The Filibuster Rule is Broken: It’s Time to Fix It
The Senate filibuster rule is broken. It’s time to fix it through reforms that encourage bipartisanship without enabling a petulant and self-serving minority t…
NRDC Action Fund and IBEW Team Up to Urge Support for Issue 1 in Columbus, Ohio
Written jointly by: Dan Sawmiller, Senior Advisor for NRDC Action Fund Ed Moore, Business Manager and Financial Secretary for IBEW Local 683 For too long we’ve…
Michigan’s Future is on the Ballot
Not since the Great Recession have the stakes been higher for Michigan families and autoworkers. The state has an incredible legacy with a highly skilled workf…
A Biden Presidency Could Help Lead the World to Greater Climate Action
On November 4, President Trump will formally withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement. That short-sighted move could be a short-term departure from …
Trump Repeals Decades-Old and Very Effective Air Pollution Rule
The “once in, always in” policy has prevented 1.7 million tons of hazardous emissions from entering the country’s air. The U.S. Environmental Protection …
NRDC Action Fund Endorses These Candidates in the 2022 Elections
Tackling the climate, environmental justice, and economic crises facing the country is essential to our future—and these are just the right people to do it. Ju…
Vote YES on Fair Tax Reform in Illinois!
The “Fair Tax” is on the Illinois ballot this November. If approved, it would transition the state away from a regressive, flat state income tax and towards a …
Trump Thinks Eliminating Environmental Regulation Will Stimulate Recovery. He’s 100 Percent Wrong.
The evidence shows that environmental protection is a boon to the economy. President Trump has signed an executive order encouraging agencies to all but ignore…
Trump’s Atomically Misguided Giveaway to the Dangerous Uranium Mining Industry
The White House is using the COVID-19 pandemic as a reason to propose relaxing environmental safeguards on uranium mining, which could open a mine near the Gra…
In 2020, Winning is Everything
In a speech today in Pittsburgh, President Trump doubled down on his all-fossil-fuel energy agenda–ignoring the scientific community, the business commun…
Climate Deniers Warn GOP Lawmakers: Stay Loyal
“I don’t lose any sleep over it.” Those were the words Interior Secretary David Bernhardt used at a House hearing on May 15 to describe his level of concern ab…
Trump Backs Down on Offshore Drilling
WASHINGTON (April 25, 2019) – Interior Secretary David Bernhardt today told the Wall Street Journal that the Trump administration’s plans to open up nearly all…
Week 35: Trump Throws His Weight Behind the Valley Lateral Pipeline
FERC gets federalism wrong, Zinke gets monuments wrong, and Pruitt gets babysat. 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . . Pipeline! The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission—und…
Week 21: The Corporate Takeover of Our National Parks
Welcome to Best Buy’s Yosemite Hiking Center? Glacier National Park, brought to you by Aquafina, and Shenandoah-Verizon, can you hear it now? All Ears U.S. Dep…
Polis, Hickenlooper, Neguse Join Labor, Climate Advocates: Fund CO Transit, Rail, EVs
DENVER (September 1, 2021) —  Governor Jared Polis, Senator John Hickenlooper, and Representative Joe Neguse joined Colorado labor and climate leaders at Union…
NRDC Action Fund Opposes Recall Campaign Against California Gov. Gavin Newsom
Progress and success are not always linear, and no administration is perfect, but Governor Gavin Newsom has found a way to continue California’s environmental …
Week 140: Trump Ignored Climate Change’s Role in the Migration of Guatemalans—and Then Cut Off Aid
Plus, the BLM’s new location will be next door to Big Oil, and it just issued a hilarious new bit of climate change denial (something about Vikings and grapes)…
Week 137: Trump’s Light Bulb Rollback Takes Us Back to the 19th Century
Plus, the EPA wants kudos for complying with a legal settlement, and another Trump official flees into the arms of an oil company. Not So Bright Back when Geor…
Week 134: Trump Will Save Endangered Species Only When It’s Cheap
Plus, Bernhardt tries to sink offshore wind, and our first-term president takes credit for building a plastics factory that was announced seven years ago. Enda…
Week 132: America First! (with the United Arab Emirates’ Permission)
Plus, Andrew Wheeler holds story hour at an oil refinery, and the new Bureau of Land Management director doesn’t believe the B should be M-ing L. America First…