Data, Reports & Resources

PFAS microplastics are forever.

This model policy language helps states advance food waste reduction in K–12 public schools.

Addressing transmission network upgrades can increase clean energy supply in Illinois and Virginia.

Roughly half of all Americans are exposed to neurotoxic neonic pesticides on any given day, and children are especially at risk.

State and local decision-makers can play a key role in ensuring that the rapid expansion of data center development reflects local priorities and community needs. 

NRDC is leading efforts to pass ambitious, enforceable food waste diversion policies to keep food out of landfills.

States like Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Illinois need commonsense safeguards to prevent workers and residents from getting sick due to extreme heat.

Rather than automatically coating seeds with unnecessary and high-risk insecticides, these chemicals should only be used when really needed. 

This guide includes a report with recommendations for municipalities to advance food rescue and insights and resources to help cities conduct food rescue landscape assessments of their own.

Addressing food waste requires sustained financial support, both public and private. Here are some tips for funding food scrap recycling and food rescue strategies at the city level.

A food scrap diversion law would help solve Illinois’s wasted food problem.

The overapplication of nitrogen fertilizer endangers human and environmental health.

This model executive order on municipal leadership on food waste reduction provides options to “lead by example” through policies and programs within and across city government to raise awareness about and reduce food waste.

Municipalities can use this model ordinance to require businesses, universities, and other large organizations to report the amounts of food waste and surplus food they generate. 

This model policy can be used by municipalities to require the use of compost products where appropriate. The policy is easily adaptable for individual cities or municipalities. 

Municipalities can use this model ordinance to help more readily adopt a local PAYT program, with specific legal language that can be used to establish program components. 

This model policy language helps municipalities with adapting zoning codes to make community composting a permissible land use.

This model policy language helps municipalities reduce regulatory barriers to and provide opportunities for community composting.

The Trump administration is rejecting the legal and scientific basis for cutting climate-changing pollution.