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Meet the lawyer taking the EPA to court to protect our planet. Meredith Hankins is leading a team that’s suing the Trump administration as they ignore climate change and let polluters off the hook. 👇🧵

Our director of policy analysis, Amanda Levin, talks about the history of coal power and what’s in line to replace it moving forward. Listen to the full episode of our podcast, What the Earth: https://on.nrdc.org/3OSKCrl

NRDC to EPA: Get the Rocket Fuel Out of Our Water Already! With endurance, grit, and a couple lawsuits, we’ve spent decades pushing for meaningful perchlorate protections—but will the government finally set one?

We’ve been pushing to get perchlorate—a toxic chemical used in rocket fuel—out of our drinking water for decades. Now, the EPA is under court order to develop a long overdue safety standard for perchlorate, but they’re dragging their feet.

The Trump administration just got rid of carbon emissions restrictions on cars and trucks—the move will hike up gas prices and repair costs for Americans as greedy fossil fuel companies boost their profits.

Chokehold: The Trump administration’s stealth plan to unleash poisonous air The EPA stopped valuing the lives it could save​​, setting up a deregulatory disaster that will be hazardous to your health.

The EPA’s mission is to protect public health, not polluters. But under President Trump, they’re rolling back life-saving clean air standards, ignoring science, and putting the fossil fuel industry over our health and future.

The House majority's Farm Bill fails to meet the moment cutting conservation, rolling back environmental protections, and threatening rural energy savings, which would put corporate interests over family farmers. Congress must craft a bipartisan bill that delivers.
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GOOD NEWS: Sempra listened to the people of Mexico and canceled its proposed Vista Pacifico fossil fuel project in the Gulf of California, a UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the “Aquarium of the World.” This is a huge step forward to protect the region’s rich biodiversity and coastal communities.

After years of calling climate change a “hoax,” President Trump and his administration are ignoring the crisis and giving polluters free reign. We’re already in court, fighting to stop the EPA’s illegal move to end emissions limits on cars and trucks.

Trump Bets That ‘Energy Dominance’ Will Make War in Iran Less Costly

The Trump administration’s push to export U.S. oil is driving up what Americans pay at the pump. Adopting clean, reliable power is true energy security because “what’s not spiking today is the cost of wind and solar,” says our President and CEO, Manish Bapna.

Forcing Michigan’s Coal Plant to Stay Open Was Just the Beginning The Trump administration’s so-called emergency orders to keep burning dirty coal comes at a huge cost to ratepayers across the country.

Communities across Michigan are ready to move forward with clean energy, but the Trump administration is forcing the J.H. Campbell coal plant to stay open. This move drives up energy bills, creates more pollution, and undermines the clean, healthy future that communities deserve.

Help us tell the EPA that it’s time to get rocket fuel out of our drinking water once and for all! Take action now: https://on.nrdc.org/4tV2npY

Battleground Pennsylvania: What We’re Really Talking About with Energy Affordability and Data Centers Wawa vs. Sheetz is divisive—energy affordability isn’t.

As the rapid growth of data centers strains the grid and drives up electricity costs, most people in Pennsylvania want the state to lead on clean, affordable energy. The biggest users must pay their fair share and support new clean energy to meet rising demands and keep the lights on for everyone.

Trump claims his pollution rollback will save Americans money – but climate change is raising household costs And the cost of new cars may not even come down.

As unnatural disasters intensify, the EPA repealed a key scientific finding that climate change harms our health. Without adequate protections, climate impacts will grow—and so will insurance rates, health care expenses, and disaster recovery costs.

Removing the EPA Endangerment Finding hurts us | Opinion Even though we are talking about a federal action, the impacts are always local and always personal.

Trump’s EPA revoked a key scientific finding that climate pollution threatens our health, scrapping carbon pollution limits for cars and trucks. Its own analysis shows this rollback will increase costs in vehicle fuel and maintenance—plus add major climate and health costs.

Our executive director, Christy Goldfuss, talks about how to tap into the power of the people for pivotal change. Listen to the full episode of our podcast, What the Earth: https://on.nrdc.org/3N6k0T8

Ignoring the law, President Trump’s EPA declared that they won’t act on climate change. Families are already shouldering the costs of the climate crisis with higher electricity bills, dirtier air, and worsening health problems—now, it’s only going to get worse.

Our director of policy analysis, Amanda Levin, analyzed data quietly uploaded by the EPA that shows a spike in toxic air pollution—especially in facilities given a presidential exemption.

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E.P.A. Faces First Lawsuit Over Its Killing of Major Climate Rule

The EPA was created to protect Americans from polluters, but it's undermining its own ability to protect people from climate pollution, abandoning its core mission. Alongside our partners, we’re suing the EPA for this unscientific, illegal, and irresponsible move.

Reflecting on historical wins, our fossil fuels policy advocate, Zanagee Artis, tells us why advocacy is so inspiring and important for our country to grow. Listen to the full episode here: https://on.nrdc.org/3N6k0T8

Exclusive | U.S. Power-Plant Pollution Rose Sharply in 2025 The increase was a rare uptick in an otherwise long-term downward trend, partly because of more coal being burned to generate electricity.

JUST IN: EPA data shows that toxic air pollution from power plants spiked last year—with those given a presidential exemption surging the most. President Trump’s plan to give polluters a free pass is in motion, and we’re already suffering the consequences.

In another cash grab for big polluters, the Trump administration is attempting to hold a lease sale in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Submit a comment now to help stop them: https://on.nrdc.org/4cMmn83

Trump climate health rollback likely to hit poor, minority areas hardest, experts say The Trump administration’s revocation of a scientific finding that climate change is a danger to public health is likely to affect communities of color the most.

The EPA’s move to repeal a longstanding scientific finding that climate change endangers human health will cost lives. Without adequate protections, heatwaves, floods, and other unnatural disasters will get worse, hitting communities of color and low-income families hardest.

Contributor: Don't let natural gas exports wreck the Gulf of California ecosystem Sempra, the California utility, is promoting one of the major new terminals for liquefied natural gas on the shore of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Sempra, a major California utility company, plans to build a massive fossil fuel project in the Gulf of California, a UNESCO World Heritage site known as the “aquarium of the world”. The project puts endangered species and fragile marine habitats at risk.

The EPA Uses Funny Math to Justify Its Repeal of Clean Car Standards In fact, the agency's own final regulatory analysis confirms that eliminating vehicle greenhouse gas standards would raise costs for drivers and households.

The EPA’s move to repeal the endangerment finding and eliminate all carbon pollution limits for vehicles ignores its own analysis, which shows that this rollback would raise costs for drivers and households.

President Trump’s EPA just repealed the legal and scientific conclusion that climate change is real and gutted restrictions on climate pollution from vehicles. It already said it would stop factoring in lives saved to its cost-benefit analysis of air pollution rules. Now, we’re taking them to court.