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EDF Joins Broad Coalitions Filing Amicus Briefs Supporting Congestion Pricing
January 2, 2025 | Vickie Patton, General CounselGroups call for congestion pricing and benefits for clean air, transit and traffic to start as plannedMore on:
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Federal Court Largely Greenlights New York’s Congestion Pricing Program
December 30, 2024 | Fred Krupp, PresidentLandmark Program to Reduce Traffic, Improve Air Quality Will Start January 5th as PlannedMore on:
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Environmental Defense Fund Statement On New Jersey's Opposition to Congestion Pricing
December 19, 2024Statement from Andy Darrell, Senior Advisor, Environmental Defense FundMore on:
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EPA Clears Way for California Clean Car Standards
December 18, 2024 | Alice Henderson, Director & Lead Counsel, Transportation & Clean AirStandards Will Reduce Pollution from New Gas-Powered Cars and TrucksMore on:
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Supreme Court Will Not Consider Constitutional Challenges to California Clean Vehicle
December 16, 2024 | Alice Henderson, Director & Lead Counsel, Transportation & Clean AirStatement from Alice Henderson, Director and Lead Counsel for Transportation and Clean Air Policy for Environmental Defense FundMore on:
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D.C. Circuit Hears Oral Argument in Challenges to EPA’s National Health-Based Standards for Soot
December 16, 2024 | Peter Zalzal, Distinguished Counsel & Associate Vice President, Clean Air StrategiesStatement from Peter Zalzal, Associate Vice President for Clean Air Strategies at Environmental Defense FundMore on:
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Supreme Court Will Not Consider Challenges to California Core Authority to Establish Clean Vehicle Standards Brought by Oil and Gas Interests
December 13, 2024 | Alice Henderson, Director & Lead Counsel, Transportation & Clean AirThe U.S. Supreme Court announced that it will not review challenges to California’s core statutory authority to enforce its own vehicle pollution limits.More on:
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Blog post
Confronting aviation’s hidden air quality crisis with real solutions
December 11, 2024 | Pedro Piris-Cabezas, Senior Director, Global Transportation / Lead Senior EconomistBy Pedro Piris-Cabezas and Glenda Chen Airport activity emits a noxious cocktail of air pollutants, including ashy particulate matter, sulfur oxides, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds, hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides. Among them, PM emissions from aircraft turbines often fly under the radar yet have an outsized impact on regional air quality and public …More on:
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Particulate matter pollution from aviation: Effective measures for changing the course of longstanding environmental injustices
December 10, 2024 | Pedro Piris-Cabezas, Senior Director, Global Transportation / Lead Senior EconomistAdopting federal jet fuel regulations to set the aromatic content to as close as possible to 8% can slash particulate matter pollution in the near term, while ensuring adherence to existing flight safety certifications and fuel quality specifications.More on:
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EPA Limits on Climate Pollution from Power Plants Are “Vital Safeguards,” Have “Firm Legal Grounding”
December 6, 2024 | Vickie Patton, General CounselU.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Holds Oral Argument on the Standards Today - Statement of EDF General Counsel Vickie PattonMore on:
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EPA Acts to Reduce Dangerous Air Pollution from New Gas-Burning Power Plants
November 22, 2024 | Noha Haggag, Senior Attorney, Clean PowerProposal would protect people from air pollution linked to premature deaths and other serious health problems.More on:
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Southern California’s novel warehouse rule is reducing truck pollution
November 21, 2024 | Sam Becker, Project Manager, Global Clean Air, U.S. RegionA new report from South Coast Air Quality Management District shows the District’s groundbreaking warehouse Indirect Source Rule is catalyzing hundreds of zero-emission truck acquisitions and, as result, reducing hundreds of tons of health-harming nitrogen oxide and small particulate matter pollution. The report, which charts compliance with the Indirect Source Rule from 2021 through 2023,More on:
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EDF, Allies Urge D.C. Circuit to Uphold Strengthened Mercury and Air Toxics Standards
November 20, 2024EPA’s strengthened Mercury and Air Toxics Standards are achievable, affordable, legally sound, and vital for protecting public health.More on:
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Air Tracker expands to Rio de Janeiro, helping officials enforce air quality standards
November 19, 2024What’s new: At the Urban 20 Mayors (U20) Summit, Environmental Defense Fund announced the expansion of Air Tracker—its cutting-edge air quality monitoring tool—to Rio de Janeiro today. Air Tracker is an interactive, real-time mapping tool that uses trusted scientific models to track air pollution sources accurately. It combines air pollution and weather forecasting to reveal …More on:
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New Air Pollution Visualization Tool to help Rio de Janeiro Pinpoint Hotspots and Enforce Air Quality Standards
November 15, 2024 | Tammy Thompson, Senior Air Quality ScientistEnvironmental Defense Fund announced the expansion of Air Tracker—its cutting-edge air quality monitoring tool—to Rio de Janeiro today.More on:
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Six ways to ramp up climate and clean air action in 2025
November 8, 2024 | Sarah Vogel, Senior Vice President, Healthy Communities2024 has been a significant year for the climate and air pollution crisis, both in terms of the mounting impacts and increased action. Extreme climate events like hurricanes and wildfires devastated communities around the world, forcing the issue to the forefront of public consciousness. Meanwhile countries, companies and communities took some noteworthy actions to track …More on:
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NJ state legislators and residents talk new legislation to limit warehouse and truck pollution at virtual town hall
November 8, 2024What’s new: A coalition of environmental and community groups, including EDF, Clean Water Action and EarthJustice, held a virtual town hall last month with New Jersey state lawmakers and residents to promote pending legislation that would limit harmful truck pollution near warehouses, ports and other high-traffic facilities. Attendees heard from state Assemblymembers Andrea Katz and …More on:
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Why funding to clean up U.S. ports is so important
October 29, 2024 | Phillip Martin, Manager, Zero-emission Truck Initiative in TexasAmerica’s ports are hotbeds for toxic air pollution due to the diesel-powered ships and port vehicles that move our goods from sea to land. This pollution causes all kinds of health problems for nearby communities — from asthma and lung disease, to premature birth and death — which is why today’s announcement from the Environmental …More on:
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Report
Mercury emissions map
October 25, 2024A map that showcases the 2020 mercury emissions from the most polluting coal plants.More on:
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Fact sheet
Meeting the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for Power Plants: Greater Benefits, Lower Costs
October 25, 2024The Mercury and Air Toxics Standards reduce mercury, soot, lead, and other toxic pollution from our nation’s coal-fired power plants.More on:
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Press release
Supreme Court Will Consider Decisions about Interstate Air Pollution Protections from Coal-Fired Power Plants
October 21, 2024 | Vickie Patton, General CounselAction Could Undermine Long-Standing Precedent about Court Jurisdiction for EPA ChallengesMore on:
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Supreme Court Will Not Block Two Vital Climate and Clean Air Protections
October 4, 2024 | Vickie Patton, General CounselJustices Deny Shadow Docket Requests for Emergency Stays of Methane Pollution Standards, Strengthened Mercury and Air Toxics StandardsMore on:
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Sarah Vogel highlights health benefits of cutting methane at Health Forum during UN General Assembly
October 2, 2024 | Sarah Vogel, Senior Vice President, Healthy CommunitiesWhat’s new: Foreign Policy magazine hosted a Health Forum during the UN General Assembly last month in New York, where EDF’s Sarah Vogel explained how methane connects to health impacts. During her conversation with journalist Maggie Lake, Sarah discussed methane’s major sources–agriculture, oil and gas and waste–and its impacts on the climate. She also explained …More on:
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Article
This Pennsylvania steel town is winning at football and clean energy
September 26, 2024The Steelton-Highspire school district near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania is celebrating a new fleet of electric school buses, thanks, in large part, to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.More on:
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Press release
Plastics Industry Bill Threatens People's Health
September 19, 2024 | Joanna Slaney, AVP, Political AffairsA newly introduced House bill would, in effect, carve out dangerous exemptions to existing federal law so that plastics incinerators can operate without meeting vital protections for people's health and the environment.More on: