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14 Mar 2012, 5:30 pm by Claire Mitchell
For several months, the FDA delayed responding to the NRDC’s petition. [read post]
1 Mar 2012, 11:14 am by Prof. Coplan, Karl S.
  The DC Circuit (yes, the very same court) struck that argument down in NRDC v Costle, holding that EPA lacked authority under the Clean Water Act to amend the clear scope of the statutory permitting requirement by regulation. [read post]
29 Feb 2012, 10:06 am by Jonathan H. Adler
NRDC, but today is such a day. [read post]
23 Feb 2012, 4:30 am by David Doniger
  A partial list of the petitioners speaks volumes:  Coal companies and trade associations, including the National Mining Association, Peabody Energy, and Arch Coal (new owner of the former Massey Energy) Coal-burning utilities, including Southern Company and American Electric Power operating through their litigation arm, the Utility Air Regulatory Group Oil companies, through the American Petroleum Institute, the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers, and the Western States… [read post]
21 Feb 2012, 1:31 pm by WIMS
The groups included: Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC); Great Lakes United; Alliance for the Great Lakes; National Wildlife Federation; and Northwest Environmental Advocates. [read post]
6 Feb 2012, 11:58 am by Frank O'Donnell, Clean Air Watch
See at http://www.4cleanair.org/documents/NACAATier3VehandFuelReport-EMBARGOED-Oct2011.pdfsOur friend, Rich Kassel of NRDC, explained the oil industry’s bogus assertion in this excellent blog post http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/rkassel/epa_oil_industry_assumptions_a.htmlReducing the sulfur content of gasoline would make every catalytic converter on the road today more effective. [read post]
3 Feb 2012, 5:00 am by David Doniger
  As NRDC’s Henry Henderson explains, First Energy sought to blame the 2012 closures on EPA’s new mercury standards – even though it wouldn’t have to meet those standards until 2015, and even though it had idled some of those units more than a year ago. [read post]
1 Feb 2012, 1:22 pm by WIMS
"     Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) President Frances Beinecke issued a statement on the House bill saying, "The Republican leadership has the temerity to call this horrible package a jobs bill, but it's actually a measure that will make it impossible to pass a transportation bill -- the one true jobs bill Congress co [read post]
1 Feb 2012, 11:42 am by Prof. Coplan, Karl S.
Full disclosure: my Environmental Litigation Clinic clients include several of the plaintiffs in the NRDC v DEC cases, and I serve as chair of the board of Waterkeeper Alliance, also a plaintiff. [read post]
24 Jan 2012, 1:19 pm by SteinMcewen, LLP
NRDC), in the context of injunctive remedy, regularly pushing courts back into the four corners of the traditional equitable test. [read post]
23 Jan 2012, 1:23 pm by WIMS
Jan 18: The Department of State (DOS) recommended to President Obama that the presidential permit for the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline [See WIMS 1/6/12] be denied and, that at this time, "the TransCanada Keystone XL Pipeline be determined not to serve the national interest. [read post]
19 Jan 2012, 9:47 am by Audrey Huang
  Several environmental groups, including the NRDC have spoken out against the plan arguing that it could hinder the government's protection of the oceans and undermine the agency's independence. [read post]
17 Jan 2012, 1:59 am
"The most recent concerns about the safety of Gulf seafood stem from a Natural Resources Defense Council study that questioned FDA's threshold for PAHs.In an article published in Environmental Health Perspectives in October, NRDC researchers reported that FDA's methods for setting safety levels for Gulf seafood "significantly underestimate the risk from seafood contaminants. [read post]
15 Dec 2011, 3:54 am by Sean Wajert
NRDC didn't want to wait for the science, taking the usual pro-plaintiff, anti-industry position that all gaps in knowledge should be filled in with worst-case scenarios. [read post]
12 Dec 2011, 12:47 pm by WIMS
    The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) International Climate Policy Director Jake Schmidt issued a statement saying: "The United States saw an opportunity to break down the wall blocking adoption of binding commitments by the largest emitting developing countries and took advantage of that. [read post]