Reports and publications
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Recognizing the urgency of the climate crisis and the significant role of the food sector in reducing global emissions of methane, the Dairy Methane Action Alliance has stepped forward to catalyze accountability, transparency and ambitious climate action within the food industry.
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Meghan Hauser — owner of Table Rock Farm — provides insight into her experience working as a dairy farmer in Western New as part of a series of climate-smart agriculture sessions at Climate Week NYC 2023.
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This report from EDF helps guide through challenges involved in application of process-based models to measurement, monitoring, reporting, and verification (MMRV) schemes in large-scale contexts. It provides important context and recommendations for process-based model implementation in agricultural soil GHG and SOC projects to increase consistency, transparency, and confidence in this integral portion of the MMRV process.
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"Much of the conservation and climate change spotlight falls on tropical forests. Given this, people might forget that forests in the temperate areas — those found in large parts of North America, Europe and higher latitudes in Asia and Australia — also have the power to help limit climate change," EDF experts Amanda Leland and Steven Hamburg write in Scientific American.
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To better understand the disproportionate community health burden associated with warehouses in Illinois, Environmental Defense Fund deployed a peer-reviewed framework called Proximity Mapping. Findings include that at least 1 in 6 Illinois residents lives within a half mile of a mega-warehouse.
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Myth busting 101: Floridians should know the facts about electric vehicles
Type: Column/Article
Date: April 24, 2024
Despite decades of Big Oil lobbying against electric vehicles, consumers across the U.S. are embracing sustainable and affordable transportation at a compelling rate. As of June 2023, Florida had the second-highest adoption rate in the country with EVs representing more than 7% of new vehicles sold. Yet some myths and misconceptions persist, and Florida residents deserve to know the facts to make informed decisions.
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Report published by Environmental Defense Fund takes lessons learned from rising adoption of electric trucks across industries and compiles them into a guide that can help fleets explore their power resiliency needs and the back-up power solutions available to them.
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EDF Chief Scientist Steven Hamburg named AAAS Fellow for outstanding science research
Type: Column/Article
Date: April 19, 2024
AAAS has honored EDF Chief Scientist Steven Hamburg with a prestigious fellowship for his outstanding science research, especially on climate change.
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Issue Brief: The Role of Fuel Costs in Duke Energy’s North Carolina’s Retail Rates From 2017 Through March 2024
Type: Report
Date: April 18, 2024
This Issue Brief illustrates the increasing role that fuel costs, principally natural gas costs, have played in electric rate increases on residential customers in the North Carolina service territories of Duke Energy Carolinas (DEC) and Duke Energy Progress (DEP) during recent years (2017-Q1 2024).
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Natural gas gathering pipelines: Mapping regulatory schemes and analyzing safety data
Type: Report
Date: April 15, 2024
This EDF report presents a mapping analysis that shows representations of several gas gathering pipeline systems in the United States and their federal “Class Location” categorizations. It also presents an overview of reported data on gathering pipelines, including recent safety incidents and their costs.