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Getting the Lead Out: Removing Lead Pipes Would Yield Hundreds of Billions of Dollars in Health Benefits

Issue BriefUnited StatesErik D. Olson
Removing lead service lines could save the United States an estimated $786 billion from avoided health impacts over the next 35 years.
Bits of plastic waste float underwater

The Worst of the Worst: High-Priority Plastic Materials, Chemical Additives, and Products to Phase Out

Fact SheetUnited States, InternationalDr. Veena Singla
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Building Batteries Better: Doing the Best With Less

ReportUnited StatesJordan Brinn
Reducing the amount of mining needed through improvements in battery technology, second-life applications for vehicle batteries, and better recycling is key to reducing harms caused from battery supply chains.

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The EPA’s Power Plant Carbon Rules Can Be Built to Last

Issue BriefUnited StatesLissa Lynch, David Doniger

The EPA has a firm legal basis for strong power sector standards that will accelerate the sector’s ongoing reduction of carbon pollution and help meet the urgent threat of climate change

Letter in Support of the MOVE Culver City Initiative (PDF)

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Letter submitted to the Culver City Council expressing support for the MOVE Culver City initiative, and raising concerns about a potential decision to remove dedicated bus and bike lanes and to expand vehicular capacity on principle arterial highways through Culver...

NRDC Comments on the NYNJHAT Study - Comments (PDF)

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NRDC's public comments on the New York-New Jersey Harbor and Tributaries Coastal Storm Risk Management Draft Integrated Feasibility Study and Tier 1 Environmental Impact Assessment in which the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers seeks to develop a plan to protect...

Siting Renewable Energy in Oregon - Report (PDF)

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Report from the Oregon Smart Siting Collaboration (OSSC), a partnership of Defenders of Wildlife, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Oregon Natural Desert Association and Renewable Northwest, providing guidance to renewable energy developers, communities, advocacy organizations and others to help make...

Letter to EPA Regarding New Approach Methods for Chemical Testing (PDF)

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Letter submitted to EPA Administrator Michael Regan from 38 environmental, health, and justice organizations. The letter asks for a meeting with EPA leadership to convey shared concern regarding EPA’s efforts to prematurely reduce or eliminate whole rodent testing of chemicals...

NRDC Comments on EPA’s Draft White Paper "Availability of New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) in the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP)" (PDF)

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Comments to EPA submitted on behalf of NRDC and the 35 groups and individuals which include: farmworker advocates; environmental justice leaders; fenceline community representatives; health professionals; environmental health groups; grassroots activists; lawyers; scientists; and technical experts. The comments conclude that...

Complaint Against Alabama under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

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The Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice and the Natural Resources Defense Council submitted this complaint against the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) and the State of Alabama for violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of...