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A unique satellite, created by a nonprofit to fight global warming, is gearing up to launch in March 2024. Here’s everything you need to know about climate-pollution-busting MethaneSAT.

Air pollution affects almost everyone and carries severe consequences for public health, the environment and our climate, yet efforts to combat it are severely underfunded, especially in Latin America and the Global South. Less than 1% of development funding goes to air quality programming each year. When leaders meet at the Sixth Session of the …

This Handbook from EDF guides readers through key decisions and complex issues involved in creating effective crediting systems for natural climate solutions (NCS).

Environmental Defense Fund works with major food companies for the same reason we engage with other sectors: We follow the emissions. 

For decades, satellites have been beaming down evidence of Earth’s changing climate, with little impact. Space veteran Dan McCleese wants to change that with MethaneSAT, a satellite built for a single, critical purpose — to fight climate change.

Blue foods, seafood and aquatic plants, can help sustainably feed the world.

In the fight against the climate crisis, high-integrity jurisdictional REDD+ is intended to be transformational, giving forest communities and governments the ability to tap into the voluntary carbon market to access climate finance needed to ensure that large areas of tropical forests remain intact.

By Fred Krupp, Manish Bapna and Armond Cohen Originally published in themessenger.com, December 2023 (no longer in circulation).  It’s a make-or-break moment for hydrogen’s role in our clean energy future. Hailed for its potential to flexibly deliver energy without polluting the climate, hydrogen could be a valuable climate solution if we get it right. That’s why the …

By Liora Fiksel, Project Manager, Healthy Communities, and Lisa Lefferts, Environmental Health Consultant What’s Happening? On December 21, 2023, FDA filed a food-additive petition and a color-additive petition submitted by EDF and partners that asks FDA to revoke its approval for four carcinogenic chemicals approved for use in food. There is broad agreement that benzene,

Climate change-driven events—like heat waves, droughts, floods, and fires—cause damage to communities’ and individuals’ health and safety. But these events also threaten the financial well-being of communities across the U.S. through their impact on markets and local economies. Nowhere is this more visible recently than in the property insurance market.  In this three-part series, we’ll …

One year after the catastrophic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, the EPA is considering phasing out vinyl chloride, a toxic chemical the train was carrying.

EDF Statement from Will Scott, Southeast Climate & Clean Energy Director at EDF

Stakeholders across the climate space need urgent help to cut through the noise on natural climate solutions crediting. The NCS Crediting Handbook aims to meet this need by clearly laying out how high-quality NCS crediting can work—for credit sellers, for credit buyers, and as part of an effective and ethical global climate response.

Following the Sackett v. EPA Supreme Court decision in May 2023, millions of acres of wetlands across the U.S. lost critical federal protections they once had under the Clean Water Act The post Our Nation’s wetlands are at risk. So is our ability to manage flooding. first appeared on Growing Returns.

New introductory reference book provides clear and impartial guidance on creating carbon credits for natural climate solutions

Today, Environmental Defense Fund and WSP, in partnership with Climate Power, released new analysis that found many popular and widely anticipated electric vehicles (EVs) offer Wisconsin consumers thousands of dollars in lifetime cost savings.

Today, Environmental Defense Fund and WSP, in partnership with Climate Power, released new analysis that found many popular and widely anticipated electric vehicles (EVs) offer Georgia consumers thousands of dollars in lifetime cost savings.

Today, Environmental Defense Fund and WSP, in partnership with Climate Power, released new analysis that found many popular and widely anticipated electric vehicles (EVs) offer Pennsylvania consumers thousands of dollars in lifetime cost savings.

Today, Environmental Defense Fund and WSP, in partnership with Climate Power, released new analysis that found many popular and widely anticipated electric vehicles (EVs) offer Nevada consumers thousands of dollars in lifetime cost savings.

Today, Environmental Defense Fund and WSP, in partnership with Climate Power, released new analysis that found many popular and widely anticipated electric vehicles (EVs) offer Arizona consumers thousands of dollars in lifetime cost savings.

Today, Environmental Defense Fund and WSP, in partnership with Climate Power, released new analysis that found many popular and widely anticipated electric vehicles (EVs) offer North Carolina consumers thousands of dollars in lifetime cost savings.

Today, Environmental Defense Fund and WSP, in partnership with Climate Power, released new analysis that found many popular and widely anticipated electric vehicles (EVs) offer Michigan consumers thousands of dollars in lifetime cost savings.

Today the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Joe Goffman to lead EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, and that’s great news for everyone

A high-integrity carbon market can play a significant role in reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. But carbon mitigation should not be the only ‘win’ that comes from the purchase of high-quality carbon credits. Benefits-sharing and social safeguards deliver the durability and longevity we need for any achieved emissions reductions.

Scaling up natural climate solutions, or NCS, could help us reach climate goals while providing social and economic co-benefits.