Data, Reports & Resources

Small Modular Reactors: More Questions Than Answers

December 12, 2023 Issue BriefUnited StatesDr. Bemnet Alemayehu, Dr. Matthew McKinzie

Corporate Irresponsibility: JBS’s Inaction and Disregard for Worker Safety have Increased the Spread of COVID-19 in the United States and Brazil

May 25, 2021 Issue BriefUnited States, BrazilJessica Carey-Webb, David Wallinga, MD

Throughout the pandemic, JBS workers in both Brazil and the United States have reported a culture in which employees have to work while sick (there is no sick leave) and facemask and social distancing rules are routinely not enforced.

Better Burgers: Why It’s High Time the U.S. Beef Industry Kicked Its Antibiotics Habit

June 25, 2020 Issue BriefUnited StatesDavid Wallinga, MD

The United States is grappling with COVID-19, the worst public health crisis in a century. Another worsening health crisis is staring us in the face, one caused by antibiotic-resistant infections. Without urgent action to stop the overuse of antibiotics, including…

A Pipe Dream or Climate Solution?

June 15, 2020 Issue BriefUnited StatesMerrian Borgeson

Biogas and synthetic gas, commonly referred to as “renewable natural gas,” are often not as climate-friendly as claimed, and burning fuels like methane still creates harmful air pollutants. We must be strategic about how we deploy them and keep our…

A Bad Biomass Bet: Why the Leading Approach to Biomass Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage Isn't Carbon Negative

October 12, 2021 Issue BriefUnited States, InternationalNathanael Greene, Sami Yassa

Moving Forward: The Role of Transportation Networking Companies in a Sustainable Future

November 17, 2021 Issue BriefUnited StatesRabi Abonour

Without changes, companies like Lyft and Uber are likely to increase overall greenhouse emissions by encouraging additional driving. In the face of catastrophic climate change, we cannot let that happen.

Recycling Lies: “Chemical Recycling” of Plastic Is Just Greenwashing Incineration

September 7, 2022 Issue BriefUnited StatesDr. Veena Singla

As public concern grows about mountains of plastic trash, the plastics industry is promoting technologies that it misleadingly calls “chemical recycling” and touts as a solution to the plastic crisis. But it is a false solution that will not solve…

Down to the Wire: Progressive Permitting Reforms Will Accelerate Renewable Energy and Transmission Buildout and Help Meet U.S. Climate Targets

September 6, 2023 Issue BriefUnited StatesNathanael Greene, Cullen Howe

Power Shift: Renewables Beat LNG for Climate and Competitiveness

December 4, 2023 Issue BriefUnited States, InternationalShruti Shukla, Ade Samuel

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 EPA’s Power Plant Carbon Rules Can Be Built to Last

April 18, 2023 Issue BriefUnited StatesLissa Lynch, David Doniger

The EPA has a firm legal basis for strong power sector standards that will accelerate the sector’s ongoing reduction of carbon pollution and help meet the urgent threat of climate change

Strengthening U.S. Leadership to Deter Illegal Seafood: Implementation Challenges and Recommendations for the Seafood Import Monitoring Program

January 4, 2023 Issue BriefUnited States, InternationalSandy Aylesworth, Molly Masterton

As the world’s largest seafood-importing nation by value, the United States holds outsize purchasing power and the market leverage necessary to help transform the seafood industry and eliminate destructive illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing.

The Case Against New Offshore Oil and Gas Leasing on the Outer Continental Shelf

May 26, 2022 Issue BriefUnited States, East, WestLauren Kubiak, Brad Sewell, Sarah Chasis

To meet our climate commitments, the United States must significantly reduce its current level of fossil fuel exploitation, including by not leasing new areas for development.

Clean Electricity Tax Credits in the Inflation Reduction Act Will Reduce Emissions, Grow Jobs, and Lower Bills

October 12, 2022 Issue BriefUnited StatesAmanda Levin, Jacqueline Ennis

The Inflation Reduction Act provides $369 billion in strategic investment to promote clean energy and climate justice, including more than $100 billion in clean electricity tax incentives.

U.S. Livestock Industries Persist in High-Intensity Antibiotic Use

December 1, 2022 Issue BriefUnited StatesDavid Wallinga, MD

Curbing overuse is critical to slow the spread of antibiotic resistance.

The Essential-Use Approach: A Policy Tool for Reducing Exposures to Toxic Chemicals

January 31, 2023 Issue BriefUnited StatesDr. Anna Reade

Exposure to toxic chemicals in consumer and industrial products and the environment puts people at increased risk of disease and death. The idea of the essential-use approach is not to ban products, but to phase out all non-essential uses of…

Risky Business: Surging U.S. Liquefied Natural Gas Exports Jeopardize Global Decarbonization Goals

June 16, 2022 Issue BriefUnited States, InternationalShruti Shukla, Ade Samuel

Instead of leading the world in LNG exports, the United States must curb the deeply harmful expansion of this sector and phase out all support for overseas fossil gas investments impeding decarbonization goals worldwide.

Not Just Dirt: Toxic Chemicals in Indoor Dust

September 14, 2016 Issue BriefUnited StatesDr. Veena Singla

Hydro-Highway Robbery: Reguemos Chile Would Benefit Agribusinesses at the Expense of the Environment, Small Farmers, and Indigenous Peoples

December 8, 2020 Issue BriefChileJessica Carey-Webb

As Chile rewrites its constitution, the country should invest instead in alternative projects that avoid the harmful anticipated impacts of this hydro-highway.

Resilient Seas: Why We Need to Protect 30 Percent of America’s Ocean by 2030

November 18, 2020 Issue BriefUnited StatesAlison Chase

Warmer and more acidic than ever before, ocean conditions are driving marine life to search for cooler waters, helping fuel harmful algal blooms, and destroying important habitats like coral reefs. We must take real and immediate action to help our…