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President Obama’s historic decision to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba is expected to pave the way for true environmental cooperation with the US.

Vickie Patton testifies before a Senate subcommittee about EPA's proposal to strengthen national smog standards

Statement of Mark Brownstein, Associate Vice President, Environmental Defense Fund, on New York State Fracking Ban

Researchers Map Natural Gas Leaks Hidden Beneath Burlington Streets

Researchers Map Natural Gas Leaks Beneath Syracuse City Streets

ERCOT Report Confirms Ease to Comply with EPA’s Proposed Clean Power Plan

After going well past their Friday deadline, countries reached a narrow outcome that provides some additional clarity on the path to finalizing a new climate agreement next year in Paris.

West Coast Fishermen and EDF celebrated a bipartisan victory today, as the Revitalizing the Economy of Fisheries in the Pacific Act passed in the Senate.

Technology form FLIR makes fugitive methane emissions look very much like an oil spill in the sky. The technology makes invisible pollution visible.

Wyoming AQPD Approves rules to limit oil and gas air pollution

Leading national and local conservation groups released a report outlining 19 priority projects for restoring the Mississippi River Delta following the Gulf oil disaster.

Listing delay increases urgency to get good conservation in place, fast

EDF Praises Western Governors’ Recognition of Need to Reduce Methane Emissions

Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) today hailed President Obama’s decision to name Dr. Jane Lubchenco as the Department of State’s first U.S. Science Envoy for the Ocean. The move signals th

Nilda Mesa to Helm Mayor’s Newly Created Office of Sustainability

New UN study suggests that protecting the vast carbon stores in the Amazon, totaling 55% of the Amazon, is critical to the stability of the global climate.

Delegates meeting in Lima, Peru for this year’s United Nations climate conference (COP-20) will be seeking to build on global momentum created in 2014.

RESTORE Council releases list of Gulf restoration proposals, conservation groups say Council should select projects that provide maximum benefit to Gulf Coast ecosystem

EPA unveiled a proposal to update our national air quality standards for ground-level ozone, which is more commonly known as smog.

Supreme Court Will Hear Appeal of Mercury and Air Toxics Standards

The Florida Public Service Commission, the agency charged with regulating utilities in the Sunshine State, this week terminated a program that provided incentives to customers for purchasi

Senators Whitehouse and Schatz Take Action on Climate Change EDF Praises Leadership to Reduce Greenhouse Gases

Senate votes against the Keystone pipeline

Statement from Jim Marston, Director of EDF’s Texas Office

EPA Strengthens Methane Reporting Requirements for the Oil and Gas Industry