NRDCEnvironmental Justice Crusader for Climate Justice NRDC - Brian Palmer Senior attorney Al Huang litigates and advocates in partnership with low-income communities and communities of color throughout the country that are …
NRDCClimate Change As the Ocean Encroaches, this Washington State Tribe Is Building Its Next Chapter NRDC - Jodi Helmer When Fawn Sharp was a child, her village in coastal Washington looked different. “We used to have a beach that was the size of a football field,” she …
NRDCSocial Distancing How Healthy Is America’s Public Health Infrastructure? NRDC - Jeff Turrentine COVID-19 is revealing strengths—and weaknesses—that deserve our attention. From day to day, our public health infrastructure—the people and systems …
NRDCPalawan Women Are Leading the Charge to Save the Philippines’ Last Frontier NRDC - Nicole Greenfield Caffeine factored heavily into Jessa Belle Garibay-Yayen’s early days of getting the Centre for Sustainability PH off the ground. Six years ago, when …
NRDCPandemics Even in Our Isolation, COVID-19 Reminds Us That We Are One NRDC - Jeff Turrentine It’s frightening to see just how fragile our societal ecosystem is. But we have the chance to prove how resilient it is, too. To write something …
NRDCMontreal Protocol Clean Air Warrior NRDC - Brian Palmer As NRDC’s chief global warming lawyer, David Doniger has long been on the frontlines of the battle against air pollution. He helped formulate the …
NRDCArt When Art Captures the Wind and the Rain—and a Bit of Ourselves NRDC - Patrick Rogers “Weather Forecast” fills a Connecticut museum with the works of 25 artists who explore what’s happening in the atmosphere and, inextricably, to …
NRDCTap Water How to Protect Yourself from Lead-Contaminated Water NRDC - Courtney Lindwall Health experts agree that there is no safe level of exposure to lead. Often making its way into our drinking water supply after leaching from old …
NRDCPesticides We Should Be Listening to Our Scientists and Experts Right Now—Not Driving Them Away. NRDC - Jeff Turrentine You know it. I know it. But does the Trump administration know it? Back in 2017, a few weeks before Donald Trump became the most powerful individual …
NRDCOffshore Drilling Ocean Steward NRDC - Brian Palmer In 1973, Sarah Chasis became NRDC’s first full-time female lawyer. Over the ensuing decades, she would go on to protect sensitive areas from offshore …
NRDCArt The Art of Agnes Denes May Be as Big (and Long-Lasting) as Her Legacy NRDC - Patrick Rogers In her mixing of art, mathematics, and environmentalism, Denes has been making “future works” since the 1970s. For five decades, conceptual artist …
NRDCRights & Freedoms To Honor the Memory of Berta Cáceres, We Need Laws that Protect Our Protectors NRDC - Jeff Turrentine With the Escazú Agreement, Latin American and Carribean countries could help keep their environmental and human rights activists from facing violent …
NRDCUrban Design Free Bus Service Is the Hot New Thing in Transit NRDC - Starre Vartan Bus riders in Washington State’s capital can board with their heads up—no more digging around in bags or pockets for coins. The city of Olympia now …
NRDCPeoria, IL This Is What a Just Transition Looks Like NRDC - Brian Palmer When Houston-based Dynegy Inc. acquired the Edwards power plant in Peoria County, Illinois, in 2013, locals were concerned. The company paid …
NRDCBirds Guam Rails Are No Longer Extinct in the Wild (Something Only One Other Bird Can Claim) NRDC - Jason Bittel Thanks to captive breeding efforts in Pittsburgh, the rails have returned to the forests of the Pacific. When you walk into the tropical rainforest …
NRDC Climate Deniers Unveil Their Latest P.R. Weapon NRDC - Jeff Turrentine Her name is Naomi Seibt and her message to the world: Let’s not beat ourselves up about burning fossil fuels—everything’s gonna be fine! Climate …
NRDCPollution What Does the Plastic Bag Ban Mean for New Yorkers? NRDC - Courtney Lindwall New Yorkers use a staggering 23 billion plastic bags each year—and when we’re done with them, they clog our waterways, harm wildlife, litter streets, …
NRDCFarming Sheep (and Soil Scientists) Juice Up the Solar Farm NRDC - Robynne Boyd This is a tale of two farms: White Oak Pastures and Bancroft Station Solar Farm. Both are located in rural southwestern Georgia, a region synonymous …
NRDCChemicals Toxic “Forever Chemicals” Came Between This Farmer, His Cows, and the Air Force NRDC - Tim Vanderpool When Art Schaap looks out across his sprawling property, he sees broad, blue skies and 4,000 milking cows. But it’s what he doesn’t see that has …
NRDCPolitics Shrinking Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante: Trump’s Monumental Mistake NRDC - Jeff Turrentine Opening up hallowed ground to oil and gas development is quite literally an act of desecration. Well, he told us he would do it. And now he’s actually …
NRDCChicago Politics Can a New Tax on Uber and Lyft Rides in Chicago Change Commuting Habits? NRDC - Susan Cosier In Chicago’s Loop, traffic abounds. Commuters board buses, city workers maneuver trucks, and cars of every make and model festooned with Lyft, Uber, …
NRDCClimate Change The City Insider Proving that Mayors Can Lead on Climate NRDC - Nicole Greenfield Chris Wheat doesn’t know exactly how he became a self-described “weird political geek,” but it happened early on in life. At five years old, he was …
NRDCUrban Agriculture A Garden Grows in Newark—and a Community Grows Around It NRDC - Jeff Turrentine How an urban farm became an anchor for the city’s South Ward. On a gray and chilly late-January day at the Hawthorne Avenue Farm in Newark, New …
NRDCClimate Change Lights, Camera, Action on Climate NRDC - Keith Mulvihill If Daniel Hinerfeld, NRDC’s director of content partnerships, gets his way, millions of television viewers could soon be watching a show that opens …
NRDCTransportation Denver Wants to Zoom Past Its Car-Centric Street Design NRDC - Lucas High Denver commuter Gerald Moore drives from his home in the Washington Park neighborhood to his office downtown five times a week. The trip is only a …
NRDC How Plastic Bottles Become Death Traps for Hermit Crabs NRDC - Jason Bittel Each year on two far-flung Australian islands, more than half a million hermit crabs die after becoming trapped inside our plastic waste. We’ve all …
NRDCHousing Defender of Energy Efficiency—and Equity NRDC - Keith Mulvihill Dawone Robinson, an energy efficiency advocate in NRDC’s Healthy People & Thriving Communities program, directs the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic …
NRDCAgriculture Industrial Agriculture 101 NRDC What Is Industrial Agriculture? Industrial agriculture is the large-scale, intensive production of crops and animals, often involving chemical …
NRDCPolitics The Trump Administration Wants to Set Water Safety Back 50 Years NRDC - Jeff Turrentine With their latest rollback, the president and the EPA chief show that they either don’t understand how water pollution works—or simply don’t care. By …
