Restore the Mississippi River Delta urges action for an area of the country vanishing at an alarming rate New Orleans, La. (January 30, 2019) — Every 100 minutes, a football field of land disappears into the Gulf of Mexico. To highlight this national land loss crisis, Restore the Mississippi River Delta will release a commercial during the Big Game on Feb. 3 that urges viewers across the United States to take necessary action to protect and restore an area that ...

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Restore the Mississippi River Delta urges action for an area of the country vanishing at an alarming rate New Orleans, La. (January 30, 2019) — Every 100 minutes, a football field of land disappears into the Gulf of Mexico. To highlight this national land loss crisis, Restore the Mississippi River Delta will release a commercial during the Big Game on Feb. 3 that urges viewers across the United States to take necessary action to protect and restore an area that ...

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Environmental Defense Fund has launched a project with a Houston-based nonprofit and Texas Southern University to bring community-led air monitoring to a working-class neighborhood disproportionately impacted by pollution and other environmental challenges.

Environmental Defense Fund has launched a project with a Houston-based nonprofit and Texas Southern University to bring community-led air monitoring to a working-class neighborhood disproportionately impacted by pollution and other environmental challenges.

At the Baker Hughes GE Annual Meeting this week in Florence, Italy, a CEO began his presentation with this bold adage: “Digital strategy = Business strategy.” Executives on nearly every panel pointed to the digital opportunity. As the oil and gas industry invests in the digital transformation to improve competitiveness, companies should seize the opportunity […]

Written by Dominique Browning

I’ve been trying to stay on top of the extreme weather news—trying to understand just how dangerous climate change is becoming. Climate scientists are making connections between a warming world and frigid temperatures. “What is causing such extreme weather across the United States? The polar...

Press release on Super Bowl ad produced by Restore the Mississippi River Delta Coalition featuring kids talking about protecting their future.

Digital Technologies Enable Methane Reduction Efforts at Scale

Tom Neltner, J.D., is Chemicals Policy Director and Maricel Maffini, Ph.D., Consultant The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has yet to decide three overlapping petitions requesting the agency take action on uses of ortho-phthalates in contact with food. Two of the petitions—a food additive petition and a citizen petition—were submitted by EDF, Earthjustice and nine other public health […]

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Tom Neltner, J.D., is Chemicals Policy Director and Maricel Maffini, Ph.D., Consultant The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has yet to decide three overlapping petitions requesting the agency take action on uses of ortho-phthalates in contact with food. Two of the petitions—a food additive petition and a citizen petition—were submitted by EDF, Earthjustice and nine other public health […]

Three reasons why this wildlife problem is a human problem – one that we can and must solve, fast.

This post was co-authored by Rosalie Winn, attorney for Environmental Defense Fund. Methane emissions from the American oil and gas industry waste valuable resources, accelerate climate change and severely cloud the credibility of natural gas in the low carbon transition. Unfortunately, Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler has proposed to weaken standards limiting pollution from new […]

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