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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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Letter to Congressional Leadership Opposing Corn Ethanol Subsidies (PDF)

Letters
A broad coalition of organizations, including Freedomworks, MoveOn, environmental advocates, budget hawks, religious organizations, hunger and development groups, food producers, agricultural industry representatives and dozens of others from all parts of the political spectrum sent a letter to Congressional leadership...

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

Legal filings
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 and the International Trade in Wildlife (PDF)

Overview
The diversity of plant and animal species across our global commons is deeply connected to the health and sustainability of communities and wildlife around the world. Maintaining a broad variety of wildlife provides enormous ecological, cultural, economic, and aesthetic value...

NRDC v. Perry Complaint (PDF)

Legal filings
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)

Legal filings
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...

Administrative Appeal to EPA over Chlorpyrifos - Comments (PDF)

Comments
NRDC, together with a dozen other groups, filed an administrative appeal with the EPA urging the agency to ban chlorpyrifos—a pesticide linked to learning disabilities in children—and challenging the agency on its continued use after EPA scientists have determined it...