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Joint press release from EDF and other leading organizations on the launch of OGMP 2.0 — a robust new tracking and disclosure system for methane emissions.

National Academy of Sciences grant to EDF will support mapping of at-risk facilities and efforts to mitigate pollution through natural infrastructure.

EDF is partnering with Climate Week NYC to deliver a series of events on what countries, and the private sector, must do over the next year to address the climate challenge.

A new collaboration effort aimed to harness the transformative power of new technologies to give people knowledge for tackling air pollution in the Mexican capital was announced today by the Mexico City Government, the Megalopolis Commission for Environment and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).

A study to examine oysters in Myanmar reveals alarming findings: widespread presence of human bacterial pathogens and human-derived microdebris materials.

Good government relies on high-quality, actionable intelligence, especially when resources are strained.

EDF today announced it is joining “RISE UP – A Blue Call to Action” joining dozens of civil society and philanthropic organizations urging governments and businesses to take bold actions to safeguard the ocean.

Study demonstrates the potential for space-based data to drive down global methane loss rates

The Journal of Science Advances found that oil and gas operations in the Permian Basin are releasing methane at twice the rate of other U.S. regions.

EDF statement from Steve Cochran, campaign director for Restore the Mississippi River Delta

EDF press release on BLM waste prevention rule

This network will bring farmers and agricultural organizations together to continue making conservation commonplace.

To avoid the worst impacts of climate change, we need to accelerate electrification of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. Here are the growth trends we'll be monitoring in 2020.

The deaths of Homero Gómez González and Raúl Hernández Romero, activists who protected the monarch butterfly, are devastating, for the human loss as well as the cost to precious ecosystems.

New rules by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have gone into effect on Jan. 1 to increase protections to deep-sea ecosystems by creating one of the largest marine protected areas off the U.S. West Coast while simultaneously re-opening newly restored fishing grounds.

The smart, interconnected grid of the future is within reach, but customers and entrepreneurs must have easy, secure, and meaningful access to energy data.

Elizabethtown Gas agreement sets benchmark as Gov. Murphy shapes Energy Master Plan requiring advanced leak detection

Environmental Defense Fund’s Lindsay McCormick discusses a pilot project to test for and remediate sources of lead in water at child care facilities.

Here are some of the challenges innovators must face when coming up with a regulatory framework that encourages innovation to control methane emissions.

An updated report sheds light on the natural gas wasted on Navajo Nation lands, and offers recommendations for this problem and its negative effects.

Smithfield's grain sustainability interventions as well as their manure-to-energy projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 25 percent by 2025.

A case study about Smithfield Foods explains how supply chain partnerships generate shared value for businesses, farmers and the environment.

This report provides results of a pilot project testing water for lead in child care centers and made suggestions to protect children at these facilities.

By cutting emissions, Smithfield Foods is creating new business opportunities for the animal agriculture industry at large.

City of Mesa Municipal System has eliminated unprotected steel, which is known to be a leak-prone material, from its system.