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We've taken the Trump administration to court 29 times since last
January – and we're ready for the challenges ahead
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Dear NRDC Supporter,

As we head into 2026, I've been reflecting on a year of
major challenges — and on the strength of this community. With
over 3 million members and over 750 staff lawyers, scientists,
and other experts, NRDC is working to stop the Trump
administration's most harmful rollbacks to laws protecting
endangered species, our climate, wildlands, our health, and the
environment.

NRDC's legal team is at the vanguard of our strategy. In
fact, we've taken the Trump administration to court 29 times
since last January — roughly once every two weeks. Get a full
rundown of our top litigation fights at NRDC.org. ( [link removed] )

Despite the odds, and with your support, we made real and
meaningful progress in 2025, in and out of court. Here are a few
examples:

* Our Make Polluters Pay campaign helped pass landmark
legislation in New York and Vermont to hold fossil fuel companies
financially responsible for the damages caused by their climate
pollution — shifting the burden off local communities. And we're
fighting for similar laws in a dozen other states.
* Clean drinking water was finally secured for residents of
Flint, MI, where the final lead water pipe was replaced after a
decade of legal battles and public pressure from NRDC and our
allies.
* After nearly two decades of advocacy by NRDC and our allies,
the U.N. High Seas Treaty was ratified — the first-ever
international treaty safeguarding oceans that lie beyond national
borders. This critical treaty will bring order and conservation
to what has — up to now — been an ocean of mismanagement and
neglect.
* We sued, and won, to stop the Trump administration's climate
censorship — forcing the administration to resume providing
critical climate data to farmers and researchers on the USDA
website.
* Faced with overwhelming public opposition — including from more
than 37,000 NRDC supporters who wrote letters of opposition —
backers of a plan to bring the forest-destroying biomass industry
to California abandoned the project.
* NRDC members like you submitted hundreds of thousands of
official public comments opposing destructive Trump
administration rollbacks to landmark environmental laws like the
Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act, and Clean Air Act. Your
public comments are critical to NRDC's litigation strategy, often
giving us legal standing to go to court.

Looking ahead, the Trump administration's attacks on our
environment are accelerating. These attacks are having real
consequences for us right now, but they also have devastating
impacts on what is held in trust for future generations.

However, NRDC is responding with full force — through
hard-hitting litigation, relentless advocacy at every level of
government, and expanded international work. Key fights in 2026
include:

* Defending Climate Action In Court: The Trump administration is
promising to repeal the Endangerment Finding, the scientific
determination that climate-warming pollution threatens our health
and our planet. If this repeal goes forward, the federal
government would be stripped of its mandate to curb carbon
pollution from cars, power plants, and major industries. NRDC is
preparing to sue to protect the Endangerment Finding — bolstered
by the official public comments of over 56,000 NRDC supporters
united in opposition of this rollback.
* Defending the Arctic from New Oil and Gas Drilling: NRDC is
girding for accelerated fights in and out of court to stop oil
giant ConocoPhillips from expanding its disastrous Willow oil
drilling project into more protected lands in the Western Arctic,
and to block fresh efforts to auction off the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas companies.
* Taking on the Microplastics Crisis: NRDC is spearheading new
initiatives to tackle the worsening health crisis caused by the
microplastic pollution that is permeating our planet and our
bodies. From awareness to action, NRDC is ready to raise the
alarm on a disaster being made worse by the oil and gas
industry's unfettered production of this toxic mess.
* Blocking New Offshore Drilling: We are committed to stopping
the Trump administration's new 5-year offshore drilling plan
which would give the fossil fuel industry another gift by opening
up previously off-limits zones along California's coast and in
the remote Arctic Sea, threatening coastal communities, marine
life and our clean energy future.
* Protecting 58 million acres of Forests from Destruction: NRDC
is gearing up to derail the Trump administration's attempts to
open millions of acres of national forests to road building and
logging, threatening old growth trees, endangered wildlife, clean
water, and wildlands and open space. Legal action is likely and
our lawyers stand ready.
* Defending Clean Energy's Advances: Clean energy is the economic
play of our generation. The U.S. retreat is only creating a void
that other nations are filling. Meanwhile, the Trump
administration is doing everything it can to kill clean energy
progress in the U.S. It's trying to scrap the expansion of EVs
and the solar, battery, and wind power industries, pausing many
projects which were fully-permitted — some nearly complete.
Meanwhile, the administration is doling out cash to prop up the
coal industry and force communities to keep old, dirty and
obsolete "zombie" coal and gas plants despite local opposition
and rising costs.
* Protecting the ‘Aquarium of the World': NRDC is escalating its
campaign to protect Mexico's Gulf of California — a UNESCO World
Heritage site — from plans by international oil and gas companies
and major investment banks to build massive new gas export
facilities. Not only would these facilities deepen our climate
crisis and dependence on fossil fuels, but it would put rare blue
and fin whales, whale sharks, leatherback sea turtles, and
thousands of other marine species at risk, along with the Gulf's
many coastal communities.

Fighting back against the Trump administration is critical,
and we are fully in the fight. But the environmental movement
also needs a new playbook — one that pivots and adjusts to more
effectively defend what matters, build what's missing, bring in
new supporters, grow our power for the long term, and have a
greater, more durable impact. NRDC is already helping to shape
that future.

A core part of that work is building new things that make
life better, healthier, and more affordable for everyone, and
building them equitably and fairly. We must build more solar,
wind, energy storage, and transmission technologies. We must
build more affordable and energy-efficient housing and buildings.
We need more clean vehicles, public transit, and electric vehicle
charging infrastructure. And we need cleaner industries,
climate-smart agriculture, storm-hardened buildings, more room
for rivers to flood, and more space for wildlife to thrive.

These changes require fundamental reforms to how we make
and store energy, grow our food, design our cities, and manage
our natural and built surroundings. They are one vital piece of a
broader strategy for meeting this moment.

That work is happening here at NRDC — and it's accelerating
to meet the urgency of this moment.

Thank you for your resilience, support, and partnership in
2025. We have quite a year ahead, and in 2026 we must do all this
— and more — together.

Sincerely,

Manish Bapna

President, NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council)

The mission of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
is to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals,
and the natural systems on which all life depends.

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