employee share where the last 15 months have left them.

We must build back from the pandemic better than before, lay the foundations for the strong, durable, and broad-based recovery we need, and promote a more just and equitable society.

With pressure mounting, NRDC advocates are calling on lawmakers to step up protections for renters in the next relief package while also pushing for systemic changes that will help affordable housing stay that way.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the inequities faced by food- and farmworkers who put their health in danger just by coming to work each day. NRDC is pushing to change that.

In Part Two of our “Pandemic at Work” series, three undocumented immigrants share their struggles for a paycheck, a future, and simply, acknowledgment.

The ongoing health and safety failures at the JBS meat-processing plant in Greeley, Colorado, highlight an industry-wide truth: It’s production over people, even in a deadly pandemic.

The pandemic continues to disproportionately affect low-income communities of color and threatens to plunge our economy deeper into a recession at a time when many are already struggling to meet basic needs. The federal government should help by investing in solutions that support people without causing more pollution—such as energy efficiency.

In Part Three of our “Pandemic at Work” series, a bus driver, airline custodian, and Uber driver reflect on their year “helping to keep the cogs of society rolling.”

In the midst of a pandemic, NRDC advocates are stepping up their work to prevent the risk of mass utility shutoffs, now and for the long-term.

As parts of the country begin to open up again, state and local eviction moratoriums are being lifted or will be allowed to expire—and threaten to plunge millions of vulnerable U.S. households into homelessness.

The global response to the COVID-19 crisis has shown that strong policy actions that seemed infeasible months ago were in fact implemented across the globe to avert disaster. This indicates that our governments (and businesses and other organizations) could take similarly strong (but much less disruptive) actions now to limit the climate crisis.

It will take the highest levels of international cooperation, but by working to curb wildlife trade and conserve vast swaths of disappearing habitat, we can minimize the interspecies interactions that spread viruses.

Our thoughts are with you, and our work protecting the environment continues.

Senator Jeff Merkley and Representative Nanette Barragán introduced legislation today that would limit access of fossil fuel companies to federal bailouts that respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

As the world slows down in response to COVID-19, we’re being given the chance to recalibrate our systems toward justice, equity, and planetary health.

Amidst a public health crisis, the agency will indefinitely suspend environmental protections that help keep our air and water safe.

When it comes to health and environmental disasters, we are failing to turn mistakes into lessons and lessons into action.

In Part One of our “Pandemic at Work” series, a hotel housekeeper, a fast-food worker/drugstore manager, and an elementary school janitor share their journeys through 2020—and anxieties for 2021.

But future packages need to make sure that polluting industries aren’t treated with more deference than average citizens.

It’s frightening to see just how fragile our societal ecosystem is. But we have the chance to prove how resilient it is, too.

We need to ensure a strong and well-functioning food system, and that the most vulnerable in our food chain are adequately supported.

COVID-19 has upended daily life. Here are some small steps you can take to help make your time spent indoors cleaner, calmer, and greener.

COVID-19 is revealing strengths—and weaknesses—that deserve our attention.

Congress missed a huge opportunity to help the most vulnerable families and lift the economy at the same time: increasing SNAP benefits so more families can buy groceries.

Congress needs to take immediate action to ensure our small- and mid-sized farms survive.

Nature will neither politely wait for our healthcare system to deal with one disaster at a time nor just offer disasters we’ve seen before.

All sectors of the U.S. economy have been pummeled by the COVID-19 pandemic, making it critical to support all those whose jobs have been affected.

People laboring to get food from farm to fridge deserve basic workplace protections and equitable access to healthcare.

With multiple COVID-19 vaccines now making their way through the country, cities can begin looking ahead to economic recovery from the pandemic.