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A new study jointly sponsored by EDF and Clean Air Task Force shows how California can affordably and reliably eliminate carbon emissions from its electric grid by 2045.

Joint resolution will restore pollution protections and set the stage for sensible new standards that all sides agree are needed.

In this culminating report, EDF and Resources for the Future condense lessons across four previous reports that can inform federal policy for supporting U.S. fossil fuel workers and communities in the shift to a clean economy. Wesley Look, Daniel Raimi, Molly Robertson, and Dan Propp of RFF and Jake Higdon of EDF contributed to the …

Joanna Slaney, Legislative Director, and Sam Lovell, Project Manager. As Congress looks to various infrastructure priorities in the coming months to get the country back on track, funding replacement of lead pipes should be an essential part of that effort. Recent polling from Black Millennials for Flint, BlueGreen Alliance and EDF demonstrates that there is …

EDF Statement from Jon Goldstein, Director of Regulatory and Legislative Affairs, Energy

In an underregulated marketplace, the beauty industry needs to champion credible and transparent clean beauty programs.

EDF's Clean Beauty Roadmap for Retailers gives brands the ground rules for executing a responsible and credible clean beauty program, with a focus on ingredient safety.

As our nation moves to electrify our transportation fleet and cut climate pollution, developing the charging infrastructure to support these vehicles is critical.

Introduced by Krishnamoorthi, Cárdenas, Klobuchar, and Duckworth, the bill has a framework to drive down lead, cadmium, arsenic, and mercury in baby food.

Research from Resources for the Future and Environmental Defense Fund distills insights from over 100 policies that can support fossil fuel workers and communities in the shift to a low-carbon economy.

A Review of Federal Policy Options and Principles for a Just Transition in the United States

By Mark Omara and Joe Rudek Multiple states are exploring the use of renewable natural gas to decarbonize their gas systems. Renewable natural gas tends to be a generic term that describes a variety of fuels, including hydrogen, synthetic gas and biogas. As we explained in an earlier blog, not all biogas (a biomethane precursor) is …

By Ratnika Prasad The energy transition is accelerating, as social, political and economic pressures build on political and corporate leaders to meet the Paris goal of limiting global temperature rise to well below two degrees Celsius. While carbon dioxide is often the focus, at least a quarter of today’s warming is caused by methane emissions …

Three detailed models of the future of California’s power system, developed by EDF and partners, all show that California needs carbon-free electricity sources that don’t depend on the weather.

Seventeen groups including EDF are publicly calling on the Biden administration to set multi-pollutant climate and clean air standards that will eliminate dangerous particle, nitrogen oxides and climate pollution from new freight trucks and buses.

New peer-reviewed findings show Permian methane emissions temporarily plummeted when oil prices crashed, but quickly rebounded to pre-pandemic highs.

Environmental Defense Fund and the Clean Air Task Force convened three groups of energy system experts to model California’s electricity system in order to figure out how the state might meet goals for affordable, clean, and reliable electricity.

As an organization with an office and beloved colleagues in Boulder, Colorado, Environmental Defense Fund is anguished by the slaughter of ten people at a local grocery store there.

Companies are vastly behind in making progress on sustainability according the Business of Fashion's Sustainability Index.

EDF and Resources for the Future condense lessons from over 100 federal policies for fossil fuel workers and communities in the shift to a clean economy.

Environmental Defense Fund Europe commissioned Centric Lab to undertake a health assessment of the Red Routes network. This data matrix is part of the assessment.

As the largest producers of oil and gas, National Oil Companies have an opportunity to make deep cuts in global methane emissions.

World Water Day is a time to come together as a global community to reflect on the importance of water and its value to people and ecosystems — to celebrate collective victories advancing water stewardship and to draw attention to the change still needed. Nearly 1 million people lack access to clean, safe and affordable …

The Biden administration is preparing to announce a new U.S. greenhouse gas emissions target for 2030 under the Paris Agreement — a pledge known as a Nationally Determined Contribution, or NDC — in advance of this year’s United Nations climate talks. Given the last four years of U.S. climate inaction and denial, it is important …

Former NOAA Administrator and EDF board member appointed to White House Office of Science and Technology Policy