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As we focus on rebuilding our economy while containing the novel coronavirus, it is critical that we rebuild better — investing to create more good jobs, less air pollution and a more stable future.

Andrew Wheeler took credit America’s relatively clean air without acknowledging that he is trying to tear down the safeguards that created it.

Good government relies on high-quality, actionable intelligence, especially when resources are strained.

America has gone to the polls while at war — and during debilitating economic crises. And this year, we’ll vote in the midst of a pandemic.

EDF Experts at Public Hearing – It Is “Crucial” That EPA Strengthen Safeguards for Soot

EDF filed a brief in opposition to the Trump administration’s lawsuit against California’s collaboration with Quebec to cut dangerous climate pollution.

A three-judge panel will hear oral argument in a case about dangerous, and often deadly, air pollution that blows across state borders. New York, New Jersey, Environmental Defense Fund and several allies are parties to the case.

The Trump Administration declined to strengthen particulate matter standards.

Our travel leaves a trail of carbon footprints. Fortunately, you can lighten your travel impacts on the climate in three simple steps.

Will businesses commit to the decades-long leadership effort required to make a thriving and sustainable future a reality?

The worst of times can bring out the best in us — starting with the air we breathe.

Public Health and Environmental Coalition Argues D.C. Circuit Should Vacate Unlawful Rollback of Clean Power Plan

Undermining the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards a “Terrible Idea” – EDF

Trump Administration Refuses to Protect Americans from Dangerous Air Pollution

EDF Files FOIA Request for Information about EPA Pollution Enforcement Waivers

Solutions for the COVID-19 crisis need to ensure a safer, healthier and cleaner future for our country and our children.

A few months' improvements in air pollution won’t resolve the underlying health conditions that make many people more vulnerable to COVID-19.

VIDEO: New White House Press Secretary Is A Climate Change Denier

Today, the U.S. Senate reached a deal on a stimulus package that includes $50 billion in loans and grants to airlines, but leaves out language that would have required airlines — which emit as much climate pollution as the entire German economy annually — to limit harmful emissions from domestic flights.

Air pollution is now the biggest risk for early death, responsible for more than 6 million premature deaths each year. Here are some of the effects of air pollution.

The ICAO’s governing Council today took a key step to stand up its emission offsetting program to help airlines reduce climate pollution.

Coronavirus/COVID-19 is a global crisis.  The world’s airlines are facing real economic and structural threats.  But UN climate action is not one of them.  The Carbon Offsetting and Reductions Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA), adopted by the UN’s International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) offers airlines the necessary flexibility to meet their climate protection goal of carbon-neutral growth even in light of this global pandemic.  Although COVID-19 is driving air traffic downward (and thereby, potentially making it more challenging for airlines to achieve their commitment of carbon neutral growth from 2020), there will be plenty of high quality credits available to help airlines meet their carbon limits in CORSIA’s initial years – and because CORSIA  includes provisions, thanks to ICAO foresight, that give airlines flexibility to deal with the COVID-19 crisis without sacrificing climate protection.  

On the eve of an important decision amid the spreading coronavirus, an analysis published today by Environmental Defense Fund cautions the International Civil Aviation Organization’s governing Council against making fundamental changes that would weaken the Carbon Offsetting and Reductions Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA).

Federal district court issued an order granting California’s motion that claims CA’s coordination with Quebec to reduce climate pollution is unlawful.