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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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Stipulation of Dismissal of Challenge to EPA Landfills Stay (PDF)

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NRDC and partners joint stipulation with EPA, filed January 31, 2018 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, agreeing to voluntarily dismiss our challenge to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s 90-day administrative stay of standards of performance and...

Ivory Education Institute v. State of California - Order on Motions (PDF)

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The Los Angeles Superior Court upheld California’s 2015 ivory ban law, which the Ivory Education Institute challenged as unconstitutional. The Natural Resources Defense Council, Center for Biological Diversity, Humane Society of the United States, International Fund for Animal Welfare, and...

Petition for Review of EPA Stay of Landfill Emissions Rule (PDF)

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NRDC and partners’ petition for review, filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, seeking to block EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s 90-day administrative stay of standards of performance and emission guidelines for emissions of landfill gas from...

NRDC v. Perry Complaint (PDF)

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NRDC and its partners are suing the U.S. Department of Energy for unlawfully withholding from publication five final rules establishing energy efficiency standards for household appliances and commercial and industrial equipment.

Petition for Review of EPA’s Refusal to Ban Chlorpyrifos (PDF)

Legal filings
This is a second protective court case filed by NRDC and a coalition of groups, asking the 9 th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to directly review and overturn EPA’s refusal to ban chlorpyrifos, a pesticide linked to...

Seven States Call for EPA to Ban Chlorpyrifos (PDF)

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The Attorneys General of New York, California, Washington, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts and Vermont formally requested that EPA take immediate action to ban chlorpyrifos. The states argued that the Trump EPA’s refusal to ban this pesticide from food crops—despite the agency’s...

Opinion Granting NRDC’s Motion for Summary Judgment (PDF)

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Opinion granting NRDC’s motion for summary judgment in NRDC et al. v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in which NRDC and our partners challenged the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's decision not to protect critical habitat for the endangered rusty...

Petition urging FDA to Stop Antibiotic Overuse in Livestock (PDF)

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The Natural Resources Defense Council, Center for Science in the Public Interest, Earthjustice, Food Animal Concerns Trust, Public Citizen, U.S. Public Interest Research Group, and California Public Interest Research Group petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to withdraw approval of...