Protect Our Planet
Help us gear up to defend our environment and climate from the Trump presidency.
Natural Resources Defense Council Building a better future
Two ballot initiatives involving the bag ban are on the ballot this November—but one of them is not what it seems.
Jeff Schacher knew that restaurants waste food. And that people are hungry. So he invented a tech-savvy way to rescue millions of meals.
Imagine dynamite going off in your neighborhood every 10 seconds. Now imagine you can’t leave. That’s how marine life experience offshore oil and gas exploration.
The answer lies not just in the carbon-capturing trees but also in the undisturbed boreal soils.
These harmful plasticizers are lurking in countless products, but companies don’t have to tell us which ones. Follow these tips to purge them from your home.
If you follow all of these easy tips, you'll avoid wasting hundreds of gallons a day.
Progress
After years of work by NRDC and its partners, about 5,000 square miles of ocean—with massive canyons, majestic underwater mountains, and more than 1,000 species—have received permanent protection.
A huge California utility is closing the state’s last nuclear reactors—proving to the rest of the country that we can transition to clean energy.
By working with the U.S. Department of Defense, NRDC is mapping the way for renewable energy production near military bases in the West.