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Whether hydrogen turns out to be a climate Jekyll or Hyde will depend, based on soon-to-be published research by Environmental Defense Fund, on how it’s made and how much of it leaks.

Photo essay featuring residents of Culebra, Puerto Rico, who are teaming up with EDF to install rooftop solar and battery systems for clean, resilient power.

New EDF research explores the demographics of people living near active oil and gas wells

This study published in Population and Environment documents the prevalence of historically marginalized populations (across age, income, education, race-ethnicity, and language) living near active oil and gas wells throughout the USA, at both local and aggregated scales.

The Biden Administration announced several actions tackle the climate crisis, including a “Green Shipping Challenge” to galvanize global action to decarbonize the international shipping industry. EDF's Global Transportation expert comments.

EDF, Allies Support SEC’s Proposed Climate Risk Financial Disclosure Standard

Enteric methane is emitted when ruminants, like cows, digest their food. These emissions are the single largest source of agricultural methane emissions, which makes reducing enteric emissions a massive opportunity to slow warming, today. New breakthrough technologies coming to market are giving companies across the food and agricultural supply chain the ability to partner with …

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Distress over climate change, sometimes referred to as climate anxiety, is hitting some of us hard. Take our survey to find ways to manage your anxiety.

This toolkit from EDF and partners provides information on ways to enhance climate resilience planning by electric utilities.

This report is part of a series of papers prepared by Resources for the Future (RFF) and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). Scholars from RFF and WiseEuropa—an independent Polish think tank—examine Poland’s energy transition to distill lessons that could help decarbonization efforts in the United States and around the world.

Despite widespread commitments among oil producers to reduce natural gas flaring, 2021 saw a net increase in flaring emissions worldwide.

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

Air Tracker is a new web-based tool that allows users to plot the likely path of air pollution 

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is holding a hearing today that will bring the state closer to adopting historic standards that will ultimately eliminate pollution from new cars and passenger trucks sold in California by 2035.

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

The integrity of land-based credits in the voluntary carbon market has been historically uneven. Buyer confidence can only occur with high-integrity credits—in other words, assurance that credits represent documented, actual reductions, avoidance, or removal of GHGs that would otherwise not occur. This integrity needs to improve substantially for these types of investments to effectively reduce GHG emissions or remove them from the atmosphere in voluntary carbon markets.

Credits from the land sector pose challenges for accounting and for meeting multiple criteria. We propose three pathways to overcome shortcomings in the carbon market, improve integrity of credits, and promote long-lasting change to achieve nontrivial climate mitigation and co-benefits from the land sector.

By Ted Kelly The need to replace South Jersey’s leaking and leak-prone pipelines while planning to move New Jersey’s energy system away from fossil fuels became major news today when the Board of Public Utilities approved a settlement for the utility to address leaks in the gas system. South Jersey Gas is now one of …

Pinterest is the first major social media platform to ban content that denies the scientific consensus that climate change is happening and influenced by human activity, raising the bar for other social media giants to curb disinformation. The Climate Disinformation Coalition, of which EDF is a founding member, is keeping up the pressure.

Companies will not be able to meet their net zero goals at the speed and scale required without advocating for climate policy. And professionals within those companies have come to the same realization – the most powerful tool that a company – and an individual– has to fight the climate crisis is their political advocacy.  …

EDF and CCSI’s collaboration builds momentum to inform and engage global investors in sustainable development.

Pinterest is the first major social media platform to ban content that denies the scientific consensus that climate change is happening and influenced by human activity, raising the bar for other social media giants to curb disinformation. The Climate Disinformation Coalition, of which EDF is a founding member, is keeping up the pressure.

A legal loophole allows food and chemical manufacturers to include thousands of untested ingredients to be used in our foods and supplements. EDF and its allies are pressing the Food and Drug Administration to end this irresponsible and potentially dangerous state of affairs.

Last month truck manufacturers, environmentalists and others shared their thoughts on a multi-state draft action plan to spur zero emission medium- and heavy-duty trucks in 17 states, the Province of Quebec and Washington D.C. The plan, spearheaded by the Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management and developed by signatory states, was the culmination of …