Statement of EDF President Fred Krupp

FDA has taken an important step by lowering the IRL for lead. It needs to use this IRL more strategically in establishing action levels for lead in juice and for other children’s foods. It should also use the 97.5th percentile of exposure in establishing IRLs for other toxic elements addressed in Closer to Zero.

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FDA has taken an important step by lowering the IRL for lead. It needs to use this IRL more strategically in establishing action levels for lead in juice and for other children’s foods. It should also use the 97.5th percentile of exposure in establishing IRLs for other toxic elements addressed in Closer to Zero.

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Written by Celerah Hewes

Moms are urging President Biden and the Office of Management and Budget to release a strong methane rule proposal by the end of summer to protect our children's health.

This post was co-authored by Akin Olumoroti, Senior Analyst, Federal Climate Innovation Over the last year, hydrogen has gained significant momentum as a pathway to reduce pollution, create jobs and drive economic growth. Billions of dollars of private sector investment and tax credit support have been announced, and hydrogen build-out is already ramping up. Earlier […]

This post was co-authored by Akin Olumoroti, Senior Analyst, Federal Climate Innovation Over the last year, hydrogen has gained significant momentum as a pathway to reduce pollution, create jobs and drive economic growth. Billions of dollars of private sector investment and tax credit support have been announced, and hydrogen build-out is already ramping up. Earlier […]

Introducing Staff Spotlights! A new blog series dedicated to highlighting our talented team members who are helping advance restoration efforts for coastal Louisiana. This week we are spotlighting Devon Parfait, Coastal Resilience Analyst for Environmental Defense Fund. Devon joined the Restore the Mississippi River Delta (MRD) family after gaining a range of experience in everything from developing media and GIS projects with the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to conducting fieldwork on shoreline change in the Gulf Islands ...

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Introducing Staff Spotlights! A new blog series dedicated to highlighting our talented team members who are helping advance restoration efforts for coastal Louisiana. This week we are spotlighting Devon Parfait, Coastal Resilience Analyst for Environmental Defense Fund. Devon joined the Restore the Mississippi River Delta (MRD) family after gaining a range of experience in everything from developing media and GIS projects with the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to conducting fieldwork on shoreline change in the Gulf Islands ...

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Written by Sarah McBride

Read the latest news from Moms Clean Air Force staff and members in Texas, Arizona, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.

This blog post was authored by Pedro Piris-Cabezas, Director of Sustainable International Transport & Lead Senior Economist at Environmental Defense Fund. Although humans were biologically not built to take to the skies, innovation, invention and science led us to take flight. Through flight, we are connected to an international community. We can hold our loved ones […]

The post Charting a Flightpath Toward Cleaner Skies with EDF’s New High-Integrity Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) Handbook appeared first on Climate 411.

This blog post was authored by Pedro Piris-Cabezas, Director of Sustainable International Transport & Lead Senior Economist at Environmental Defense Fund. Although humans were biologically not built to take to the skies, innovation, invention and science led us to take flight. Through flight, we are connected to an international community. We can hold our loved ones […]

Featuring a foreword from Microsoft, EDF research offers new solutions and approaches to advance and leverage high-integrity SAF

Written by Molly Rauch

The Inflation Reduction Act is just one part of a complex landscape of much-needed climate solutions. One vitally important climate solution still needs timely and urgent attention: reducing pollution from the tailpipes of cars.