Hydrogen fluoride (HF) is an extremely hazardous chemical that can dissolve skin, muscle, and bone, and kill or permanently disable people who inhale or touch it. HF is still used by more than 40 oil refineries across the United States, despite there being safer alternatives. This needlessly puts 19 million people in danger of getting caught in deadly vapor clouds that can form and travel for miles when HF is released into the air.

NRDC filed a petition with the EPA to stop the use of HF in oil refineries. But the agency denied our petition, refusing to protect the public from this deadly chemical — so we’re taking them to court.

To help build our case, we need YOU to let the EPA know you want HF out of our communities. Send a letter now.

Thanks to NRDC supporters like you, plans to build two industrial-scale wood pellet plants in California have been canceled. This historic victory reflects increasingly widespread recognition that the biomass industry is a bad bet for our forests and our communities.

The company behind the project, Golden State Natural Resources (GSNR), cited the 50,000 comments they received in opposition to the project — more than 37,000 of which were sent by NRDC activists — as a key factor in their decision. Our voices were heard — and heeded.

But the fight’s not over. GSNR will go back to the drawing board and return with a revised proposal for public comment. You can be sure we will be calling on NRDC supporters to again mobilize in full force against industrial threats to our forests, climate, and communities.

A U.S. district court judge has lifted the Trump administration’s unlawful freeze of billions of dollars in federal funding to build electric vehicle charging stations along major highways nationwide and restored $1 billion in funds for 14 states while the case proceeds. The victory comes after NRDC and our partners moved to join a lawsuit by states to challenge the administration’s illegal freeze. Read more >

• Groups Challenge the Trump Administration’s Illegal Eddystone Plant Extension: NRDC led other environmental groups in challenging the Trump administration’s illegal order requiring Pennsylvania’s Eddystone power plant to stay operational past its planned closing on May 31. Read more >
• NRDC Sues the EPA for Failing to Control Toxic Pesticides in our Food: Along with several environmental and farmworker groups, NRDC sued the EPA for delaying a long overdue decision to ban dangerous organophosphate pesticides that have been linked to countless farmworker poisonings and other health harms. Read more >
• NRDC Sues to Force Coal Plants to Abide by Air Pollution Limits: NRDC and our partners are suing to block the Trump administration’s illegal exemption of nearly 70 coal plants from complying with air pollution standards that supporters like you helped get adopted last year. Read more >
• NRDC and Allies the Resist Trump Administration’s Illegal Campbell Plant Extension: NRDC and other environmental organizations asked the Department of Energy to reverse its illegal order requiring Michigan’s J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant to operate past its planned May 31 closure. Read more >
• Global Leaders Launch Coalition for a Quiet Ocean: Leaders from 37 countries gathered at the U.N. Ocean Conference last month and created the first global political coalition committed to reducing underwater noise pollution, a huge step to protect marine life. Read more >

Corporations claim that plastics can be recycled by burning them at high temperatures and turning them into fuel. But the people of Macon, Georgia knew they were wrong — they successfully made their voices heard opposing a so-called “chemical recycling” plant proposed by corporate waste giant Brightmark. It’s Plastic Free July — read more about the dangers of chemical recycling and how to protect your community >

• Protect Arctic Public Lands from the Administration’s Attacks: The Trump administration proposed stripping protections for 13 million acres of the nation’s largest intact landscape, opening it up to dirty drilling. Send a message of opposition by the Aug. 4 deadline >
• Defend Lifesaving Limits on Power Plant Pollution: Tell the administration you oppose their plans to repeal critical standards for power plants and toxic air pollution that NRDC supporters like you worked hard to secure last year. Take action >
• Tell the EPA: Protect Bees from Toxic Pesticides: We rely on pollinators for our food supply, so we must ban bee-killing toxic pesticides like neonics. Send a message >

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