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EDF applauds the California Air Resources Board staff for proposing to strengthen the 100% pollution-free truck sales target. Now, CARB must vote to adopt the strengthened regulation to ensure that the next generation of Californians won’t grow up breathing the nation’s dirtiest air.

Today, EDF welcomes the Assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the United Nations aviation agency, passage of a commitment to a sustainable future for global aviation by adopting long-term goal of 2050 net-zero emissions goal for international aviation.

EDF statement by Dr. Margot Brown on the Enforcing & Empowering Environmental Justice Act

By Lauren Navarro and Tom Cackette The Advanced Clean Fleets rule is a purchase requirement for medium and heavy-duty fleets to adopt an increasing percentage of zero-emission trucks. It will complement the previously adopted Advanced Clean Trucks regulation requiring manufacturers to sell ZEV trucks. Together the two regulations are the most important means of achieving …

President Biden’s $370-b plan is crucial; it is about US squaring up to threats of climate change, and promoting climate justice.

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

Worldwide Electric Vehicle Investments Will Grow to More Than $626 Billion By 2030 – New Report

This blog was co-authored with William Barber III, Founder and CEO at Rural Beacon Initiative. With the recent passage of the Inflation Reduction Act elevating the importance of state implementation of climate action, North Carolina is well-positioned to make critical progress to reduce climate-warming pollution from the electric power sector. Last year, the state took …

This blog was authored by Alice Alpert, Senior Climate Scientist at EDF. Meaningful methane emission reductions are not only possible—such efforts can potentially have a massive impact on warming. Readily available methods to reduce methane can deliver a whopping 0.25°C of avoided temperature rise by 2050. This year the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

FDA’s approach to setting draft action levels for lead in juice is based on ill-conceived presumptions.

Roya Alkafaji, Manager, Healthy Communities and Lindsay McCormick, Senior Manager, Safer Chemicals Denver Water has one of the most successful lead service line (LSL) replacement programs in the country. Since it began the program in 2020, the utility has replaced nearly 14,000 LSLs—prioritizing lines to buildings serving vulnerable populations, such as child-care facilities. Denver Water …

Maricel Maffini, consultant and Tom Neltner, Chemicals Policy Director In May, FDA decided to allow continued use of nine ortho-phthalates in food packaging and processing equipment but punted on deciding whether or not using those phthalates is safe. We’ve written about the petitions that resulted in the decision, along with the agency’s decision to “abandon” …

As the water situation becomes particularly dire in Oregon's Harney Basin, EDF and Culp & Kelly, LLC have released a new Voluntary Agreements Analysis report to advance the community’s understanding of one potential approach for locally driven water management.

EDF statement from Carol Andress, AVP, Congressional Affairs and Climate Policy

Farms, ranches and forests can get the U.S. 17% of the way toward the national goal to cut emissions in half by 2030.

This EDF report provides the first set of science-based targets for annual emission reductions from U.S. farms, ranches and forests.

Major steps forward by many of the world’s leading economies should be cause for cautious optimism at this year’s Climate Week — tempered with a clear-eyed perspective on the work still to be done.

EDF statement from Katelyn Roedner Sutter, Senior Manager, U.S. Climate

North Carolina is taking steps to ensure coastal resilience following the storm.

USDA awarded $2.8 billion for pilot projects that develop and expand markets for crops and livestock farmed in ways that reduce emissions or sequester carbon.

Climate legislation failed five times before the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act.

EDF’s Climate-Resilient Fisheries Toolkit brings together the best available knowledge, research and experiences from around the world to serve you in your efforts to build a brighter future for the marine environment and coastal communities.

EDF joined the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law to submit letters supporting a proposal from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that would standardize public companies’ disclosures of climate risk information.

This post was co-authored by Caroline Jones, Analyst for U.S. Climate The heat is on in Sacramento. With less than a week left in the California State Legislature’s session (which ends on August 31), a set of potentially game-changing climate policies are on the table. Earlier this month, Governor Newsom released a series of proposals …

Before we go all-in on deploying hydrogen, it’s essential we understand – and prepare for – its potential risks. As hydrogen hub proposals come together, EDF gives nine initial recommendations for federal and state policymakers and hydrogen hub developers to follow.