Reports and publications

  • Finding the Water

    Type: Report

    Date: October 27, 2005

    This Environmental Defense Fund study describes the environmental crisis of the Bay-Delta and proposes seven ways to find water to dedicate to the eco

  • Incentives for Healthy Communities

    Type: Report

    Date: August 15, 2005

    Suggestions for improving/redrafting San Joaquin Valley air district’s proposed Indirect Source rule.

  • Cleaner Air for America

    Type: Report

    Date: June 16, 2005

    A national program to lower pollution from today's diesel engines will have extensive human health benefits that overwhelm the costs by at least 12 to

  • Resistant Bugs and Antibiotic Drugs

    Type: Report

    Date: June 1, 2005

    Massive quantities of antibiotics are added to the feed used in raising chickens, hogs and beef cattle, which helps spur the development of antibiotic

  • Myths and facts on global warming

    Type: Report

    Date: April 14, 2005

    A vast majority of climate scientists agree that global warming is happening and poses a serious threat to society.

  • Cleaner Diesel Handbook

    Type: Report

    Date: April 1, 2005

    Report designed to empower the private sector, public officials and ordinary citizens with the means to reduce harmful pollution from diesel engines.

  • Trash and the City

    Type: Report

    Date: June 30, 2004

    Executive summary of report showing how a better, more modern system of handling New York City's garbage can cut the truck miles driven by more than h

  • Today’s Promises, Tomorrow’s Cars?

    Type: Report

    Date: June 2, 2004

    Looks back at the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (or PNGV) program, launched with great fanfare by President Bill Clinton in 1993 - what

  • Orphan Chemicals in the HPV Challenge

    Type: Report

    Date: June 1, 2004

    Determining how many HPV Challenge program chemicals continue to be manufactured at HPV levels but remain unsponsored is complicated for a variety o

  • Local mercury emissions in the United States are important contributors to local mercury hot spots, leading to contaminated water.