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Environmental Defense Fund filed a FOIA lawsuit today about the Trump EPA's polluter passes

Happy Earth week! I hope everyone has had time to celebrate our planet this week, and the great work this community does to protect it.

California’s clean car protections have saved hundreds of lives, have provided enormous health benefits, and have saved families money.

Despite Trump administration efforts to shut down congestion pricing, New York City’s traffic and pollution reduction program is already improving commutes, reducing accidents and helping kids get to school on time.  

For Earth Day, we hit the streets to find out how you’d answer this question.

By Madeline Thompson, EDF Legal and Regulatory Intern Energy affordability has become a major concern for customers as utility rates rise across the country. Since 2001, the average cost of electricity per kilowatt has nearly doubled for residential customers, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Low-income households are facing the brunt of this burden.

President Trump's executive order threatens the sustainability of American fisheries.

Despite all the talk about strengthening American manufacturing, the Trump administration is determined to weaken an area where manufacturing is growing: clean energy.

By Kristina Mohlin  The global energy transition continues to accelerate. While challenges remain, the European Union is taking bold steps to lead the way. One of its most important moves: The Methane Regulation — an ambitious, first-of-its-kind framework that positions the EU as a global standard-setter for curbing methane emissions from fossil fuels, including those tied …

Crucial environmental protections are under attack. You can help defend them.

A workshop equipped Kenyan Indigenous and local community leaders with essential tools and knowledge to effectively engage in carbon markets. The post Empowering Indigenous Voices: Bridging government, communities, and carbon markets in Kenya appeared first on Climate 411.

Statement of EDF California State Director Katelyn Roedner Sutter on today’s joint announcement to seek an extension of the Cap-and-Trade program

The Trump administration is proposing to end most climate research conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The Senate's Fix Our Forest Act proposal will expedite forest restoration and management in the most threatened landscapes.

According to news reports, the Environmental Protection Agency is planning to eviscerate the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program

Statement from Natacha Stamatiou, IMO GHG and Delegation Lead and Angie Farrag-Thibault, Vice President, Global Transport at Environmental Defense Fund

The Trump Administration EPA is offering to help some of the nation's biggest polluters dodge clean air standards. Environmental Defense Fund and others have determined that more than 500 facilities could take advantage of this free pass to pollute.

By Ilissa Ocko, Senior Climate Scientist, Spark Climate Solutions; and Sofia Esquivel Elizondo, Low Carbon Energy Scientist, EDF It’s no secret that there are big ambitions for hydrogen as a climate solution. Many champions of proposed hydrogen infrastructure argue that it’s a viable swap to move hydrogen through vast networks of existing natural gas systems.

States have broad and bedrock authority to protect people from pollution – and President Trump’s Executive Order issued yesterday instructing the Attorney General of the United States to interfere with foundational state prerogatives to protect people from harm cannot change that. The Executive Order was one of four the President signed yesterday. It is revealing …

Coal use has declined because of the high cost of operating coal plants, and no Executive Orders will change that market reality.

As extreme weather events increase from warming weather due to climate change, people across the U.S. and the world are being forced to leave their homes. 

EDF and other groups released a new analysis documenting the industrial facilities that the Trump EPA has invited to ask for a pass from pollution laws

This post was co-authored by Environmental Defense Fund economist Luis Fernández Intriago and Senior Manager of Economics and Policy Analysis on EDF’s Economics team Maureen Lackner.  Texas has a huge problem with inactive oil and gas wells. Inactive wells account for 21% of all wells in the state and represent a potentially enormous $15.5 billion …

EDF Statement of Joanna Slaney, Associate Vice President, Political Affairs

Senate parliamentarian confirms that waivers allowing California to implement protective vehicle standards are not subject to the Congressional Review Act