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Air
- Harboring Pollution: Strategies to Clean Up U.S. Ports: Strategies to Clean Up U.S. Ports By NRDC and the Coalition for Clean Air. March 2004. Print version, $7.50.
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Energy
- Clean Getaway: Toward Safe and Efficient Vehicles By Roland Hwang, Bryanna Millis and Theo Spencer. July 2001. Print version, $5.00.
Purchase | Read Online - Exhausted by Diesel: How America's Dependence on Diesel Engines Threatens Our Health By Gina M. Solomon, Todd R. Campbell, Tim Carmichael, Gail Ruderman Feuer and Janet S. Hathaway. June 1998. Photocopy only, $5.00.
Purchase | Read Online - Fueling the Future: A Plan to Reduce California's Oil Dependence By Roland Hwang. September 2002. Photocopy only, $7.50.
Purchase | Read Online - In the Tank: How Oil Prices Threaten Automakers' Profits and Jobs By By Dr. Walter S. McManus, Alan Baum, Roland Hwang and Dr. Daniel D. Luria. July 2005. Free.
Purchase | Read Online - Lowering the Cost of Play: Improving Energy Efficiency of Video Game Consoles By Noah Horowitz. November 2008. Print version , $5.00.
Purchase | Read Online - No Breathing in the Aisles: Diesel Exhaust Inside School Buses By NRDC and the Coalition for Clean Air. February 2001. Print version, $7.50.
Purchase | Read Online - Risky Business: Hidden Environmental Liabilities of Power Plant Ownership By Ralph Cavanagh, Dan Lashof, Susan Schwab. September 1996. Photocopy only, $4.00.
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Global Warming
- Feeling the Heat in Florida By Jeff Fiedler. October 2001. Photocopy only, $7.00.
Purchase | Read Online - Heat Advisory: How Global Warming Causes More Bad Air Days By Daniel A. Lashof. July 2004. Photocopy only, $7.00.
Purchase | Read Online - In Hot Water: Water Management Strategies to Weather the Effects of Global Warming By Barry Nelson, Monty Schmitt, Ronnie Cohen, Noushin Ketabi, Robert C. Wilkinson. July 2007. Print version, $7.00.
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Health
- Fields of Change: A New Crop of American Farmers Finds Alternatives to Pesticides By Jennifer Curtis. July 1998. Print version, $14.00.
Purchase | Read Online - Hidden Danger: Environmental Health Threats to the Latino Community By Adrianna Quintero-Somaini, Mayra Quirindongo. October 2004. Print version, combined English and Spanish, $7.50.
Purchase | Read Online - Our Children At Risk: The Five Worst Environmental Threats to Their Health By Lawrie Mott, David Fore, Jennifer Curtis, Gina Solomon. November 1997. Print version, $14.00.
Purchase | Read Online - Trouble on the Farm: Growing Up with Pesticides in Agricultural Communities By Gina M. Solomon, Lawrie Mott. October 1998. Print version, $10.50.
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Nuclear Weapons, Waste & Energy
- Does the U.S. Science-Based Stockpile Stewardship Program Pose a Proliferation Threat? By Christopher E. Paine and Matthew G. McKinzie. January 1998. Print version, $3.00.
Purchase | Read Online - End Run: The U.S. Government’s Plan for Designing Nuclear Weapons and Simulating Nuclear Explosions under the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty By Christopher E. Paine, Matthew G. McKinzie. August 1997. Print version, $5.00.
Purchase | Read Online - Explosive Alliances: Nuclear Weapons Simulation Research at American Universities By Matthew G. McKinzie, Thomas B. Cochran and Christopher E. Paine. January 1998. Print version, $10.00.
Purchase | Read Online - Nuclear Insecurity: A Critique of the Bush Administration's Nuclear Weapons Policies By Robert S. Norris, Hans M. Kristensen, and Christopher E. Paine. September 2004. Print version, $7.50.
Purchase | Read Online - Taking Stock: Worldwide Nuclear Deployments 1998 By William M. Arkin, Robert S. Norris and Joshua Handler. March 1998. Print version, $20.00.
Purchase | Read Online - The Rise and Fall of the Third ICF Review: A Case Study of Bias and Conflicts of Interest in a National Academy of Sciences Review of the National Ignition Facility By Thomas B. Cochran and Christopher E. Paine. November 1997. Print version, $5.00.
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Oceans
- Keeping Oceans Wild: How Marine Reserves Protect Our Living Seas By Kate Wing. April 2001. Print version, $7.50.
Purchase | Read Online - Priority Ocean Areas for Protection in the Mid-Atlantic: Findings of NRDC's Marine Habitat Workshop By NRDC. January 2001. Photocopy only, $5.00.
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Recycling
- Recycling Returns: Ten Reforms for Making New York City's Recycling Program More Cost-Effective By Mark A. Izeman, Virali Gokaldas. March 2004. Print version, $7.50.
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Purchase | Read Online - Trash Landings: How Airlines and Airports Can Clean Up Their Recycling Programs By Allen Hershkowitz, Darby Hoover. November 2006. Print version, $7.50.
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U.S. Law & Policy
- After Katrina: New Solutions for Safe Communities and a Secure Energy Future By Kaid Benfield, Sarah Chasis, David Doniger, Albert Huang, Roland Hwang, Rich Kassel, Deron Lovaas, David McIntosh, Erik Olson, Christopher Paine, Brad Sewell, Patrice Simms, Gina Solomon, Nancy Stoner, Greg Wetstone, Wesley Warren, Karen Wayland. September 2005. Print version, $7.00.
Purchase | Read Online - At the Crossroads: Environmental Threats and Opportunities in the 106th Congress By NRDC. February 2000. Photocopy only, $5.00.
Purchase | Read Online - Environment in the Crosshairs: Assessing Federal Legislation in 2001 (107th Congress) By Alys Campaigne, Faith Weiss, Wesley Warren, Tyler Dillavou and Dorothée Alsentzer. April 2002. Print version, $7.50.
Purchase | Read Online - Hostile Environment: How Activist Judges Threaten Our Air, Water, and Land By NRDC, Alliance for Justice, Community Rights Counsel. July 2001. Print version, $5.00.
Purchase | Read Online - The Legislative Record: Environment and the 106th Congress By NRDC. February 2001. Photocopy only, $5.00.
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Water
- America's Animal Factories: How States Fail to Prevent Pollution from Livestock Waste By Robbin Marks, Rebecca Knuffke. December 1998. Photocopy only, $7.00.
Purchase | Read Online - Arsenic and Old Laws: A Scientific and Public Health Analysis of Arsenic Occurrence in Drinking Water, Its Health Effects, and EPA's Outdated Arsenic Tap Water Standard. By Paul Mushak, Ph.D. March 2000. Photocopy only, $5.00.
Purchase | Read Online - Bottled Water: Pure Drink or Pure Hype? By Erik D. Olson. April 1999. Print version, $14.00.
Purchase | Read Online - California's Contaminated Groundwater: Is the State Minding the Store? By Alex Helperin, David Beckman and Dvora Inwood. April 2001. Photocopy only, $7.50.
Purchase | Read Online - Cape May to Montauk: A Coastal Protection Report Card By Carolyn Summers, Mark Dorfman, Jennifer Henry, Hank Smeal, Ariel Spira-Cohen and Nellie Tsipoura. December 2002. Print version, $14.95.
Purchase | Read Online - Cesspools of Shame: How Factory Farm Lagoons and Sprayfields Threaten Environmental and Public Health By Robbin Marks. July 2001. Print version, $5.00.
Purchase | Read Online - Drawdown: Groundwater Mining on Black Mesa By David Beckman, Michael Jasny, Lissa Wadewitz, Andrew Wetzler. October 2000. Photocopy only, $5.00.
Purchase | Read Online - Energy Down the Drain: The Hidden Costs of California's Water Supply By NRDC and the Pacific Institute. August 2004. Print version, $7.50.
Purchase | Read Online - Out of the Gutter: Reducing Polluted Runoff in the District of Columbia By James W. Woodworth Jr.. July 2002. Print version, $7.50.
Purchase | Read Online - Pollution Unchecked: A Case Study of Greene County, Pennsylvania By NRDC, the Pennsylvania Environmental Council, Monongahela Riverkeeper. December 2004. Print version, $7.50.
Purchase | Read Online - Rooftops to Rivers: Green Strategies for Controlling Stormwater and Combined Sewer Overflows By Nancy Stoner. June 2006. Print version, $7.50.
Purchase | Read Online - Stormwater Strategies: Community Responses to Runoff Pollution By Peter Lehner, George P. Aponte Clark, Diane M. Cameron, Andrew G. Frank. June 1999. Print version, $14.00.
Purchase | Read Online - Under Attack: New York's Kensico and West Branch Reservoirs Confront Intensified Development By Robin Marx, Eric A. Goldstein. February 1999. Print version, $6.00.
Purchase | Read Online - Wetlands at Risk: Imperiled Treasures: How a Supreme Court Decision Jeopardizes Millions of Acres of Waters and Wetlands. By NRDC, National Wildlife Federation. July 2002. Print version, $7.00.
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Wildlands
- Drilling Down: Protecting Western Communities from the Health and Environmental Effects of Oil and Gas Production By Amy Mall. October 2007. Photocopy only, $7.00.
Purchase | Read Online - End of the Road: The Adverse Ecological Impacts of Roads and Logging: A Compilation of Independently Reviewed Research By Ayesha Ercelawn. January 2000. Photocopy only, $7.50.
Purchase | Read Online - Losing Ground: Western National Parks Endangered by Climate Disruption By Stephen Saunders and Tom Easley, The Rocky Mountain Climate Organization and Theo Spencer, NRDC. July 2006. Print version, $7.50.
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Wildlife
- Hook, Line, and Sinking: The Crisis in Marine Fisheries By Lisa Speer, Sarah Chasis. February 1997. Photocopy only, $14.00.
Purchase | Read Online - Sounding the Depths II: The Rising Toll of Sonar, Shipping and Industrial Ocean Noise on Marine Life By Michael Jasny. November 2005. Print version, $7.50.
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