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- Cost-effective Pollution Prevention in an Industrial Setting
An unlikely partnership between environmentalists and Dow Chemical achieves major pollution reductions.
News - An unlikely partnership between environmentalists and Dow Chemical achieves major pollution reductions.
- Environmentalists and Dow: Chemical Reduction
Interview - Between 1996 and early 1999, NRDC worked on a groundbreaking project with a truly unlikely partner: Dow Chemical. The project tested the idea of pollution prevention -- improving the manufacturing process to stop pollution before it's created -- at one of the largest chemical manufacturing plants in the United States. What was it like for an environmentalist to work with Dow Chemical? NRDC scientist Linda Greer, who headed the project for NRDC, tells all.
Documents Tagged interviews in All Sections
- An Interview with Elizabeth Kolbert
Interview - New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert speaks with NRDC's Phil Gutis about storytelling's role in solving global warming.
- The EPA’s Pesticide-Protection Failure
Opinion - Linda Greer, the director of NRDC’s public health program, discusses the failure of the federal government to implement the Food Quality Protection Act, a groundbreaking 1996 law recognizing that children are particularly vulnerable to the ill-effects of pesticides.
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Recent Water Posts
- How Pollution and Climate Change Threaten Our Beaches
- posted by Ben Chou, 6/26/13
- "Testing the Waters" for Bacteria That Can Make You Sick
- posted by Becky Hammer, 6/26/13
- NRDC Report: Cleaning Up America's Beaches Requires Leadership on Polluted Runoff
- posted by Jon Devine, 6/26/13
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