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EDF Statement from Jon Goldstein, Director of Regulatory and Legislative Affairs, Energy

Introduced by Krishnamoorthi, Cárdenas, Klobuchar, and Duckworth, the bill has a framework to drive down lead, cadmium, arsenic, and mercury in baby food.

Research from Resources for the Future and Environmental Defense Fund distills insights from over 100 policies that can support fossil fuel workers and communities in the shift to a low-carbon economy.

By Mark Omara and Joe Rudek Multiple states are exploring the use of renewable natural gas to decarbonize their gas systems. Renewable natural gas tends to be a generic term that describes a variety of fuels, including hydrogen, synthetic gas and biogas. As we explained in an earlier blog, not all biogas (a biomethane precursor) is …

By Ratnika Prasad The energy transition is accelerating, as social, political and economic pressures build on political and corporate leaders to meet the Paris goal of limiting global temperature rise to well below two degrees Celsius. While carbon dioxide is often the focus, at least a quarter of today’s warming is caused by methane emissions …

Seventeen groups including EDF are publicly calling on the Biden administration to set multi-pollutant climate and clean air standards that will eliminate dangerous particle, nitrogen oxides and climate pollution from new freight trucks and buses.

New peer-reviewed findings show Permian methane emissions temporarily plummeted when oil prices crashed, but quickly rebounded to pre-pandemic highs.

As the largest producers of oil and gas, National Oil Companies have an opportunity to make deep cuts in global methane emissions.

The Biden administration is preparing to announce a new U.S. greenhouse gas emissions target for 2030 under the Paris Agreement — a pledge known as a Nationally Determined Contribution, or NDC — in advance of this year’s United Nations climate talks. Given the last four years of U.S. climate inaction and denial, it is important …

Last month, Colorado regulators unanimously adopted nation-leading rules to cut methane pollution from pneumatic devices, an often overlooked but significant source of emissions from oil and gas production. The commonsense standards drew support from the oil and gas industry and Colorado’s environmental community, and will require the use of modern, zero-emitting components at all new …

Nitrogen balance is a robust and practical way to measure agriculture's climate and water quality impacts using variables that are within a farmer’s control. The post 4 lessons learned from nitrogen balance pilot projects first appeared on Growing Returns.

EDF statement from Colin Leyden, Director of Regulatory and Legislative Affairs

More steps still needed to reduce smog-forming pollution from coal-fired power plants

This fourth report in a joint research series by Environmental Defense Fund and Resources for the Future examines U.S. federal labor programs and policies that can support fossil fuel workers through the energy transition. Wesley Look, Molly Robertson, and Dan Propp of RFF and Jake Higdon of EDF contributed to the report described in this …

As fossil fuel workers grapple with the decline of community-sustaining industries, a new joint report by Resources for the Future and Environmental Defense Fund assesses how workforce development policies and labor standards can protect workers and lay the groundwork for future success.

Statement of EDF President Fred Krupp – March 15, 2021

EDF Statement from Jon Goldstein, Director for Regulatory & Legislative Affairs

Reports indicate that the Environmental Protection Agency will be moving forward the long-delayed assessment of formaldehyde by the agency’s Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS).

Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Lead Senior Scientist. You know how sometimes you know something is going on behind closed doors, but you just can’t prove it?  Well, this isn’t one of those cases. At numerous points in recent years, we heard tell of secret meetings that Trump EPA political appointees were holding with the chemical …

Today Representative Sean Casten (D-IL) re-introduced the Tradable Performance Standard Act, a bill that will significantly cut carbon pollution in the electric and industrial sectors.

A new poll released today by Black Millennials for Flint, BlueGreen Alliance, and Environmental Defense Fund reveals voters strongly support funding the replacement of lead pipes in water systems across the country.

Statement of EDF President Fred Krupp – March 10, 2021

Today, Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) reintroduced an ambitious bill that would significantly cut climate pollution across the economy while investing in mitigation, adaptation and the economic well-being of communities across the country.

NC's Clean Energy Plan analysis shows RGGI as critical to ensure pollution reduction targets while keeping energy costs low and investing in communities.

By Toby Short, Associate Vice President, Federal Affairs. My father and grandparents worked in the textile mills in North Carolina. When those mills closed, the once vibrant towns that housed the mills began to shut down as well.