The Trump administration is trying to gut protections for iconic marine national monuments and open them to industrial fishing, supposedly to boost the U.S. seafood industry.

Except what keeps fish populations healthy and marine wildlife habitat protected? Maintaining ocean protections.

NRDC’s legal team is considering all of our options to keep our marine national monuments protected, including going to court. In the meantime, the administration is seeking public comments on its seafood policy until October 14 — and we need YOU to create a groundswell of opposition against opening our shared waters to commercial fishing.

Add your voice to help us keep marine national monuments protected. Submit your comment right away.

U.S. energy company Mexico Pacific’s proposal to export climate-busting liquefied natural gas (LNG) through Mexico’s irreplaceable Gulf of California would be devastating for marine wildlife and the planet — but a new NRDC analysis found that the $15 billion project is also a high-risk gamble for investors’ wallets.

The report details how this dirty energy project would saddle investors with stranded assets, destabilize communities, and irreparably damage a World Heritage Site that is home to nearly 40 percent of the world’s marine mammal species — while emitting 5.7 million metric tons of carbon dioxide each year.

Mexico Pacific’s original seven-year permit is expiring, and the company is asking the Department of Energy for an extension of seven more years. Now is the time for us to act.

Help show Mexico Pacific that we are united in protecting the pristine Gulf of California from dirty energy — and urge the company to reverse course.

NRDC and other environmental organizations sued the EPA for illegally refusing to issue long-overdue rules to limit hazardous substances discharged into our waterways. Across the United States, more than 100,000 facilities make, store, or use hundreds of hazardous chemicals linked to reproductive, developmental, and neurological harm. Read more >

• More Than 100,000 NRDC Supporters Submitted Public Comments Defending Lifesaving Clean Energy Standards: NRDC members and activists spoke out in opposition to a slew of dangerous clean energy rollbacks proposed by the administration, including rescinding the determination that climate change poses a threat to health and welfare, removing all carbon pollution standards for cars and trucks, and weakening or eliminating limits on carbon and toxic air pollution from power plants. Read more >
• Challenge to the Latest Illegal Extension of J.H. Campbell Coal Plant: Public interest groups, including NRDC, challenged the Department of Energy’s second illegal emergency order forcing the aging, dirty coal-fired power plant in Michigan to continue burning coal even though the electricity it produced is no longer needed and already replaced by cleaner, cheaper sources we’ve championed for years. Read more >
• High Seas Treaty Achieves 60 Ratifications, Marking a New Era for the Ocean: After decades of advocacy driven by NRDC and its partner organizations, more than 60 countries have now ratified the High Seas Treaty, the threshold for becoming international law. The global treaty grants the international community the power for the first time in history to comprehensively create marine protected areas and strengthen management of destructive industrial activities across almost two-thirds of the ocean that lies beyond national borders. Read more >

Celebrating Robert Redford for 50 Years of Service to the Environment

For decades, Robert Redford used his influence as a Hollywood superstar to speak truth to power and advance environmental progress. Read NRDC President Manish Bapna’s reflections on Redford’s impact as an environmentalist and NRDC trustee for nearly 50 years, from his tireless work defending the American West to beating back destructive oil and gas drilling in iconic wild places like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Redford passed away last month, but his legacy endures — both in all he’s achieved and in the example he set by standing up for his belief in leaving our children a livable world. Read more >

• Protect Marine Mammals from Unprecedented Congressional Attacks: In another attempt to pave the way for corporations to get richer, anti-environmental members of Congress want to gut life-saving marine mammal protections and research. Urge Congress to protect ocean life >
• Protect Our Forests: Tell the Trump administration to reverse their plans to open nearly 50 million acres of national forests to disastrous logging and road building. Make your voice heard >
• 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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