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Single-Use Plastics 101

April 30, 2024 GuideUnited StatesCourtney Lindwall

Here’s everything you need to know about the most ubiquitous (and avoidable) kind of plastic waste: the kind made to be tossed in mere minutes.

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Will Funds for Water Infrastructure Flow Fairly?

April 29, 2024 ReportUnited StatesBecky Hammer, Erik D. Olson

These report cards grade all 50 states on water funding equity.

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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.

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Rusty Patched Complaint (PDF)

May 13, 2014 Legal filings

Complaint filed in ESA deadline suit to list as endangered the rusty patched bumble bee.

Petition to Conduct Interim Administrative Review for the Pesticide Glyphosate, in Light of Serious Harm to Monarch Butterflies (PDF)

February 21, 2014 Legal filings

NRDC is petitioning EPA under FIFRA to undertake urgent interim administrative review for glyphosate, and to restrict the pesticide’s uses and/or impose other necessary mitigation measures, to prevent unreasonable adverse effects to the monarch butterfly. As discussed in the petition...

NRDC Petition to List the Tufted Puffin Under the Endangered Species Act (PDF)

February 12, 2014 Legal filings

NRDC submitted a petition on February 12, 2014 to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service seeking Endangered Species Act listing for the California, Oregon, and Washington population of the tufted puffin, a seabird well-known for its distinctive facial coloring and...

Court Decision Upholding California’s Ivory Ban (PDF)

November 1, 2018 Legal filings

Ruling in Ivory Education Institute v. California, in which NRDC is an intervenor, the California Court of Appeals confirmed the legality of California’s ivory ban and ruled to uphold it. NRDC helped pass the ivory ban (now California Fish and...

NRDC v. EPA- Declaration of Dr. Reva Rubenstein on Behalf of the EPA, June 16, 2006 (PDF)

July 5, 2011 Legal filings

This is the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Docket No. 04-1438. Economic Impact Analysis for Methy Bromide Allocation in the United States; Human Health Benefits Of Stratospheric Ozone Protection and Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion...

Washington State Building Energy Code Decision (PDF)

February 8, 2011 Legal filings

This is a federal district court decision in which the court upheld the legality of the Washington State building energy code from a preemption challenge.

Notice of Appeal for FirstEnergy BayShore Plant, 12/17/2010 (PDF)

December 17, 2010 Legal filings

Five groups are appealing pollution permits for a coal plant in Lake Erie’s Maumee Bay that currently kills 60 billion fish on the grounds that the State of Ohio is not requiring the best available technology to eliminate the problem...

Leading Economists Give Industry Reports on EPA Standards Embarrassing Grades (PDF)

October 28, 2010 Legal filings

Recent reports from industry sources purporting to evaluate the economic impacts of policies to keep America’s air clean received unsatisfactory grades from leading economists from Dartmouth, the University of Wyoming and the University of California at Berkeley. Grading the industry...

NYS DEC Ruling on GE PCBs, 1976 (PDF)

October 6, 2010 Legal filings

Original legal ruling holding GE liable for PCB pollution in Hudson River.

A Petition to List the Whitebark Pine as an Endangered Species (PDF)

December 8, 2008 Legal filings

NRDC is petitioning to have the whitebark pine tree added to the federal Endangered Species list. The tree is native to much of western North America's mountain habitat and has seen significant decreases in number due to an array of...

Defendants’ Motion in Limine (PDF)

October 15, 2018 Legal filings

The United States Government’s motion in limine to exclude certain testimony of plaintiffs’ expert witnesses.

Federal Defendants’ Answer in Juliana v. United States (PDF)

January 13, 2017 Legal filings

The United States Government’s answer to plaintiffs’ amended complaint in Juliana v. United States.

NRDC's Brief for Respondents in US Supreme Court Sonar Case (PDF)

October 8, 2008 Legal filings

On September 8, 2008, NRDC filed its brief in response to the Navy's appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Navy has asked the Court to vacate the preliminary injunction issued and affirmed by the lower federal courts with respect...

Federal Appellate Court Upholds Decision to Keep Water Safe From Construction Pollution (PDF)

September 18, 2008 Legal filings

Opinion and court order issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, affirming the decision from the lower court that EPA has a mandatory duty to set technology-based standards to control water pollution from the construction and...

Final Settlement Agreement Outlining U.S. Navy's Use of LFA Sonar in Pacific Ocean, 2008 (PDF)

August 12, 2008 Legal filings

NRDC v Gutierrez outlines the specific longitude and latitude of the Western Pacific and Hawaii regions permissable for Low Frequency Active (LFA) sonar tests and training exercises conducted by the U.S. Navy. The U.S. Navy is required by federal law...

Ninth Circuit Opinion: Appellate Court Upholds Protections for Marine Mammals (PDF)

February 29, 2008 Legal filings

Appellate Court upholds protections for marine mammals in training with high intensity sonar.

Court Order Granting Preliminary Injunction in LFA Sonar Lawsuit (PDF)

February 6, 2008 Legal filings

Opinion and court order, issued by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, granting in part a motion by NRDC and other plaintiffs for a preliminary injunction limiting the U.S. Navy's peacetime use of low frequency sonar...

Court Order Denying Presidential Waivers on Sonar (PDF)

February 4, 2008 Legal filings

February 4, 2008 court order reaffirms an injunction issued early in January, requiring the Navy to reduce harm to whales and other marine mammals from sonar training.

Memorandum of Points and Authorities in Opposition to Application to Vacate Preliminary Injunction or to Partially Stay Pending Appeal (PDF)

January 22, 2008 Legal filings

Brief filed January 22, 2008 in response to the Bush administration's attempt to exempt the Navy from the National Environmental Policy Act and the Coastal Zone Management Act.

U.S. Court of Appeals Order Denying Defendant's Motion to Suspend Proceedings (PDF)

November 28, 2018 Legal filings

This ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit confirms a preliminary order implementing a federal law that requires a ban on seafood imported from Mexico’s Upper Gulf of California and caught with gillnets that drown the...

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