Data, Reports & Resources

Neonics: The Toxic Truth

June 3, 2024 Fact SheetUnited States, Minnesota, Michigan, California, ColoradoAllison Johnson, Daniel Raichel, Lucas Rhoads, Lena Freij

Pesticides kill bees, pollute water, and threaten our health.

Lines We Don’t Want to Cross: Synthetic Chemicals and Plastics Threaten Planetary Health

April 1, 2024 Fact SheetInternationalRenée Sharp, Dr. Veena Singla, Shannon Puebla

The Worst of the Worst: High-Priority Plastic Materials, Chemical Additives, and Products to Phase Out

October 19, 2023 Fact SheetUnited States, InternationalDr. Veena Singla, Renée Sharp

Federal Drinking Water Monitoring Overlooks Many PFAS

April 12, 2023 Fact SheetUnited StatesDr. Anna Reade, Dr. Katie Pelch

Community-led water testing finds dangerous levels of PFAS that the EPA does not test for.

The Essential-Use Approach: A Policy Tool for Reducing Exposures to Toxic Chemicals

January 31, 2023 Issue BriefUnited StatesDr. Anna Reade

Exposure to toxic chemicals in consumer and industrial products and the environment puts people at increased risk of disease and death. The idea of the essential-use approach is not to ban products, but to phase out all non-essential uses of…

U.S. Livestock Industries Persist in High-Intensity Antibiotic Use

December 1, 2022 Issue BriefUnited StatesDavid Wallinga, MD

Curbing overuse is critical to slow the spread of antibiotic resistance.

Building Climate-Ready Fisheries and Fishing Communities

November 8, 2022 Issue BriefUnited StatesDr. Lisa Suatoni, Molly Masterton

Warming waters are driving a mass migration of life beneath the sea—and a decades-old fishery law cannot keep up without climate-ready science and policy.

Recycling Lies: “Chemical Recycling” of Plastic Is Just Greenwashing Incineration

September 7, 2022 Issue BriefUnited StatesDr. Veena Singla

As public concern grows about mountains of plastic trash, the plastics industry is promoting technologies that it misleadingly calls “chemical recycling” and touts as a solution to the plastic crisis. But it is a false solution that will not solve…

Toxic Fashion: Remove “Forever” PFAS Chemicals from Our Apparel

January 31, 2022 Fact SheetUnited StatesSujatha Bergen, Yiliqi

Immediately banning all PFAS from apparel is an important step in reducing exposure to these hazardous chemicals.

To Protect Human Health, PFAS Must Be Managed as a Class

December 8, 2021 Fact SheetUnited StatesDr. Anna Reade

Corporate Irresponsibility: JBS’s Inaction and Disregard for Worker Safety have Increased the Spread of COVID-19 in the United States and Brazil

May 25, 2021 Issue BriefUnited States, BrazilJessica Carey-Webb, David Wallinga, MD

Throughout the pandemic, JBS workers in both Brazil and the United States have reported a culture in which employees have to work while sick (there is no sick leave) and facemask and social distancing rules are routinely not enforced.

The Devastating Impact of Plastic Pollution on Our Oceans and Marine Life

December 15, 2020 Fact SheetUnited States, InternationalDillon Hanson-Ahumada

To prevent our oceans from becoming completely inundated with plastic, we need to tackle the issue at its source by preventing plastic from entering the environment in the first place.

Better Burgers: Why It’s High Time the U.S. Beef Industry Kicked Its Antibiotics Habit

June 25, 2020 Issue BriefUnited StatesDavid Wallinga, MD

The United States is grappling with COVID-19, the worst public health crisis in a century. Another worsening health crisis is staring us in the face, one caused by antibiotic-resistant infections. Without urgent action to stop the overuse of antibiotics, including…

Antibiotic Consumption in U.S. Pork, Beef, and Turkey Industries Vastly Outstrips Comparable Industries in Europe, and the U.S. Chicken Industry

February 4, 2020 Issue BriefDavid Wallinga, MD

Our analysis shows the U.S. livestock industry consumes medically important antibiotics almost twice as intensively as the industries in 30 European countries.

Guide to Building Healthy Soil

January 24, 2020 Issue BriefNorth Dakota, Montana, Idaho, United StatesArohi Sharma

As farmers prepare for the future, they cannot overlook the importance of soil health.

Toxic Drinking Water: The PFAS Contamination Crisis

November 19, 2019 Fact SheetUnited StatesDr. Anna Reade

Despite the known health risks of PFAS, no enforceable national drinking water standards have been set. We cannot wait for the federal government to respond. To address the extraordinary health threat posed to people across the country from widespread PFAS-contaminated…

Workers Suffer When Meat Producers Overuse Antibiotics

July 1, 2019 Fact SheetUnited StatesAllison Johnson, Avinash Kar

Antibiotic resistance threatens everyone’s health, but workers within the meat industry are especially at risk.

Antibiotic Resistance: From the Farm to You

May 8, 2019 Fact SheetUnited StatesDavid Wallinga, MD

Nashville Food Waste Initiative

April 15, 2019 Fact SheetUnited States, Tennessee, NashvilleDarby Hoover, JoAnne Berkenkamp

Food Matters Fact Sheet: Empowering Cities to Tackle Food Waste

February 7, 2019 Fact SheetUnited StatesElizabeth Balkan

NRDC’s Food Matter’s initiative partners with cities to reduce food waste by 15 percent within five years through a set of innovative policies and programs.