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A view of the cross-section of a cut water pipe

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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Testimony of Kate Sinding on Natural Gas Drilling in the Marcellus Shale (PDF)

Testimony
Testimony of Kate Sinding, Deputy Director of the Urban East Program, Natural Resources Defense Council, before the Department of Environmental Conservation on November 10, 2009. This testimony addresses the draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (dSGEIS) governing natural gas drilling...

Letter from NRDC to WHO, ILSI, and OECD (PDF)

Letters
A letter from NRDC in response to a workshop on Risk Assessment, Feb, 2011, co-hosted by the World Health Organization and ILSI, a corporate trade organization.

Shared Principles for a Resource-Specific Fixed Resource Requirement (PDF)

FERC’s June 29, 2018 order in Docket No. EL18-178 proposes implementation of a resource-specific Fixed Resource Requirement (FRR-RS) to provide an opportunity for the PJM market to account for the capacity contributions of state-incentivized resources. The principles and terms presented...

Gulf Coast Seafood Consumption Survey (PDF)

Survey
This document summarizes the results of an independent survey of seafood consumption rates of Gulf Coast residents and compares them to the estimates used by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to establish safe levels of oil spill contaminants.

FDA Seafood Consumption Survey Letter, December 8, 2010 (PDF)

Letters
This document is a letter signed by 37 local and national groups urging FDA to reassess the cut-off levels used for contaminants in Gulf seafood to assure that local dietary patterns and other vulnerabilities are incorporated, and to assure Gulf...

FDA Letter on Gulf Seafood Safety (PDF)

Letters
Letter to the Food and Drug Administration making recommendations to improve the monitoring and assessment of seafood safety in the Gulf following the BP oil spill disaster.