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

New EDF report outlines the actions Texas can take to spur investment in and adoption of clean, distributed energy resources like rooftop and community solar, energy storage, energy efficiency and demand response.

Wildfire smoke is one of many ways climate change is impacting public health.

This EDF report covers strategic policies that could unlock the wide range of benefits DERs can provide and make them more affordable and obtainable for more Texans.

EDF report on the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a collaboration of ten Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states designed to lower carbon pollution from the power sector by placing a declining cap on greenhouse gas emissions.

List of publications on oil and gas methane facilitated by EDF.

EDF recommends that federal legislation to help the United State achieve net-zero climate pollution by 2050 lock in pollution reductions, grow the economy, and protect vulnerable populations. But what specifically should that look like?

EDF explains how climate change disproportionately hits African Americans and other communities of color.

New report from EDF details climate risks to the farm lending sector and provides a path for lenders to support a more resilient agricultural system.

EDF Testifies in Support of California Proposal to Reduce Air Pollution from Heavy Duty Trucks

Report details dangers of transportation pollution, benefits of zero emission vehicles

Given the COVID-19 pandemic, Iowans face the threat of economic harm and damage to public health from severe storms and other extreme weather events.

EDF Statement from Elizabeth Gore, Senior Vice President, Political Affairs

In many fisheries, many species are caught at the same time. These are called multispecies fisheries, and the fact that they catch many species together, with the same gears, means that the different species are caught at the same rate. The trouble is, some species are productive enough to withstand high catches while others are …

Statement from Daniel Whittle, Senior Director of Caribbean Initiatives

EDF statement from Derek Walker, VP for U.S. Climate, as Gov. John Bel Edwards issued an order committing the state to net zero gas emissions by 2050.

A new analysis by Environmental Defense Fund Europe (EDF Europe) shows that air pollution created by diesel cars is higher at study locations in neighbourhoods outside the central London Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ).

Methodology for new analysis that finds diesel car pollution is higher in neighbourhoods outside city centre. 

Sephora and EDF announce their partnership to advance the removal of toxic ingredients known to cause environmental and health impacts from products.

Statement of EDF President Fred Krupp — August 13, 2020

EDF, Nine States Urge D.C. Circuit to Stop Trump EPA’s Unlawful Delay of Landfill Pollution Protections

Hurricanes, floods, wildfires, heat waves and other catastrophic weather events pose safety, financial and health risks to families and communities.

Solutions are bubbling up from communities across Puerto Rico, which amid a global pandemic, is even more exposed than it was before Hurricane Maria.

Billion-dollar weather disasters fueled by climate change are becoming more frequent and more devastating to state and local economies.

Many Texans are under enormous and increasing financial strain from the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout.