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Don Bachelet, farm manager at the Northwest Michigan Horticulture Research Center–a test field of over 100 acres run by Michigan State University and funded by USDA grants and grower donations–helps harvest cherries in Traverse City, Michigan, on July 14, 2025.

A Weakened USDA Will Hurt Small Farmers (and Everyone Else)

Wind turbine foundation components at the Revolution Wind construction hub at the Port of Providence in Providence, Rhode Island, US, on Thursday, June 13, 2024. The 704-megawatt Orsted A/S Revolution Wind project will be the first commercial-scale offshore wind project for Rhode Island and Connecticut and the first multi-state offshore wind farm in the country.

The Trump Administration’s War Against Offshore Wind Will Hike Bills and Risk Blackouts

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The AI Boom Is Stressing the Grid—but It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way

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The Attacks on Science Continue—This Time at the USGS

A home surrounded by floodwaters near Kerville, Texas, July 5, 2025. Torrential rain fell in central Texas on Independence Day, causing widespread flash flooding across the region.

EPA's Climate Denial Puts Americans in Danger

NRDC founding Director and President John Adams (second from left) and actor and NRDC trustee Robert Redford (right) at a meeting with the Institute of Resource Management concerning outer continental shelf drilling in Morrow Bay, California, in 1982.

Remembering Robert Redford

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Our Public Lands Are on the Chopping Block Again

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“Forever Chemicals” Called PFAS Show Up in Your Food, Clothes, and Home

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The Public Lands Rule Falls Victim to the Dirty Energy Agenda

Mount Shasta in Shasta-Trinity National Forest in northern California on June 9, 2025. Shasta-Trinity is the largest national forest in the state.

A Mammoth Biomass Project Withers in California 

A cooling center in Sacramento, California, on Wednesday, July 3, 2024. California's biggest power utility had warned of potential outages as the state faces a period of high wildfire risk and power demand surges to keep air conditioners running, with forecasted daytime high temperatures in Sacramento remaining above 110F.

How to Make Your Community More Resilient to Climate Disasters

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245 million acres of public lands are at risk!

The Trump administration’s Interior Department is attempting to repeal the landmark Public Lands Rule, a move that opens these lands up to unchecked mining, logging, and oil and gas development. We must speak out against their plan—please submit a public comment NOW!

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Petition

Tell the FDA to protect us from microplastics

A recent study found that most people's brains contain a plastic spoon's worth of microplastics. Meanwhile, the plastic industry is on track to triple plastic production over the next 40 years. Tell the FDA to protect us from microplastics!

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Petition

Our seas aren’t gas stations

U.S. energy company Mexico Pacific has been trying to turn a marine sanctuary—home to nearly 40 percent of all marine mammal species—into a gas station and shipping channel for liquefied natural gas. Tell Mexico Pacific to reverse its plans to export dirty energy out of the Gulf of California.

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