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Statement of Adam Peltz, EDF Director and Senior Attorney for Energy Transition

New York Governor Hochul announces sweeping climate and electrification initiatives

(Sacramento, CA — Jan. 10, 2023) Earlier today, Governor Gavin Newsom released a proposed budget for California’s next fiscal year, outlining expenditures on a range of issues impacting human health, education, and the environment. The proposed spending necessarily reflects the uncertainty of California’s fiscal situation but also works hard to “keep promises” and uphold previous commitments, as the Governor emphasized in his press conference.

EPA’s Important Initiative to Protect People from Soot Pollution Should be Further Strengthened to Save Lives

New Proposal Sets New Jersey on the Road to Truck and Bus Electrification

This legislation paves the way for producers to generate additional revenue from lowering emissions and storing carbon, while also building resilience to droughts, variable rainfall and other climate impacts that are already making a difficult profession even harder. 

Statement of Elizabeth Gore, EDF Senior Vice President for Political Affairs

U.S. Postal Service Makes the Right Choice for America's Future with Clean Vehicles

EDF Welcomes EPA’s Important Clean Trucks Plan and Urges Swift Action

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) signed the Record of Decision approving permits for the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion. Backed by decades of inn

Statement from Mary Barber, Director, State Affairs at Environmental Defense Fund

EDF statement from Eric Schwaab, Senior Vice President for People and Nature and Qin Hu, Vice President EDF China

As communities across the country face growing threats from climate change, Congress passed legislation that would provide directives and funding for criti

Statement of Elizabeth Gore, EDF Senior Vice President for Political Affairs

EDF statement from Katelyn Roedner Sutter, California State Director

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

At Environmental Defense Fund, we know that a diverse team is necessary to ensure a vital Earth for everyone – and that diversity on its own is not enough.

The “Keeping Florida, Florida” video series highlights opportunities to build climate resilience throughout the state from current efforts in Tampa Bay

Last January, FBN and EDF launched the $25 million RAF pilot program and provided nearly 50 farmers with seasonal lines of credit of up to $5 million. EDF provides oversight related to the environmental criteria required for RAF eligibility. RAF will double in size to $50 million in operating lines for the coming season and anticipates originating up to $1 billion in climate-smart operating lines over the next five years.

Sustainable seafood grown in United States federal waters is one step closer to being on the menu today as Congress considers a new bipartisan measure — the Science-based Equitable Aquaculture Food Act, or SEAfood Act.

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

EDF statement by Sepp Haukebo, Senior Manager, Global Fisheries Initiative

EDF Granted Consultative Status at UN’s International Maritime Organization

New Report Is a Blueprint for Cleaner, More Equitable Energy to Heat Massachusetts

New Report Is a Blueprint for Cleaner, More Equitable Energy to Heat Massachusetts