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Flooding caused by these wetter, more intense storms is devastating lives and costing billions. Is there a way out?

EDF is partnering with Climate Week NYC to deliver a series of events on what countries, and the private sector, must do over the next year to address the climate challenge.

Leading businesses are making it clear that we cannot lose sight of climate change that poses severe threats to our communities and economy.

It is more important than ever that the Government gives us the certainty that diesel has had its day. This means ending sales of diesel cars this decade – by 2030 – five years ahead of the proposed target.

The transition away from diesel-fueled trucks to 100% zero-emission trucks is coming, but it has to happen faster. Here's a look at how close we are.

EDF welcomes the European Commission’s proposal to increase its climate commitment and reduce EU emissions at least 55% by 2030 relative to 1990 levels.

Ten environmental groups, including EDF, filed lawsuits against the Trump administration for its rollback of protections from oil and gas methane pollution

The latest report in RFF and EDF’s Fairness for Workers and Communities series examines the potential for environmental remediation and infrastructure spending to help communities transition to sustainable economies.

EDF urges the EQB to advance the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) draft CO2 Budget Trading Program rule, a prudent, cost-effective, and common-sense approach to ensuring durable, real, and sustained carbon pollution reductions in the power sector.

EDF and partners will develop OpenET to enable U.S. farmers and water managers to track water consumption using data from satellites and weather stations.

Statement from Mandy Warner, Director of Climate and Clean Air Policy, Environmental Defense Fund

EDF and Resources for the Future reviewed environmental policies that can support communities affected by the transition to a clean economy.

A new analysis by Environmental Defense Fund Europe (EDF Europe), based on data from the Waze for Cities Programme, shows that traffic congestion is currently increasing in London and it is now worse than 2019 levels outside the city centre. The analysis examines data from May 2020 onwards.

Statement by Eric Schwaab, senior vice president at Environmental Defense Fund Oceans program and interim senior vice president of Ecosystems program

States and leading environmental groups, including EDF, will argue for upholding widely accepted standards that reduce pollution from the freight trailers that carry goods on America’s highways.

Statement of Environmental Defense Fund Senior Vice President Mark Brownstein

Climate Week 2020 sets the stage for a crucial time for climate action.

The devastation we're seeing is largely a consequence of climate pollution produced by burning fossil fuels.

EDF and other groups encourage U.S. House leadership to bring up a DOE innovation package.

Access to voting is not a new issue for our country.

Climate Week 2020 put green recovery on an international stage, and EDF is bringing the right experts to the table to explore lasting solutions. View information on EDF's events.

EDF Statement from Nathaniel Keohane, Senior Vice President for Climate

A new collaboration effort aimed to harness the transformative power of new technologies to give people knowledge for tackling air pollution in the Mexican capital was announced today by the Mexico City Government, the Megalopolis Commission for Environment and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).

EDF report details how lending institutions can finance resilient agriculture to support long-term productivity and profitability.

EDF joined Americans in calling on EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler to strengthen the health-based standard to reduce ground-level ozone pollution.