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A view of the cross-section of a cut water pipe

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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Clean Energy Building Finance Policy Statement (PDF)

Overview
This statement outlines several federal financing policies that could be deployed quickly in the context of a jobs bill, in order to catalyze a retrofit industry that will generate long-term employment.

Letter to Governor Cuomo Urging New Standards Regulating PFOA and PFOS (PDF)

Letters
Letter submitted by NRDC and 11 other environmental organizations calling on Governor Cuomo to set a tough new standard that will keep perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid—two dangerous pollutants also known as PFOA and PFOS—out of New Yorkers’ drinking water.

Green Prosperity Fact Sheet: Delaware (PDF)

These fact sheets relate to a June 2009 report from the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, that finds that investments in clean energy technology will create more job opportunities -- especially for low-income workers --...

Green Prosperity Fact Sheet: District of Columbia (PDF)

These fact sheets relate to a June 2009 report from the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, that finds that investments in clean energy technology will create more job opportunities -- especially for low-income workers --...

Green Prosperity Fact Sheet: Connecticut (PDF)

These fact sheets relate to a June 2009 report from the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, that finds that investments in clean energy technology will create more job opportunities -- especially for low-income workers --...

Green Prosperity Fact Sheet: Alaska (PDF)

These fact sheets relate to a June 2009 report from the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, that finds that investments in clean energy technology will create more job opportunities -- especially for low-income workers --...

Green Prosperity Fact Sheet: Alabama (PDF)

These fact sheets relate to a June 2009 report from the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, that finds that investments in clean energy technology will create more job opportunities -- especially for low-income workers --...