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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.

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

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.

An Environmental Defense Fund expert joined dozens of others in a packed, all-day virtual hearing yesterday in support of an EPA waiver for California’s Advanced Clean Cars II rule, which ensures all new cars and passenger trucks sold in the state will be zero-emitting by 2035.

Statement from Curt Stokes, senior attorney for Environmental Defense Fund

In an order issued today, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear challenges to EPA’s Clean Air Act responsibility to address climate pollution.

EDF challenges new EPA rule regarding Confidential Business Information.

Foundational Precedent Protects Millions from a Wide Variety of Harms

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejected another attempt by industrial polluters to halt the Good Neighbor Plan, EPA’s vital pollution-reduction standards that protect people from interstate smog.

Leading Environmental Group Files Amicus Brief in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo

Environmental Defense Fund and a group of 13 health, environmental, and community groups are asking the Environmental Protection Agency to protect people from dangerous pollution from fossil fuel-based hydrogen production facilities.

EDF’s comments outline reasons why strong standards are needed and are anchored in law, examine how the Inflation Reduction Act reinforces EPA’s action, and call on the agency to work closely with frontline communities.

EDF, Allies Ask to Join Lawsuit in Defense of California Clean Truck Protections

D.C. Circuit Dismisses Attacks on EPA’s Finding that Greenhouse Gases Endanger People’s Health and Well-Being

What’s New? Yesterday, (March 27), EDF—together with the National Wildlife Federation—filed a “friend of the court” brief in the case of Vinyl Institute v. EPA. We expressed our support for EPA’s authority to order companies to 1) Conduct health and safety studies for their chemicals and 2) Turn over those test data to EPA when the agency …

EDF Joins Dozens of Other Leaders to Defend EPA’s Clean Car Standards in Court

Appeals Court Rejects Challenge to Life-Saving Cross-State Air Pollution Rule

The following statement was issued by Eric Schwaab, Senior Vice President of People and Nature at Environmental Defense Fund, in response to the recent decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to strike down the regulation governing the electronic monitoring program used by for-hire fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took an important step toward slashing a tiny but toxic pollutant that’s inhaled daily by millions of people – soot. But experts say the agency needs to go further to protect the public.

FERC Grants Permanent Certificate to Spire STL Pipeline without Hearing from Landowners, Ratepayers

EDF, Sierra Club Sue Environmental Protection Agency to Protect People from Gas-Burning Power Plant Pollution

Low income communities and communities of color often experience more power outages and service disruptions that whiter, more affluent communities. As utilities transition to clean energy, environmentalists and local experts, like Chicago's Cheryl Watson, are working to resolve these inequities. They're making sure voices from underserved communities are at last being heard in the room where utility regulation happens. 

Low income communities and communities of color often experience more power outages and service disruptions that whiter, more affluent communities. As utilities transition to clean energy, environmentalists and local experts, like Chicago's Cheryl Watson, are working to resolve these inequities. They're making sure voices from underserved communities are at last being heard in the room where utility regulation happens.

EDF, Sierra Club Plan to Sue the Environmental Protection Agency to Protect People from Pollution Discharged by New Gas-Burning Power Plants

SEC’s Proposed Standards for ESG Funds Meet Investors’ Need for Clarity