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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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Comments of SCHF, Earthjustice, Environmental Health Strategy Center, NRDC, and the Undersigned Groups on EPA’s Draft Risk Evaluation for C.I. Pigment Violet 29 under the Amended Toxic Substances Control Act (PDF)

Comments
EPA's risk determination that PV29 does not present an unreasonable risk is based on limited and incomplete information that is insufficient under the Agency’s own risk assessment guidelines to establish the absence of risk. Its analysis of hazard and exposure...

Comments on Behalf of the Natural Resources Defense Council on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Proposed Determination to Restrict the Use of an Area as a Disposal Site; Pebble Deposit Area, Southwest Alaska, September 18, 2014 (PDF)

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NRDC Briefs and Comments regarding Pebble Mine / Bristol Bay, 2012-2014. Brief on Behalf of the Natural Resources Defense Council in Support of Petitions to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for Action Regarding the Proposed Pebble Mine Under Section 404(c)...

Brief on Behalf of the NRDC in Support of Petitions to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for Action Regarding the Proposed Pebble Mine Under Section 404(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, March 28, 2012 (PDF)

Legal filings
NRDC Briefs and Comments regarding Pebble Mine / Bristol Bay, 2012-2014. Brief on Behalf of the Natural Resources Defense Council in Support of Petitions to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for Action Regarding the Proposed Pebble Mine Under Section 404(c)...

NRDC Comment Letter Regarding Montana Wolf Management Rule Changes (PDF)

Letters
This letter details NRDC’s concerns regarding Montana’s proposal to amend its wolf management rules. NRDC opposes many of the proposed amendments because they would increase the number of wolves and other species trapped, shot and killed by landowners on private...

National and Alaska Survey on Pebble Mine (PDF)

Survey
A national poll reveals solid opposition to Pebble Mine, proposed at the headwaters of Bristol Bay, Alaska. Protecting salmon – and the jobs, people, and wildlife that depend on it – from the mine’s projected 10 billion tons of waste...