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- Get the Lead Out
Guide - Children across the nation face the risk of lead poisoning, but steps can be taken to protect them.
Documents Tagged power plants in All Sections
- Scaling Up Energy Efficiency
Saving Money, Creating Jobs, and Slashing Emissions
Issue Brief - Energy efficiency is a proven resource with significant potential to dramatically reduce power plant emissions and to do so at low cost. Power plants represent 40 percent of the nation's total climate-changing pollution.
- Using the Clean Air Act to Sharply Reduce Carbon Pollution from Existing Power Plants
Issue Paper - Climate and energy experts at NRDC have crafted a groundbreaking proposal that will help the Administration create jobs, grow the economy, and curb climate change by going after the country's largest source of climate-changing pollution: emissions from hundreds of existing power plants.
- Toxic Power: How Power Plants Contaminate Our Air and States
Presentation - The EPA recently finalized the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS), requiring significant reductions in mercury and air toxic emissions, inlcuding those from the electric sector, the largest industrial source of toxic air pollution in the United States. Despite the significant benefit to public health, power companies and some in Congress continue to fight against the standards.
- Comments Filed On The Carbon Pollution Standard, June 25, 2012
NRDC Comments filed on the Carbon Pollution Standard on Monday, June 25, 2012.
Comments - NRDC Comments filed on the Carbon Pollution Standard on Monday, June 25, 2012.
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