Marines pass food supplies to a family affected by flooding from Hurricane Harvey in Orange, Texas. Credit:U.S. Marine Corps.
States facing the greatest health damage from climate change are the least equipped to protect their residents. Across the United States, climate change is intensifying extreme weather events, resulting in escalating public health harms and severe economic damage. For example, devastating inland flooding in Texas in 2025 killed 134 people … [continued]
This analysis of eight residential programs shows that, if properly implemented, cities can use a new organics collection program to build a more efficient, resilient, and sustainable solid waste system. Coauthored with Raftelis Residential curbside organics collection is expanding across the United States as states and local governments seek to … [continued]
Learn how the rapid growth of data centers is affecting electricity bills, public health, communities, and the environment and what can be done about it. Data centers, the physical infrastructure powering the rapid growth of artificial intelligence and our increasingly digital lives, are expanding at an unprecedented pace and scale … [continued]
This report lays out key adaptive management principles and recommendations for regulators. Despite current headwinds from the Trump administration, offshore wind energy is essential for transitioning away from harmful fossil fuels to a clean energy economy. Offshore wind could provide more than three times the electricity required to power the … [continued]
This research brief highlights lessons from Nevada’s workplace heat standard. Coauthored with Barrak Alahmad and Yazan Alwadi, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Most U.S. states lack formal workplace standards for dangerous heat. This long-standing gap puts millions of working people at risk every year, especially as climate change … [continued]
NRDC is pushing to expand clean energy development in ways that strengthen communities, protect nature, and deliver lasting economic benefits. America needs to build clean energy faster—and build it right. Meeting the climate challenge means roughly quadrupling U.S. clean electricity generation and transmission capacity by 2040 while electrifying vehicles, buildings, … [continued]
Since the Trump administration took office in January 2025, it has taken or proposed at least 580 actions that directly threaten the environment, climate, and human health. NRDC is tracking the mounting hazard and harm. As soon as the second Trump administration took office in January 2025, we witnessed an … [continued]
Under Trump, Americans could face an extraordinary increase in exposure to cancer-causing toxics and radiation. Over the nearly two years of President Donald Trump’s second term, his administration has taken more than 500 actions that harm public health or the environment. When faced with this onslaught of harm, it can … [continued]
The Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 (BAAJA) is the result of years of negotiations on permitting reform. The product is a bill that combines critically important transmission and grid reforms with significant and concerning changes to federal environmental laws, permitting standards, and judicial remedies. The transmission provisions … [continued]
A new report models emissions from different on-site methane generation power scenarios to show potential impacts on the people of Utah and residents of multiple downwind states. Canadian businessman and television personality “Mr. Wonderful” (aka Kevin O’Leary) and his businesses have proposed the Stratos data center in Box Elder County, … [continued]
