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EDF science is helping struggling farmers in India fight climate change and grow more food.

Proposed EPA Loopholes Must Be Withdrawn After Science Advisors Find Major Flaws

The country of Belize, a global leader in ocean conservation, today took a critical step by taking key action to adopt a national law to protect its ocean waters from inadequately managed fishing, said Environmental Defense Fund.

PFAS are a class of widely used chemicals that have been found in our food.

Read as EDF works to reduce exposure to lead, arsenic, and cadmium, as these are the heavy metals most commonly found in food.

Congress passed a bipartisan year-end government funding bill that makes major investments in numerous Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) climate priorities.

Colorado moves to advance rules that will curb oil and gas methane emissions.

Statement from N. Jonathan Peress, Senior Director, Energy Markets & Utility Regulation

Statement from Christie Hicks, Senior Attorney and Manager, Clean Energy Regulatory Implementation

The smart, interconnected grid of the future is within reach, but customers and entrepreneurs must have easy, secure, and meaningful access to energy data.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf advances regulations to cut methane emissions from existing natural gas infrastructure.

Satellite is able to detect emissions of methane and quantify them for the first time.

The EPA Office released a report faulting the agency for its inadequate response to the air pollution in Houston days after Hurricane Harvey in 2017.

"COP25 showed that the yawning gap between what citizens are demanding on climate action, and what UN negotiations are delivering, is wider than ever. Carbon markets can help fill that gap by promoting international cooperation that allows countries to cut climate pollution faster and deeper than they can on their own."

Northeast states commit to accelerate adoption of electric trucks and buses.

Automatic cancellation, overall mitigation in global emissions, and Article 6 of the Paris Agreement: an economic analysis.

Environmental organisations and businesses are reinforcing their call for robust accounting rules under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.

EDF's Nathaniel Keohane, Senior Vice President, Climate and Poppy Kalesi, Director of Global Energy Policy on the publication of the “European Green Deal."

New Report Finds Trump EPA Failed to Follow the Law, Consider Children’s Health on Proposed Loophole for Super-Polluting Glider Trucks

Carbon markets achieve emissions reductions at lower cost than standard regulations. These cost savings translate into direct atmospheric gains.

There is a step we can take to have a major impact on the rate of warming now.

EPA Changes Definition of “Ambient Air,” Allows an Increase in Dangerous Pollution

Statement from Ann Hayden about the launch of the California Resilience Challenge.

Fisheries are critically important for nutrition, food security and livelihoods of people around the world. With climate change expected to alter fisheries worldwide, building climate-resilient fisheries is key—read about five pathways governments and stakeholders can take so fisheries can thrive and continue to provide needed resources.

With climate change increasingly threatening key life support systems of our planet, including the ocean, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) today released a new report identifying key priorities for the world’s fisheries to achieve sustainability in the face of rapidly-warming seas.