Natural Resources Defense Council

Natural Resources Defense Council, San Francisco, CA Appliances... 

Lisa Speer, Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, New York... 

There seems to be no corresponding analysis by the initial proponents of TSCA, the group of environmentalist organizations including the Natural Resources Defense Council the Environmental Defense Fund, The Conservation Foundation, and others. In time, one expects that such a perspective will be contributed. 

One of the criticisms of the Agency has been that they have failed to take action within the statutory 12-month period on the ITC list of chemicals. This resulted in a suit by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in May, 1979. The District Court ordered the EPA to prepare a plan for complying with... 

Natural Resources Defense Council (1989). Intolerable Risk Pesticides in Our Children s Food, National Resources Defense Council, Washington, D.C. 

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The practice of incorporating low levels of antibiotics in livestock feeds to promote growth has been particularly controversial. It is feared that this practice will result in development of resistant bacteria in animals, which will in turn be passed on to humans, thus diminishing the effectiveness of antibiotics in treatment of human disease. A petition from the Natural Resources Defense Council to ban such uses of penicillin and tetracyclines recently was denied by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The controversy therefore is likely to continue. Opinion on the subject is quite polarized, and several points of view are presented in this book. 

The Natural Resources Defense Council petition infers from calculations based on a very small number of observations that antibiotic resistant Salmonella are more virulent, hence result in... 

Ahmed A. K. S. Chasis and B. McBarnette. Petition of the Natural Resources Defense Council Inc. to the Secretary of Health and Human Services requesting immediate suspension of approval of the subtherapeutic use of penicillin and tetracyclines in animal feeds" Nov. 20. NRDC New York NY. 1984. 

On November 20, 1984, Secretary Heckler received from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) a petition to declare the subtherapeutic uses of penicillin and the tetracyclines in animal feeds an imminent hazard to the public health. NRDC argues that, on the basis of three recently published scientific studies—the O Brien and the two Holmberg studies discussed earlier—FDA is likely to eventually withdraw approval of the subtherapeutic uses of penicillin and the tetracyclines in animal feeds. NRDC argues, based on these studies, that these uses meet the criteria for imminent hazard under the law. The petition and its impact were discussed before Congress, in hearings before the Committee on Science and Technology in December of 1984 (15). 

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) report Intolerable Risk Pesticides in Our Children s Food focused on the increased risk of the adverse effects of pesticides on children. This was in part because of the smaller size of the child relative to the adult and because of different food consumption practices. Relative to their size, children eat, drink, and breathe more than adults in part because they are growing. The use and regulation of pesticides illustrate the complexities of risk analysis and risk management and the difficulties in determining an acceptable level of exposure with acceptable risks. In the United States approximately 1 billion pounds of pesticides (with about 600 different active ingredients) are used annually in the agricultural sector, and worldwide approximately 4 billion pounds are used. There are a range of human health and environmental health effects associated with the use of pesticides. 

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Online. Available HTTP (accessed 10 April 2003). 

Clean Water Oceans Water Pollution In Depth. A collection of reports and articles about water quality from the Natural Resources Defense Council, http //www.nrdc.org/water/pollution/depth.asp. Accessed on September 1, 2006. 

These plants would commit the planet to total co2 emissions of some 500 billion metric tons over their lifetime, unless they are backfit with carbon capture equipment at some time during their life, as David Hawkins, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council s Climate Center, told the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce in June 2003.25 Hawkins continued ... 

Lipman, T. E., What Will Power the Hydrogen Economy Present and Future Sources of Hydrogen Energy, Final Report, prepared for The Natural Resources Defense Council, Davis, Calif. Energy and Resources Group and Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley, and Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis, UCD-ITS-RR-04-10, July 12, 2004. 

Greene, N. Growing Energy How Biofuels Can Help End America s Oil Dependence, Natural Resources Defense Council New York, 2004. 

RAKESH AGRAWAL, NAE, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, Pennsylvania DAVID L. BODDE, University of Missouri, Kansas City ROBERT EPPERLY, Consultant, Mountain View, California ANTONIA V. HERZOG, Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, D.C. ROBERT L. HIRSCH, Science Applications International Corporation, Alexandria, Virginia... 

Antonia V. Herzog is staff scientist in the Climate Center at the Natural Resources Defense Council, where she analyzes climate change issues and provides information to decision makers and the public. She had been a Congressional Legislative Science Fellow and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. She received a B.A. in physics from Vassar College, a B.Eng. from Dartmouth College, an M.S. in applied physics from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, San Diego. 

Natural Resources Defense Council forms with a professional staff of lawyers and scientists to push for comprehensive U.S. environmental policy, http //www.mdc.org/... 

NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council), The Story of Silent Spring, 2004. Available at http //www.nrdc.org/health/pesticides/hcarson.asp (accessed September 20, 2004). 

Among Dow s best-known efforts is its work with stakeholders on the value to be obtained from process changes that would reduce local emissions. This work involved collaborating with local community groups near its facilities, a national environmental group, Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC), and engineering consultants to explore specific process changes.30 The process yielded several projects that met the criteria of both the community and the company. 

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