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Environmental Defense Fund and thirteen other health, environmental, and public interest groups are moving to defend the Environmental Protection Agency’s clean car standards against a legal challenge.

Agricultural methane emissions trace a complex path through the food and dairy industries, but by asking simple questions, investors can gain insight into the enormous opportunities at hand.

Carbon markets and carbon monitoring programs track changes in cropland soil carbon stock over time to determine how agricultural management practices impact carbon storage in soil. Soil carbon stock is typically measured by taking soil samples prior to the adoption of a new farming practice, followed by additional sampling after the practice has been in …

Statement of EDF President Fred Krupp

By Lindsay Shigetomi and Kae Tuitt This week, EDF witnessed the hardworking spirit of the fleet industry at the NAFA Fleet Management Association’s Institute and Expo, where thousands of fleet professionals from all over the country gathered in San Antonio, Texas to learn, share and gain new insights into fleet operations. We saw a level …

Statement by Lindsay Shigetomi, Manager, Fleet Electrification

Global market share for EVs jumped from 3% to 18% in 4 years; costs of solar and wind have dropped dramatically; venture funding has topped $50B for 3 years running, up from $17B in 2020.

To better understand the disproportionate community health burden associated with warehouses in Illinois, Environmental Defense Fund deployed a peer-reviewed framework called Proximity Mapping. Findings include that at least 1 in 6 Illinois residents lives within a half mile of a mega-warehouse.

Two New Dairy and Milk-Sourcing Companies Join Environmental Defense Fund's Dairy Methane Action Alliance

Despite decades of Big Oil lobbying against electric vehicles, consumers across the U.S. are embracing sustainable and affordable transportation at a compelling rate. As of June 2023, Florida had the second-highest adoption rate in the country with EVs representing more than 7% of new vehicles sold. Yet some myths and misconceptions persist, and Florida residents deserve to know the facts to make informed decisions. 

Two high profile studies released this week by the National Petroleum Council paint a portrait of an industry asserting a positive role in the energy transition but struggling to act on what good science demands of it. The studies — one on natural gas, the other on hydrogen — were produced at the request of …

Statement of Sarah Vogel, Senior Vice President, Healthy Communities

A new report released Wednesday, April 24, 2024 by the Environmental Defense Fund traces the growth of mega-warehouses in Illinois communities, driven in-part by the e-commerce boom.

EDF identified 10 cities in the U.S. with the most lead service lines (LSLs) based on numbers reported in 2021. These cities collectively have over one million LSLs, representing 12% of the 9.2 million EPA estimates are in the country.

Report published by Environmental Defense Fund takes lessons learned from rising adoption of electric trucks across industries and compiles them into a guide that can help fleets explore their power resiliency needs and the back-up power solutions available to them.

A chemical company has dropped its plans to burn plastic waste in a small Pennsylvania town, but the industry is still pushing this risky, polluting technology. With the world’s first global plastics treaty on the line, health and environmental advocates are pushing back against the industry’s fake plastic recycling solution. 

The process to make petrochemicals, which are found in everything from plastics to fertilizers to yoga pants, exposes nearby communities to serious health risks, like cancer and respiratory illnesses, says Tonya Calhoun of the Environmental Defense Fund, shown in front of banner on Cancer Alley in Louisiana.

Governments and regulators should recognize oil and gas mergers as an important inflexion point to ensure environmental harm is minimized and emissions are reduced.

AAAS has honored EDF Chief Scientist Steven Hamburg with a prestigious fellowship for his outstanding science research, especially on climate change.

This blog was authored by Francisco Pinto and Rodrigo Bórquez, economists of the Climate Action Teams (CAT) initiative, and by Environmental Defense Fund economist Luis Fernández Intriago. Source: Climate Action Teams Reducing emissions is imperative to address climate change. The mechanisms established in Article 6 of the Paris Agreement can serve as vital tools in …

“An Ocean of Potential” was the tagline at this year’s Our Ocean conference in Greece on April 15-17. The phrase encompasses the breadth of possibilities that the ocean holds for us. It also encapsulates EDF’s approach to supporting climate-resilient fisheries and oceans. What do we mean when we say that there is “an ocean of …

Statement of Alice Henderson, EDF Director and Lead Counsel for Transportation and Clean Air

At this installment of EDF's Climate Tech Convening series, we will moderate a discussion among farmers, research institutions, start-ups, agribusiness, and venture capital firms

Increases in gas fuel costs account for 67% of residential retail rate increases since 2017 in parts of Duke Energy’s North Carolina territory — 46% in others.

This Issue Brief illustrates the increasing role that fuel costs, principally natural gas costs, have played in electric rate increases on residential customers in the North Carolina service territories of Duke Energy Carolinas (DEC) and Duke Energy Progress (DEP) during recent years (2017-Q1 2024).