NRDC activists submitted over 25,000 public comments to support a Biden-era proposal to protect monarch butterflies and their habitat. Now the current administration has reopened the comment period, likely to allow more time for our opponents to submit comments that aim to undermine protections for monarchs — and we need you to make your voice heard again.

Monarchs have long been threatened by habitat loss, climate change, and pesticides like glyphosate and neonics — the same culprits responsible for the alarming declines of bees and other pollinators and threatening our food supply and our health. They need our help now.

Help show the Trump administration that there’s overwhelming public support for protecting monarchs: Submit your public comment by the May 19 deadline.

New research from the Campaign for Healthier Solutions (CHS) in partnership with NRDC found that some children’s products sold at stores like Dollar General and Dollar Tree contain dangerous chemicals linked to cancer, reproductive harm, and learning disabilities.

The report, titled "Product Testing for the People" and fittingly published the week of Mother's Day, emphasized that children and pregnant people are at particularly high risk from these everyday products: researchers found baby lotion containing a formaldehyde-releasing chemical, toys with PVC, and candy pails with lead.

In general, dollar stores predominantly serve communities of color and low-income communities that are already disproportionately exposed to chemical hazards and health effects linked to chemical exposures.

NRDC is partnering with CHS to get toxic products off dollar store shelves — and you can help. Tell dollar store executives: stop selling toxic products and protect children from harm.

In a brief filed in federal court by NRDC and other nonprofit groups, we stand with the law firm Perkins Coie and against President Trump’s illegal efforts to stifle First Amendment rights. Perkins Coie, like every one of us, has a constitutional right to challenge any administration, free from fear of governmental retribution. At NRDC, we sue presidents and administrations of both parties if they violate laws that protect our environment and health. Read more >

• Judge Restores Funds to Lower Energy Costs: A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction that the EPA must restart funding to finance clean energy projects under the $20 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. Read more >
• New Report Reveals Massive Loss of Wetland Protections After Supreme Court’s Sackett Decision: NRDC analysis confirms that the Supreme Court has gutted the Clean Water Act’s ability to protect U.S. wetlands, exposing us to more flooding, worsening water pollution, and threatening habitats. Read more >
• 127 Groups Tell Congress to Defend Vehicle Standards: Wide-ranging organizations united in a new letter sent to Congress to reject measures that would undermine standards California put in place to curb pollution from cars and trucks. Read more >

Though NRDC’s Matthew Tejada acknowledges that “how much devastation we'll have to recover from, how much destruction we're going to have to rebuild from, is yet to be seen,” he is adamant that “we will recover. We will rebuild. It will be better.” Even as the administration seems set on giving polluters a free pass, Tejada — NRDC’s senior vice president for environmental health who also spent over a decade as the head of the EPA’s environmental justice office — says the environmental justice wins achieved in recent years motivate him and fellow advocates to keep up the fight. Read more >

• Our Public Lands and Waters Aren’t for Corporate Polluters: We’re facing major threats to our public lands and waters from the Trump administration. Tell the administration we won’t stop fighting to protect wildlands. Take action >
• Save Our Forests: Urge Congress to protect federal forests from Trump’s executive orders to expedite rampant logging. Send a message >
• Save a Marine Sanctuary from Destruction: A dangerous new liquefied natural gas project would turn the irreplaceable Gulf of California into a gas station. Write a message of opposition to the project’s backer J.P. Morgan. Take action >
• Tell Congress: Save EPA Protections Now: Urge your members of Congress to defend strong EPA protections and the essential staff that work every day for a healthy environment for all. Send a message >

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