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Food Waste 101

GuideUnited StatesShelia Hu
An overview of why we throw away so much food, how it impacts people and the planet, and what we can do to waste less.
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Neonics: The Toxic Truth

Fact SheetUnited States, Minnesota, Michigan, California, ColoradoAllison Johnson, Daniel Raichel, Lucas Rhoads, Lena Freij
Pesticides kill bees, pollute water, and threaten our health.
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Single-Use Plastics 101

GuideUnited StatesCourtney Lindwall
Here’s everything you need to know about the most ubiquitous (and avoidable) kind of plastic waste: the kind made to be tossed in mere minutes.

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NRDC Perchlorate Comments (PDF)

Comments
NRDC legal comments opposing EPA’s proposed drinking water standard for perchlorate, and supporting an MCL no higher than 2 ppb.

Cost of Building Power Plants in Your State

OverviewUnited States
Use the levelized cost of electricity tool to explore the cost of building and operating a new power plant in your state using different technologies.

Connectivity and Conservation: Grizzly Bears in the Lower 48

OverviewUnited States, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho
These interactive maps discuss the issue of grizzly bear conservation and present potential corridors that could help reconnect the Yellowstone grizzlies with populations to the north.

ESA Rollback Litigation (PDF)

Legal Filings
NRDC and partners sue the Trump administration for serious rollbacks of ESA protections.

Wildlife Trade 101

GuideInternational, United StatesChia-Yi Hou

Wildlife trade is big business, with wild plants, animals, and products made from them sold around the globe, legally and illegally. It’s also a leading cause of the planet’s accelerating biodiversity crisis and resultant ecosystem collapse.

ACE Rule Petition for Review (PDF)

Legal Filings
NRDC and our partners filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit against EPA for unlawfully repealing the agency’s Clean Power Plan replacing it with the so-called ACE Rule, which will produce only minor reductions...

Insights from Baltimore: A Survey of Food Assistance Clients (PDF)

Report
Forty million Americans lack consistent access to the food they need, including all too many children, disabled individuals, veterans, elderly and the working poor. Many turn to food pantries and other sources of donated food to fill that gap. As...

Bristol Bay Letter to Wheaton Precious Metals (PDF)

Letters
Letter from the tribal and business leaders of Bristol Bay, commercial fishermen, sportsmen, and conservation groups to Wheaton Precious Metals expressing concern regarding any potential investment in the proposed Pebble Mine and outlining the significant permitting, social, and economic hurdles...

Harnessing the Wind: How to Advance Wind Power Offshore

Issue BriefUnited States, East, WestAlison Chase
Even with its immense long-term benefits, offshore wind power, like all types of energy development, poses risks to its immediate environment and must be developed responsibly.

Results of New York Statewide Survey on Williams Pipeline (PDF)

Polling
Results of statewide polling, conducted by Anzalone Liszt Grove Research for NRDC, regarding the Williams pipeline, which would transport fracked gas from Pennsylvania through New Jersey, crossing under New York Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean, finally terminating in the Rockaways...