EDF Voices: Politics

California’s climate regulations will transform the state’s transportation system and save billions of dollars in health and environmental costs, a new study shows.

With carbon pricing through a federal cap or tax off the table for now, pollution standards for power plants is good policy. An EDF economist gives his view on how to best tackle climate change.

The debate on carbon pricing is missing the point. It's just a question of who pays.

It’s easy to take for granted our right in the U.S. to fight for the environment, but it is a freedom that others around the world do not yet have.

Public understanding of the climate threat has been rising, states have been leading, corporate leaders have helped all along the way. Now it’s time for Washington to take up the issue again as well.

We have an opportunity to address part of the problem by demanding that our leaders take action to reduce asthma hazards – for Latinos, and for the nation as a whole.

I was shocked when I learned the truth. As of right now, there are no national limits on carbon pollution from power plants, despite their being the single largest source of carbon pollution in the United States. With your help, 2014 could see that change.

As the Latino population continues to grow across the country, so does its influence in key political arenas.

All-nighters are usually the result of not doing your homework, but this evening it’s a call for comprehensive action on climate change.

This case is remarkable for what is not at stake, as well as for what is.