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How Healthy Is America’s Public Health …

WEBThe author cites figures from a 2019 paper published in the American Journal of Public Health showing that our country’s investment in public health is currently $19 per …

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Report: Health Costs from Climate Change and Fossil Fuel …

WEBWASHINGTON – The staggering, often-overlooked financial costs to our health from fossil-fuel generated air pollution and climate change surpass $820 billion in health costs each …

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Climate Change and Health: Air Quality

WEBClimate change is one of the most serious global health threats we face, with the World Health Organization warning that about 250,000 additional deaths will be caused by …

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Air Pollution: Everything You Need to Know

WEBA number of air pollutants pose severe health risks and can sometimes be fatal, even in small amounts. Almost 200 of them are regulated by law; some of the most common are …

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Climate Change and Health: Extreme Heat

WEBClimate change threatens our health by warming the planet, exposing us to a range of heat-related illnesses. About two-thirds of Americans—nearly 210 million—live in areas with a …

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Heat Pumps Are Coming to New CA Homes. What About …

WEBThe proposed CA building code is a big step forward—but the opportunity to replace ACs with two-way heat pumps upon burnout is a massive missed opportunity.

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Healthy, Climate-Resilient Homes for All: Centering …

WEBHowever, the built environment is also home to long-standing inequities in housing quality for systematically marginalized communities, which contribute to health disparities such …

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Clearing the Air: The Benefits of the Clean Air Act

WEBToday, the annual benefits from cleaner air include up to 370,000 avoided premature deaths, 189,000 fewer hospital admissions for cardiac and respiratory illnesses, and net …

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Building a Healthy Home

WEBA good home ventilation system will go a long way, but even opening windows—assuming outdoor air quality is reasonable—can help, too. Keep dust to a minimum: Use a wet …

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FACT SHEET FOOD MATTERS

WEBPage 2 NRDC: A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO REDUCING FOOD WASTE NRDC establish baseline estimates of how much food is wasted. This has helped cities overcome a …

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Effects of Climate Change

WEBClimate change is our planet’s greatest existential threat. If we don’t limit greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, the consequences of rising global …

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Water Pollution Definition

WEBWater pollution occurs when harmful substances—often chemicals or microorganisms—contaminate a stream, river, lake, ocean, aquifer, or other body of …

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Regenerative Agriculture 101

WEBRegenerative agriculture is important because it prioritizes climate, ecosystems, water quality, people’s health, relationships within and across ecosystems, and fair pay and …

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New Study Confirms Atrazine's Effects Across a Range of Species

WEBWith every passing year the evidence of atrazine's harmful environmental and human health effects grows stronger. Now a new study, summarizing over a decade of …

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NRDC: EPA Issues Power Plant Standards

WEBWASHINGTON – The Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency released new pollution standards for power plants, addressing one of the largest sources of …

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Environmental Justice in Chicago: It’s Been One Battle After Another

WEBKeith Mulvihill. Cheryl Johnson and Peggy Salazar, lifelong residents of Chicago’s South Side, grew up in some of the city’s most polluted neighborhoods, in the shadow of dirty …

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Causes and Effects of Lead in Water

WEBAdults with lead poisoning can experience high blood pressure, joint and muscle pain, difficulty with memory or concentration, and harm to reproductive health. Jeremiah …

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Rice's Whale in the Spotlight at Smithsonian Symposium

WEBDrilling on public lands, mass wildlife extinctions, worsening climate change—our planet is in crisis. Help us fight back and your gift will be matched $1 for $1.

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Power Plant Carbon Rules: What’s Changed Since the 2023 …

WEBMay 2023 Proposal: April 2024 Final Rule: Long-lived plants: For plants expected to run beyond 2040: 90% CCS by 2030: For plants expected to run beyond 2039: 90% CCS by …

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The Drinking Water Crisis That North Carolina Ignored

WEBWhen the Wilmington, North Carolina, StarNews broke a story in 2017 about the rampant contamination of the region’s drinking water supply by a chemical called GenX, Tom …

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Let’s Commit to Saving Workers from Heat, Not Killing Them

WEBWorkers Memorial Day, on April 28, is a somber annual recognition of deaths, injuries, and illnesses that never should have happened.Despite U.S. health and safety laws, too …

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NRDC Joins White House Freshwater Restoration Challenge

WEBWASHINGTON — NRDC joined the White House’s new Freshwater Challenge—a collaborative initiative with states, tribes, business interests, and non-governmental …

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Newark’s drinking water

WEB1 September 13, 2017 Via E-mail to: Ras J. Baraka Mayor, City of Newark City Hall, 920 Broad Street Newark, NJ 07102 [email protected]

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2,4-D Weed Killer Toxicity, Use in Herbicides and Potential …

WEBThe U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that by 2020, the use of 2,4-D on America's farms could rise between 100 percent and 600 percent now that it has been approved as …

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NRDC: Protect Your Family from the Hidden Hazards in Air …

WEBMeanwhile, consumers should be aware that the pretty label and sweet scent may mask something much less pleasant. Gina Solomon, m.D., m.P.H., Senior ScientiSt, nrDc. For …

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NRDC Document Bank: lan_11031801a.pdf

WEBMr. Christopher O. Ward Page 2 of 3 March 17, 2011 in the region.1 The analysis encompassed a variety of expansion projects and operational improvements at the …

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