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Initiative by EDF maps methane emissions across the Permian Basin and provide data for gas methane reduction opportunities, and pollution.

EDF makes the case for climate-smart fisheries management on release of IPCC special report.

EDF conducted a unique landscape assessment of the market demand for technologies capable of detecting a person's exposure to harmful chemicals.

Pollutants like particulate matter affect our brains' ability to function well in the workplace, research shows.

A warming Earth disturbs weather, people, animals and much more. Here, we explore three critical effects of climate change.

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

EDF believes this process of continuous improvement is foundational for protecting land, water and communities from development-related impacts. That’s why we track what states are up to on a consistent basis. 

EDF's application of cutting-edge research and new Permian data indicate New Mexico’s methane emissions are five times higher than what EPA data suggest

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

Rejection of Post-Hurricane Harvey Air Pollution Monitoring “Part of a Disturbing Trend of Willful Ignorance”

Here's a summary of an essay published in Foreign Affairs on Negative Emission Technologies (NETs), and how they can help solve the climate crisis.

The integration of new digital tools and systems in oil and gas industry operations offers an opportunity for companies to understand methane leaks.

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.

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

During this past year, we undertook a pilot project to tackle the problem of lead in drinking water at child care facilities.

A major reform effort to make one of Indonesia’s most valuable fisheries more sustainable received a significant boost today at the Our Oceans Conference being held in Bali, Indonesia.

With the extreme weather variables we've seen recently, seemingly tiny temperature changes translate into increasingly dramatic impacts on Earth.

EPA released its updated 3Ts for Reducing Lead in Drinking Water Toolkit, which provides guidance for schools and child care facilities.

California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation that will better protect children in the state from the harmful effects of lead exposure.

Mobile unit will measure levels of Hurricane Florence-related pollution in real time.

Study co-authored by EDF shows, for the first time, that a management system which provides year-round fishing opportunities using secure allocations could result in as much as $1 billion per year in additional economic benefits in the United States.

New study including EDF scientists of Europe's largest gas field reveals higher emissions than official estimates indicate, but those emissions are lower than those in North America.

Reporting on the discovery and enhancement of plastic-dissolving enzymes in bacteria and what it means for plastic pollution problem plaguing oceans.

EDF discovered that methane leaks can undo some or all of the climate benefits we think we’re getting when we substitute natural gas for coal or oil.