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- Health Risks to Children and Communities From Recent EPA Proposals and Decisions on Air and Water Quality
Testimony - Testimony submitted to hearings before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, Senate on February 6, 2007.
- Toxic Communities: How EPA's IRIS Program Fails The Public
Testimony - Testimony of Linda Greer, PH.D Director, Health Program Natural Resources Defense Council before the U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight at hearing entitled: Toxic Communities: How EPA's IRIS Program Fails the Public.
- Boosting the Benefits
Improving Air Quality and Health by Reducing Global Warming Pollution in California
Issue Paper - California has the opportunity to combat global warming while simultaneously improving air quality and public health throughout the state. Measures being considered under the California Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32) could save hundreds of lives and prevent thousands of other negative health impacts each year -- saving billions of dollars in healthcare costs. NRDC analysis shows that strategies for reducing global warming pollution -- cleaner cars and trucks, energy efficiency, renewable energy and smart growth -- also reduce air pollution and bring tremendous short- and long-term health "co-benefits."
- 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.
Documents Tagged EPA in All Sections
- A Golden Opportunity: California’s Solutions for Global Warming
California's Solutions for Global Warming
Report - The landmark California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, also known as AB 32, is the most ambitious global warming solutions law in the nation. The state’s next step: putting in place the specific measures that will bring emissions levels back to 1990 levels by 2020 to meet AB 32’s limit. This June 2007 report describes how California is protecting the state from global warming pollution while growing its economy and encouraging the innovative clean technology industry.
- Global Warming on Trial
Opinion - NRDC and a coalition of states took the case for curbing global pollution to the Supreme Court.
- California Signs Landmark Global Warming Legislation
News - California makes history by becoming the first state in the nation to set concrete limits on statewide global warming pollution.
- EPA's Proposed Policy on Sewage Dumping During Wet Weather Conditions
Testimony - The proposed policy will worsen water quality, expose the public to greater risk of illness and death from waterborne pathogens and toxic chemicals, and adversely affect the economy.
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