NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) was founded in 1970 by a group of law students and attorneys at the forefront of the environmental movement. Today’s leadership team and board of trustees makes sure the organization continues to work to ensure the rights of all people to clean air, clean water, and healthy communities.
“I heard one message come through loud and clear at the United Nations Climate Summit in September: We can’t fight climate change without City Hall. That may be why the first dignitary to take the podium after U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the assembled world leaders was the mayor of New York City, who two days earlier had announced that his city would cut its carbon footprint 80 percent by 2050…”