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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.
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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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Borden Pebble Permitting Timeline Letter (PDF)

Letters
Seven comment letters formally submitted between March and June 2019 to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers by former 23-year Rio Tinto mining and permitting expert Richard Borden, critiquing the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for permitting of the Pebble Mine.

DEIS Summary Comments (PDF)

Letters
Seven comment letters formally submitted between March and June 2019 to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers by former 23-year Rio Tinto mining and permitting expert Richard Borden, critiquing the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for permitting of the Pebble Mine.

Letter to McCoy from Borden (PDF)

Letters
Seven comment letters formally submitted between March and June 2019 to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers by former 23-year Rio Tinto mining and permitting expert Richard Borden, critiquing the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for permitting of the Pebble Mine.

Pebble Mine Economics Letter (PDF)

Letters
Seven comment letters formally submitted between March and June 2019 to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers by former 23-year Rio Tinto mining and permitting expert Richard Borden, critiquing the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for permitting of the Pebble Mine.

53 Organizations Support Climate Action Now Act - Letter (PDF)

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Letter from 53 organizations supporting H.R.9 of the 116th Congress, the Climate Action Now Act. This bill would ensure the U.S. meets its commitments under the Paris agreement and reinforces our national resolve to address climate change. As Americans are...

Health Experts' Letter to EPA on Ethylene Oxide Link to Cancer (PDF)

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Environmental health professionals send a letter to EPA defending the EPA IRIS assessment of ethylene oxide, linking it to cancer. The letter is submitted as a comment on EPA’s National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Hydrochloric Acid Production Residual...

CA AB1440 Sign On Letter (PDF)

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Sign on letter with partners supporting CA Assembly bill 1440 in 2019. This bill provides much needed reform to the outdated statutory mission statements that govern management of oil and gas production by California’s Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal...

Scientist Sign on Letter Denouncing EFSA Glyphosate Review (PDF)

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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)

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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...

NRDC Letter Opposing "Secret Science" Bill in House Hearing (PDF)

Letters
In a letter to the House Science Committee, NRDC Clean Air Director, John Walke offers his views in opposition to the “Secret Science Reform Act of 2014”. This draft legislation would effectively amend numerous environmental statutes in a manner that...

Exide Comment Letter - Supplemental (PDF)

Letters
A comment letter and a supplemental comment letter submitted by NRDC and Communities for a Better Environment regarding the proposed SCAQMD Amended Rule 1420.1 and Exide Technologies, Inc., a lead-recycling facility in Vernon, CA.