Reports and publications
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Protecting groundwater quality is an essential component of sustainable water management. However, active groundwater management often focuses on maintaining groundwater quantity – a target that does not always ensure groundwater quality goals are met.
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EDF at the UN Climate Action Summit and Climate Week
Type: Information about EDF
Date: September 16, 2019
EDF will be participating in a number of events during UN Climate week in New York City, September 21 - 26.
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New Strategies for Addressing Major Change in Water Law
Type: Column/Article
Date: September 16, 2019
Article in the Daily Journal by Christina Babbitt about the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act and EDF’s water trading pilot with Rosedale-Rio Bravo Water Storage District.
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Article by Maurice Hall in CALMatters for the five year anniversary of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act on why groundwater and this legislation are so important.
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Innovative state-led efforts to finance agricultural conservation
Type: Report
Date: September 10, 2019
States that embrace innovative new ways to finance on-farm conservation can deliver multiple benefits to farmers, state residents, taxpayers and the environment.
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Car companies want stricter emissions standards. What's the problem?
Type: Column/Article
Date: September 9, 2019
Car companies and clean air advocates don’t always agree. This time we do.
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EPA’s proposal to rollback methane rules ignores scientific evidence, will lead to 5 million tons of methane pollution
Type: Report
Date: September 3, 2019
If EPA is successful in adopting both proposals, it would result in an additional 5 million metric tons of preventable methane pollution annually — more than a third of total emissions from the oil and gas industry.
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Salvaguardas sociales del estándar de bosques tropicales de California
Type: Fact Sheet
Date: August 31, 2019
El Estándar de Bosques Tropicales (EBT) de California ofrece garantías sólidas de salvaguardas a la protección de los derechos humanos y de los pueblos indígenas, así como a elementos importantes de ecosistemas naturales, considerando las buenas prácticas internacionales y que van más allá con requisitos adicionales de verificación por terceros.
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Describes the impact of the Trump Administration’s latest efforts to undermine clean air and add more climate pollution to the atmosphere