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EDF statement from Sarah Vogel, Senior Vice President, Healthy Communities and Elena Craft, Associate Vice President, Climate and Health

Statement from Environmental Defense Fund President Fred Krupp

It is crucial to keep up the momentum on climate policy and continue to apply pressure on our elected leaders to equitably confront climate change.

We're making our presence felt at an event that you’ve likely never heard of, in a place environmentalists are rarely seen — the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference. Here's why.

California’s electric grid is amongst the cleanest in the country, and it’s getting even cleaner. A new report launched by EDF and Clean Air Task Force contains a set of recommendations on how we can grow the electric grid.

In the intense August heat of Sacramento, the California Legislature wrapped another year of policymaking. The second year of the 2021-2022 legislative session included some significant wins on long-term climate ambition, environmental justice, and clean transportation investments, even as the state fell short in drought response and near-term climate goals. These achievements, coupled with the …

Statement from Texas House Transportation Chair and EDF Texas

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives were targets of a sham ad campaign designed to kill the Inflation Reduction Act. 

Though trucks and buses only comprise about 6% of vehicles on North Carolina roads, they’re responsible for more than 60% of the sector’s air pollution.

Appeals Court Upholds Use of Best Available Science to Quantify Costs of Climate Pollution Damage

EDF calls on the North Carolina Utilities Commission to develop a plan that leverages renewable energy and battery storage to improve affordability, promote equity, reduce pollution, and meet the goals of House Bill 951.

Environmental Defense Fund names Katelyn Roedner Sutter as California State Director

By: Katelyn Roedner Sutter and Michael Colvin This past summer, Californians have been hit hard by inflation: rising food costs, utility bills and nowhere more obviously than at the gas pump. The cost to fill up a tank has many potential causes and lots of experts are weighing in — see here, here and here.

EDF applauds the California Air Resources Board staff for proposing to strengthen the 100% pollution-free truck sales target. Now, CARB must vote to adopt the strengthened regulation to ensure that the next generation of Californians won’t grow up breathing the nation’s dirtiest air.

Today, EDF welcomes the Assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the United Nations aviation agency, passage of a commitment to a sustainable future for global aviation by adopting long-term goal of 2050 net-zero emissions goal for international aviation.

EDF statement by Dr. Margot Brown on the Enforcing & Empowering Environmental Justice Act

EDF, Sierra Club Plan to Sue the Environmental Protection Agency to Protect People from Pollution Discharged by New Gas-Burning Power Plants

Illinois Commerce Commission Votes Will Help Ensure More Reliable, Affordable, Equitable Electric Service in the State

Worldwide Electric Vehicle Investments Will Grow to More Than $626 Billion By 2030 – New Report

An archived list of federal clean cars rollback cases.

An archived list of D.C. Circuit cases on state authority.

Maricel Maffini, consultant and Tom Neltner, Chemicals Policy Director In May, FDA decided to allow continued use of nine ortho-phthalates in food packaging and processing equipment but punted on deciding whether or not using those phthalates is safe. We’ve written about the petitions that resulted in the decision, along with the agency’s decision to “abandon” …

Tom Neltner, Senior Director, Safer Chemicals For the eighth year in a row, consumers rated chemicals as their top food safety concern according to the annual industry survey of consumer perspectives on food issues. In the survey conducted in March 2022, 48% of consumers rated chemicals as their top category of food safety concern – …

EDF statement on the creation of the new Office of Environmental Justice at EPA

Chemicals linked to infertility and birth defects also linked to preterm birth. EDF and its allies are calling on the FDA to withdraw its approval of the phthalates it allows in food handling equipment and food packaging.