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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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The Future Belongs to Visionaries

StatementUnited States, Arctic
President Obama has a unique opportunity to help safeguard our climate, our children’s health, and our coasts by permanently protecting the U.S. Arctic and Atlantic oceans from future oil and gas leasing.

Scientist Sign on Letter Denouncing EFSA Glyphosate Review (PDF)

Letters
An open letter from 96 prominent epidemiologists, toxicologists, statisticians and molecular biologists from 25 countries denouncing the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) decision that the widely used herbicide, glyphosate (the main ingredient of Roundup) "is unlikely to pose a carcinogenic...

Coalition Letter on Chlorpyrifos Pesticide Hazards (PDF)

Letters
Californians for Pesticide Reform and over 70 other groups including NRDC outline evidence of how use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos in California has contaminated our environment and people and could be harming children’s ability to learn. The letter urges the...

Mid-Atlantic Offshore Wind and Right Whale Agreement (PDF)

Letters
A letter to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announcing an agreement between environmental groups and leading offshore wind developers to incorporate measures to protect right whales during Mid-Atlantic offshore wind development.

Clean Energy Extenders Letter (PDF)

Letters
Letter sent to Congress urging them to pass legislation that provides a multi-year extension of expired and expiring tax incentives benefiting clean and alternative energy technologies as soon as possible.

Letter Opposing the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015 (PDF)

Letters
Eleven environmental groups sent a letter opposing the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015 to the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee. The bill contains several flawed provisions that could cause detrimental effects to public health and our environment.