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Statement of EDF Executive Director Amanda Leland

The U.S. EPA finalized a new rule that will cut pollution from cars and light trucks, accelerating the fight against climate change.

News reports say the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will soon unveil its final clean car standards – limits on climate and health-harming pollution from new passenger cars and trucks and medium-duty vehicles like delivery vans in model years 2027 through 2032.

Under the Paris Agreement, Article 6.2 allows countries to exchange emissions reductions and removals through bilateral agreements—country to country. Despite stalled progress on final details for Article 6.2 at COP28, the mechanism is in operation with guardrails that push countries toward high-integrity programs. New bilateral agreements continue to emerge under the mechanism and mobilize needed …

This blog was co-authored by Janet Zamudio, Western States Climate Policy Intern The last week has been eventful in Washington, seeing the end of legislative session last Thursday and the first quarterly cap-and-invest auction of 2024, which posted results today. With the legislative session wrapped up and budgets passed, we now know what additional spending …

EDF Statement from Kate Courtin, Sr. Manager, State Climate Policy & Strategy

Eleven of the nation’s leading health, environmental and community groups have filed a motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to defend the Environmental Protection Agency’s protective limits on methane pollution from new and existing oil and gas sources against court challenges.

This post was co-authored by Chris Neme, Co-Founder and Principal of Energy Futures Group The concept of a Clean Heat Standard (CHS) is gaining traction in multiple jurisdictions as a way to drive larger, faster reductions in the thermal sector’s greenhouse gas emissions. At least ten U.S. states are considering the policy, with Colorado and …

Statement of Rosalie Winn, EDF Director and Lead Counsel for Methane and Clean Air Policy

By Casey Horan The way charging customers connect to the grid is changing rapidly, especially in states working to meet transportation electrification and decarbonization targets. But regardless of policy goals, most states are experiencing increased demand for renewables accompanied by more customers seeking connection to the grid for projects like electric vehicle chargers, solar and storage.

A new report released today by EDF details how Texas’ $342 million clean air program can be improved to help companies that want to secure state funding for zero-emission trucks. Recommendations include how to improve program design of the grants offered, including how to modernize the calculation of nitrogen oxides reductions to ensure the full …

EDF report details how Texas’ $342 million clean air program can be improved to help companies that want to secure state funding for zero-emission trucks.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission just voted on a rule that will require publicly traded companies to disclose climate-related risk.

Statement of EDF President Fred Krupp

EDF statement of Emily Steinhilber, Director, Climate Resilient Coasts and Watersheds, Virginia

Three new conservation agreements announced today by the Biden-Harris administration will yield up to 400,000 acre-feet of water savings in Lake Mead. All three agreements, totaling nearly $160 million in funding from the Inflation Reduction Act, involve California water districts.

Statement of Sarah Vogel, Senior Vice President, Healthy Communities

By Maricel Maffini, PhD, Consultant, and Tom Neltner, Executive Director, Unleaded Kids What’s Happening? On February 9, 2024, the European Commission published a proposed regulation [PDF, 502KB] that would ban most uses of bisphenol A (BPA) in materials that contact food—including plastic and coatings applied to metal cans—and restrict other uses. Interested parties can comment …

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today took important steps to strengthen safeguards intended to prevent toxic chemical disasters at thousands of industrial facilities across the country.

EDF fact sheet shows Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed pollution standards for new cars, buses and freight trucks would save more than 40,000 lives and prevent more than 25 million asthma attacks.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed pollution standards for new cars, buses and freight trucks would save more than 40,000 lives and prevent more than 25 million asthma attacks, according to a new analysis by Environmental Defense Fund.

By Elizabeth Lieberknecht Texas’ primary oil and gas regulator, the Texas Railroad Commission, took the unfortunate — though not surprising — step last month of requesting legal action against EPA’s recently finalized commonsense methane rules. This is unfortunate because, once implemented, these rules will protect public health, limit climate change and energy waste. It is not …

Joint Statement on the Polis Administration’s Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Roadmap 2.0 from Environmental Defense Fund, Western Resource Advocates and Sierra Club

As the Biden administration decides which sustainable aviation fuels are eligible for new taxpayer subsidies, it must support high-integrity SAFS that meet rigorous environmental standards grounded in science. Details matter and ensuring the GREET model meets the Congressional requirements in the Inflation Reduction Act is critical. We can’t afford to trade one environmental threat for another.

Media statement by Braulio Quintero, Director, Puerto Rico, Environmental Defense Fund and Emily Steinhilber, Director, Climate Resilient Coasts and Watersheds, Environmental Defense Fund