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This blog was co-authored by Kate Roberts. This week we published a new study that combines locations of active oil and gas wells with census tract data in a way that helps us better understand the characteristics of the communities living near them. Our findings support what environmental justice groups have been voicing for years:

 EPA today launched an outreach effort designed to educate and engage stakeholders about a key source of delay in the review process for new chemicals: the chemical industry’s repeated revisions to their applications to manufacture a chemical. These revisions, known as “reworks,” add “at least several months” to the review process, the agency said.

These steps from EDF – focused on addressing environmental racism in beauty and personal care products – guide companies to develop and implement their chemical policies with equity at the forefront.

With so much still to do to slow warming and avoid the worst impacts of climate change, it’s important to fortify ourselves by celebrating wins along the way.

RCAC and EDF are accepting applications for the 2022 Water Leadership Institute in Tulare and Kern Counties

These are the three key things that successful applications had in common. The post California’s new Multibenefit Land Repurposing Program is already oversubscribed. Here are 3 features of successful applications. first appeared on On the Water Front.

These are the three key things that successful applications had in common. The post California’s new Multibenefit Land Repurposing Program is already oversubscribed. Here are 3 features of successful applications. first appeared on Growing Returns.

EDF “Strongly Supports” Proposal to Strengthen Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, Protect Millions from Smog-Forming Coal-Plant Smokestack Pollution

EDF and partners at Cornell University launched a two-part social science study to examine Louisiana residents’ risk perceptions related to coastal land loss and climate change.

Residential Electricity Tariffs:Impacts on DER Adoption and Use

SLOAN Foundation Webinar on Distributed Energy Resources

Demand Flexibility Management White Paper & Rulemaking

The Role of Information in DER Deployment

This blog is co-authored by Taylor Bacon, Analyst, US Clean Air and Climate; Maria Harris, Senior Scientist; and Mindi DePaola, Program Manager, Office of the Chief Scientist. A new EDF report finds that strengthening federal protections for fine particle air pollution (PM2.5) to 8 µg/m3 will have large health benefits and reduce air pollution-related health …

This week EDF published a new study that combines locations of active oil and gas wells with census tract data in a way that helps us better understand the characteristics of the communities living near them.

Think you know the oceans? Seven amazing facts to make you marvel at the seven seas

Photo essay featuring residents of Culebra, Puerto Rico, who are teaming up with EDF to install rooftop solar and battery systems for clean, resilient power. 

Whether hydrogen turns out to be a climate Jekyll or Hyde will depend, based on soon-to-be published research by Environmental Defense Fund, on how it’s made and how much of it leaks. 

Use this tool from EDF to look up population counts, shares, disproportionalities, and significance statistics for all population groups at four different distances from wells and well type (primarily oil, gas, or both).

Whether hydrogen turns out to be a climate Jekyll or Hyde will depend, based on soon-to-be published research by Environmental Defense Fund, on how it’s made and how much of it leaks.

Photo essay featuring residents of Culebra, Puerto Rico, who are teaming up with EDF to install rooftop solar and battery systems for clean, resilient power.

New EDF research explores the demographics of people living near active oil and gas wells

This study published in Population and Environment documents the prevalence of historically marginalized populations (across age, income, education, race-ethnicity, and language) living near active oil and gas wells throughout the USA, at both local and aggregated scales.

The Biden Administration announced several actions tackle the climate crisis, including a “Green Shipping Challenge” to galvanize global action to decarbonize the international shipping industry. EDF's Global Transportation expert comments.

EDF, Allies Support SEC’s Proposed Climate Risk Financial Disclosure Standard