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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.
Bits of plastic waste float underwater

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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CPP Testimony of Amanda Levin (PDF)

Testimony
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed to repeal the Clean Power Plan, the nation’s first limits on carbon pollution from power plants that drive dangerous climate change. In response to the EPA holding just one public hearing about...

Testimony for Wastewater Oversight Hearing (PDF)

Testimony
The written testimony of Larry Levine, senior attorney in the Water Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, on the need to improve sewage overflow control plans, increase green infrastructure on private property, and reform water rates to equitably generate...

Comments from NRDC on IMD HHDRA (PDF)

Comments
Imidacloprid is one of the most popular and widespread insecticides in the U.S. NRDC comments detail scientific evidence that it also is responsible for acute poisonings in people, and poses potential developmental and chronic health risks.Imidacloprid is one of the...

NRDC on SAB Nominees (PDF)

Comments
NRDC comments on the over 100 nominees to the Trump-Pruitt EPA Science Advisory Board. The list includes climate-deniers and people financially tied to the regulated chemical industry.

Administrative Appeal to EPA over Chlorpyrifos - Comments (PDF)

Comments
NRDC, together with a dozen other groups, filed an administrative appeal with the EPA urging the agency to ban chlorpyrifos—a pesticide linked to learning disabilities in children—and challenging the agency on its continued use after EPA scientists have determined it...