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Getting the Lead Out: Removing Lead Pipes Would Yield Hundreds of Billions of Dollars in Health Benefits

Issue BriefUnited StatesErik D. Olson
Removing lead service lines could save the United States an estimated $786 billion from avoided health impacts over the next 35 years.
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The Worst of the Worst: High-Priority Plastic Materials, Chemical Additives, and Products to Phase Out

Fact SheetUnited States, InternationalDr. Veena Singla
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Building Batteries Better: Doing the Best With Less

ReportUnited StatesJordan Brinn
Reducing the amount of mining needed through improvements in battery technology, second-life applications for vehicle batteries, and better recycling is key to reducing harms caused from battery supply chains.

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Flint Drinking Water Lawsuit Settlement Agreement (PDF)

Legal filings
The settlement from the Flint, Michigan, Safe Drinking Water lawsuit requires the City of Flint and the State of Michigan to replace Flint’s lead and galvanized steel service lines within three years, while, in the meantime, providing water filter support...

Flint Drinking Water Lawsuit Stipulation as to Settlement (PDF)

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Stipulation as to the settlement from the Flint, Michigan, Safe Drinking Water lawsuit requires the City of Flint and the State of Michigan to replace Flint’s lead and galvanized steel service lines within three years, while, in the meantime, providing...

Petition to EPA Region 9 for Los Cerritos Channel (PDF)

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American Rivers, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Los Angeles Waterkeeper petitioned Region 9 of the Environmental Protection Agency to make polluters accountable for stormwater runoff contamination of two Los Angeles waterways: the Dominguez Channel and the Los Cerritos Channel. Currently...

Petition to EPA Region 9 for Dominguez Channel (PDF)

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American Rivers, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Los Angeles Waterkeeper petitioned Region 9 of the Environmental Protection Agency to make polluters accountable for stormwater runoff contamination of two Los Angeles waterways: the Dominguez Channel and the Los Cerritos Channel. Currently...

Letter to Congress in Support for Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (PDF)

Letters
In a letter sent June 20, 2023, NRDC and 190 other signatories urged members of Congress to maintaining funding for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. The Fund’s investments have great potential to expand economic opportunity for rural, traditional energy, Tribal...

NRDC Letter to Federal Officials on Mountain Valley Pipeline (PDF)

Letters
NRDC and 25 environment and public interest groups sent a letter on June 22, 2023 to leaders of key federal agencies urging them to impose the highest possible safety and environmental standards available for construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline...

California FY24 LSLR IUP Coalition - Comment Letter (PDF)

Letters
This letter, on behalf of 26 organizations, urges the State Water Resource Control Board (the “Board”) to ensure the safe and timely identification and removal of lead service lines. The letter requests the Board to make the revisions to the...

Opinion Granting NRDC’s Motion for Summary Judgment (PDF)

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Opinion granting NRDC’s motion for summary judgment in NRDC et al. v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in which NRDC and our partners challenged the FWS's decision not to protect critical habitat for the endangered rusty patched bumble bee.

Seven States Call for EPA to Ban Chlorpyrifos (PDF)

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The Attorneys General of New York, California, Washington, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts and Vermont formally requested that EPA take immediate action to ban chlorpyrifos. The states argued that the Trump EPA’s refusal to ban this pesticide from food crops—despite the agency’s...

Petition for Review of EPA’s Refusal to Ban Chlorpyrifos (PDF)

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This is a second protective court case filed by NRDC and a coalition of groups, asking the 9 th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to directly review and overturn EPA’s refusal to ban chlorpyrifos, a pesticide linked to...

NRDC v. Perry Complaint (PDF)

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NRDC and its partners are suing the U.S. Department of Energy for unlawfully withholding from publication five final rules establishing energy efficiency standards for household appliances and commercial and industrial equipment.

Petition for Review of EPA Stay of Landfill Emissions Rule (PDF)

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NRDC and partners’ petition for review, filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, seeking to block EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s 90-day administrative stay of standards of performance and emission guidelines for emissions of landfill gas from...

Complaint Filed Against BLM Over Methane Rules (PDF)

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NRDC and partners sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management over the agency’s attempt to rollback its current rules to reduce methane waste from oil and gas operations on public lands.

Letter Opposing House FY18 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill (PDF)

Letters
In a letter to members of Congress, NRDC and 11 other environmental organizations urge opposition to the FY18 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations bill. This bill fails to provide adequate funding to crucial programs and continues the...