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

October 25, 2023 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.

The Worst of the Worst: High-Priority Plastic Materials, Chemical Additives, and Products to Phase Out

October 19, 2023 Fact SheetUnited States, InternationalDr. Veena Singla

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Building Batteries Better: Doing the Best With Less

July 10, 2023 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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Delivering Carnivore Conflict Prevention: A Workshop to Advance Partnerships and Solutions - Report (PDF)

October 30, 2023 Report

This report summarizes the content and policy solutions that emerged from the Delivering Carnivore Conflict Prevention Workshop in June 2023.

Fixing a Broken Planet: The Pathway Toward a Transformative Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF)

November 30, 2022 OverviewInternationalPaul Todd, Zak Smith

Only a fundamental, system-wide reorganization across technological, economic and social factors, including paradigms, goals and values, will produce the changes we need to secure life as we know it.

30x30: NRDC’s Commitment to Protect Nature and Life on Earth

August 9, 2022 OverviewInternational, United States

We have the tools to create a better, healthier future for our planet—and ourselves—but we must act now.

Bigger than Bees: How Neonics Contaminate Water, Threaten Ecosystems, and Cause Human Health Concerns in New York

January 21, 2020 ReportNew YorkDaniel Raichel, Dr. Jennifer Sass

Neonic use has been linked to a dramatic decline in insects, including plummeting bee and butterfly populations, disrupting entire ecosystems and harming birds, fish, and other wildlife.

Unintentional Partner: How the United States Helps the Illegal Shark Fin Market

October 8, 2019 ReportUnited StatesElizabeth Murdock, Vanessa Villanueva

In recent decades, shark populations have suffered steep declines, due primarily to the lucrative market for shark fins, both legal and illegal. NRDC found that the United States plays a substantial, unrecognized role in facilitating the unsustainable international shark fin…

Connectivity and Conservation: Grizzly Bears in the Lower 48

August 21, 2019 OverviewUnited States, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho

These interactive maps discuss the issue of grizzly bear conservation and present potential corridors that could help reconnect the Yellowstone grizzlies with populations to the north.

Losing Ground: Energy Development’s Impacts on the Wildlife, Landscape, and Hunting Traditions of the American West

November 16, 2015 ReportWyoming, Montana, WestAmanda Jahshan

Ensure Thriving Populations of Wolves

August 31, 2015 OverviewUnited States

NRDC has been fighting to maintain strong wolf safeguards and to ensure populations rebound fully.

Net Loss: The Killing of Marine Mammals in Foreign Fisheries

March 3, 2014 ReportInternationalZak Smith

Polar Bears on the Precipice: Commercial International Trade of Polar Bears is Affecting Their Chances of Survival

February 26, 2013 OverviewInternational, CanadaElly Pepper, Zak Smith, Andrew Wetzler

The international body that oversees commercial trade of endangered species, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), will be meeting in 2013 to decide if the world will protect our last remaining polar bears from trade.