Climate Change & Energy
Reports
- 12/10 NRDC Comments on NYS Sea Level Rise (PDF)
- 07/10 New York: 2010 Smarter City
- 08/09 Fighting Oil Addiction: Ranking States' Oil Vulnerability and Solutions for Change
Fact Sheets
- 03/10 Simple and Inexpensive Actions Could Reduce Global Warming Emissions by One Billion Tons
- 02/09 Five Simple Steps for Saving Money, Energy, and the Environment: A Guide for Apartment Dwellers
- 02/09 Five Simple Steps for Saving Money, Energy, and the Environment: A Guide for Building Owners and Managers
- 01/09 Kick-Starting Building Efficiency: A Policy Workplan for Maximizing the Economic Benefits of Energy Efficiency in Buildings
- 12/08 Unlocking the Power of Energy Efficiency in Buildings (PDF)
- 05/08 Global Warming and Our Health: Addressing the Most Serious Health Impacts of Climate Change
- 04/08 Preparing for Global Warming: A Framework for Protecting Community Health and the Environment in a Warmer World
Articles
- 10/09 OnEarth Magazine: 911 Response to Climate Change in New York State: ClimAID
- 06/07 OnEarth Magazine: Falling in Love with Wind
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- Green Power NYC
- Greening Adviser: Energy Efficiency Improvements
Recycling & Waste
Reports
- 05/08 Analysis of New York City Department of Sanitation Curbside Recycling and Refuse Costs
- 04/04 Recycling Returns: Ten Reforms for Making New York City's Recycling Program More Cost-Effective
- 02/97 Too Good to Throw Away: Recycling's Proven Record
Fact Sheets
- 02/08 Legislative Fact Sheet: What You Need to Know about E-Waste (PDF)
- 02/08 The Facts: Recycling Electronics (PDF)
Video
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Drinking Water, Waterways & Oceans
Reports
- 08/10 Testing the Waters
- 02/10 Protecting the Great Lakes: Keeping ballast water pollution out of New York
- 05/06 Rooftops to Rivers: Green Strategies for Controlling Stormwater and Combined Sewer Overflows
- 06/03 What's on Tap? Grading Drinking Water in U.S. Cities
- 12/02 Cape May to Montauk: A Coastal Protection Report Card
- 05/99 Stormwater Strategies: Community Responses to Runoff Pollution
- 02/99 New York's Kensico and West Branch Reservoirs Confront Intensified Development
Fact Sheets
- 08/10 Tides of Trouble: Increased Threats to Human Health and Ecosystems from Harmful Algal Blooms
- 01/10 Dosed Without Prescription: Preventing Pharmaceutical Contamination of Our Nation's Drinking Water
- 08/09 Water Saving Solutions: Stopping Pollution at its Source with Low Impact Development
- 06/07 Saving Jamaica Bay
- 12/06 New York State's Strained Ocean Resources
Video
Articles
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- Historic Hudson River Cleanup to Begin After Years of Delay, But Will General Electric Finish the Job?
- Nature along New York and New Jersey's Atlantic Coastlines
- Urban Stormwater Solutions
- Whale Songs in the City
Transportation & Air Quality
Reports
- 03/04 Harboring Pollution: The Dirty Truth About U.S. Ports
- 12/07 Driving on Fumes: Truck Drivers Face Elevated Health Risks from Diesel Pollution
- 08/06 MTA New York City Transit Bus Fleet Emissions, 1995 to 2006
- End of the Line for Dirty Diesels: Why New York City Needs Natural Gas Buses By Renee Skelton and Richard A. Kassel. September 1993. (Photocopy only: 18 pp., $6.50) Purchase
- Needless Noise: The Negative Impacts of Helicopter Traffic in New York City and the Tri-State Region By Carolyn Cunningham. December 1999. (Photocopy only: 68 pp., $5.00) Purchase
- 05/96 Breath-taking: Premature Mortality Due to Particulate Air Pollution in 239 American Cities; New York State; New York-New Jersy Metro
Fact Sheets
- 01/10 Reducing Foreclosures and Environmental Impacts through Location-Efficient Neighborhood Design (PDF)
- 09/09 Moving Cooler: Securing America's Energy Future
- 05/09 Checklist for Cars: Today's 'To Do' List to Put America on the Road to Clean Transportation
- 10/08 Building the Wheels of the Clean Energy Economy: Public Transportation for the 21st Century
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- Dump Dirty Diesel: Ridding the world of the smoke, smells and health risks of diesel exhaust
- LEED for Neighborhood Development
- Reducing the Miles We Drive
- Picturing Smart Growth
- Smarter Cities
Environmental Justice & Green Jobs
Fact Sheets
- 05/08 Job Opportunities in a Green Economy: New York Can Gain from Fighting Global Warming (PDF)
- 06/09 New York City: Green Prosperity and Poverty Reduction (PDF)
Video
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- Environmental Justice
- History: The Environmental Justice Movement
- Partnerships for Change
- You Can Beat City Hall - Community Action Tips
- South Bronx Win: Settlement Reached in Case Against Sewage Odors
Special Places & Open Space
Reports
- 09/10 NRDC Comments on the Hydraulic Fracturing Study to be Undertaken by the Environmental Protection Agency
- 11/09 NRDC Testimony: NYS Hearing on Draft Study on Natural Gas Drilling in the Marcellus Shale (PDF)
- 12/09 NRDC Comments on New York State's Draft Study on Natural Gas Hydrofracking in the Marcellus Shale
- Digging Up the Details: A Comparison of Proposed New York State Superfund and Brownfields Legislation By Amanda Gonzalez and Mark A. Izeman. March 2000. (Photocopy only: 64 pp., $5.00) Purchase
Fact Sheets
- 10/09 Protecting New Yorkers' Health and the Environment by Regulating Drilling in the Marcellus Shale
Articles
- 04/10 OnEarth Magazine: New York Puts Brakes on Drilling in NYC Watershed, Clears Way for Upstate Wells by Next Spring
- 11/09 OnEarth Magazine: Join the Campaign to “Kill the Drill” and Keep NYC's Drinking Water Free of Toxic Chemicals
- 07/10 This Green Life: Saving an Urban Wild Land
- 10/09 OnEarth Magazine: Will the Pursuit of Natural Gas Endanger New York's Drinking Water?
- 03/07 Firsthand: Catskills, Firsthand
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