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EDF Statement by Amanda Leland, Executive Director

EDF fact sheet summarizing approaches for financing nature-based solutions for the specific SOE (slow onset event) of biodiversity loss.

Scientists have amassed an overwhelming amount of evidence that humans are the main cause of climate change. Here are 9 ways the evidence stacks up.

Learn more about prebunking, a key strategy to combat online misinformation before it spreads.

Recognizing the urgency of the climate crisis and the significant role of the food sector in reducing global emissions of methane, the Dairy Methane Action Alliance has stepped forward to catalyze accountability, transparency and ambitious climate action within the food industry.

Meghan Hauser — owner of Table Rock Farm — provides insight into her experience working as a dairy farmer in Western New as part of a series of climate-smart agriculture sessions at Climate Week NYC 2023.

This report from EDF helps guide through challenges involved in application of process-based models to measurement, monitoring, reporting, and verification (MMRV) schemes in large-scale contexts. It provides important context and recommendations for process-based model implementation in agricultural soil GHG and SOC projects to increase consistency, transparency, and confidence in this integral portion of the MMRV process.

"Much of the conservation and climate change spotlight falls on tropical forests. Given this, people might forget that forests in the temperate areas — those found in large parts of North America, Europe and higher latitudes in Asia and Australia — also have the power to help limit climate change," EDF experts Amanda Leland and Steven Hamburg write in Scientific American.

Statement from Ted Kelly, EDF Senior Attorney for Federal Energy

To better understand the disproportionate community health burden associated with warehouses in Illinois, Environmental Defense Fund deployed a peer-reviewed framework called Proximity Mapping. Findings include that at least 1 in 6 Illinois residents lives within a half mile of a mega-warehouse.

EDF identified 10 cities in the U.S. with the most lead service lines (LSLs) based on numbers reported in 2021. These cities collectively have over one million LSLs, representing 12% of the 9.2 million EPA estimates are in the country.

Report published by Environmental Defense Fund takes lessons learned from rising adoption of electric trucks across industries and compiles them into a guide that can help fleets explore their power resiliency needs and the back-up power solutions available to them.

The process to make petrochemicals, which are found in everything from plastics to fertilizers to yoga pants, exposes nearby communities to serious health risks, like cancer and respiratory illnesses, says Tonya Calhoun of the Environmental Defense Fund, shown in front of banner on Cancer Alley in Louisiana.

This Issue Brief illustrates the increasing role that fuel costs, principally natural gas costs, have played in electric rate increases on residential customers in the North Carolina service territories of Duke Energy Carolinas (DEC) and Duke Energy Progress (DEP) during recent years (2017-Q1 2024).

The number of liquid natural gas export terminals along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas is growing. President Biden has issued a temporary pause on approvals for new facilities to better assess the risks they pose to climate and the health of local communities. 

This EDF report presents a mapping analysis that shows representations of several gas gathering pipeline systems in the United States and their federal “Class Location” categorizations. It also presents an overview of reported data on gathering pipelines, including recent safety incidents and their costs.

Cuba is in the midst of an economic and energy crisis, but with domestic action and international support, there is opportunity for change. This report by EDF and the Columbia Sabin Center for Climate Change Law presents the current context and recommendations for improvements over the short, medium and long-term.

Report produced by EDF provides guidelines for developing strategies, plans, measures and metrics that will ensure a fair and equitable transition towards cleaner energy sources. It also provides guidance on how to measure whether activities uphold decarbonization benefits, environmental rights and the interests of impacted stakeholders, including Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities.

Report from EDF and Deloitte examines the role of key greenhouse gases, identifies primary drivers of emissions, and recommends potential abatement solutions for six primary Forest, Land, and Agriculture (FLAG commodities – beef, dairy, chicken, corn, soy, and wheat in an effort to help companies develop plans to work towards achieving the target reductions.

Nearly two years ago, the U.S. secured historic investments from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and CHIPS and Science Act. This clean energy plan supports all the hard work being done to strengthen technology and pollution standards to advance environmental justice and health equity at all levels. It takes everyone, individuals, our elected leaders, industry and all levers of government protections to address these challenges meaningfully.

This collection of blog posts by EDF experts on flood resilience is featured in EDF’s Growing Returns blog, which focuses on building resilient land and water systems that allow people and nature to prosper in a changing climate.

Developed in partnership with the African American Mayors Association (AAMA) and Elemental Accelerator, the Toolkit for Local Climate Action is a roadmap for developing robust climate action plans and seizing funding opportunities to address critical infrastructure and economic needs.

Climate change is making flooding from rivers, rain and the ocean more destructive. We’re bringing natural flooding solutions to communities along the East and Gulf coasts of the U.S., the Mississippi River area and the Caribbean.

Next time you find yourself looking up driving directions on your phone, scroll over to central California and zoom out a bit. Turn on the satellite layer. What you’ll see is a mindboggling patchwork. A massive brown and green checkerboard, cut up in rectangles, sliced by highways, besieged by a ring of arid foothills. This …

Methane is a potent climate pollutant. To help speed reductions, EDF scientists have conducted extensive research on methane and its impact on the climate.