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A federal climate law is helping patients use solar power to cut their electric bills and improve their health. 

By Magdalen Sullivan & Kate Roberts As the U.S. oil and gas industry expands, the vast network of largely unregulated pipelines that transport unprocessed natural gas —known as gathering pipelines — has crept closer and closer to residential communities. Most gathering pipelines are currently exempt from regular inspection, which means that leaks and other problems …

Statement by EDF President Fred Krupp

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit unanimously denied an attempt by Republican Attorneys General and fossil fuel industry parties to block EPA’s protections limiting climate pollution from power plants.

Building on EDF's November 2023 Missing Methane report, which explored the oil and gas methane disclosures and policies of the six largest US banks, this report assesses key European banks actively engaged in financing oil and gas. It analyses the methane disclosures and policies of Barclays, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, ING, Société Générale and UniCredit. It identifies best practices with respect to methane disclosures and target setting and makes recommendations for engagement with oil and gas clients.

European banks face significant risk from oil and gas methane emissions in their portfolios. Our recommendations can help banks manage them.

This guide from EDF provides an overview of the methane regulatory landscape and examines a suite of new and revised rules that address oil and gas methane emissions and waste in the United States.

Methane management is increasingly factored into the valuation of oil and gas assets. Investors need a clear picture of updated US methane rules.

Belching bovines are major emitters of methane in agriculture. A new seaweed food additive could help decrease cows' burps and therefore lower their methane emissions

As the world faces growing climate impacts and shocks, the need for a more sustainable and resilient food system has never been more urgent. Last year, the Kansas wheat harvest, known as a bellwether for global agriculture, hit a 60-year low due to severe drought. Record-breaking floods decimated European harvests in the same year.   Climate-driven …

Today a coalition including a local business and three conservation groups filed motion to intervene as defendants in Jurisich Oysters, LLC v. USACE to ensure the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project moves forward to provide critical community protection and vital ecosystem benefits.

Statement from Ari Pottens, Senior Campaign Manager, Canada

Cuba sits at the convergence of the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean. The largest of the Antillean chain, Cuba accounts for nearly half of the land mass of the Caribbean Islands. Stretching for 750 miles, Cuba supports diverse landscapes and seascapes and is the most important island in the region in terms of biodiversity.With more than 3,000 endemic vascular plant species, and more than 160 endemic animal species, Cuba is considered by many to be the “crown jewel of the Caribbean."

Manual de legislación ambiental para la gestión de la zona costera de Cuba

This report gives an overview of Marine Protected Areas in Cuba. The coastal and marine protected areas in Cuba constitute a subsystem within the National System of Protected Areas.

With relations between the United States and Cuba defrosting and investment interest building for the island in the U.S. and beyond, Cuba is at a crossroads.

Coral reefs are some of the world’s most imperiled marine habitats.  Impacts from climate change, pollution, overfishing and resource extraction combine to threaten reefs all over the world.  This is especially true in the Caribbean, where rapid development is underway across the Caribbean Sea, exacerbating the stressors on coral reefs and their related seagrass and mangrove ecosystems.

Ten days of Exploration in the Gardens of the Queen

JOINT STATEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA ON COOPERATION ON ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

JOINT STATEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ANDTHE REPUBLIC OF CUBA ON COOPERATION ON ENVIRONMENTALPROTECTION

Finding Common Ground on Environmental and Safety Preparedness for Offshore Oil and Gas in Cuba  

President Obama’s decision to resume diplomatic relations with Cuba opens up a new level of collaboration and exchange with the Cuban partners that Environmental Defense Fund has cultivated for more than 13 years – while reminding us that the island’s much-needed economic development may also bring new environmental challenges. 

With relations between the United States and Cuba continuing to improve, we knew it was just a matter of time before this new political reality would trickle down to the ocean floor. 

As leaders of US non-profit organizations and academic institutions at the intersection ofscience and society, we look forward to working with you and your administration. Our purpose is to ask that in the first 100 days of your administration you resume diplomatic dialogue on environmental matters with the government of Cuba and reverse current administration policies and regulations that have restricted scientific and professional exchange between Americans and Cubans.

This publication is the product of the wisdom, research, field work, and commitment ofa highly diverse group of environmentalists from Cuba and the United States, many ofwhom have been working together for over two decades.