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We are facing an epic twin challenge: climate change and the air pollution crisis. One way we can confront this challenge is by approaching transport solutions with both a climate and clean air lens – simultaneously targeting multiple pollutants that warm the planet and harm our health. Transport, health and climate Transport is one of …

Xingyu Qi graduated from the Environmental Engineering Department of Tsinghua University. His studies focus on environmental ecology and environmental management information systems, including information system design, big-data analysis, data processing and mining, algorithms and modelling for carbon emission, life-cycle assessment research of carbon emission, water and air pollution-related impacts on city ecology. In recent years …

By: Oliver Lord, Head of Policy and Campaigns, and Greg Slater, Senior Data Analyst By incentivising cleaner vehicles, Clean Air Zones are a critical tool for improving air quality and addressing pollution from transport. Clean Air Zones are taking off across the UK – London, Bath and Birmingham have all introduced their own zones, and …

To avoid a future where the health impacts of wildfires become even more devastating, we must take action on climate change now.

EDF believes every community should live free of the burden of harmful air pollution.

This blog was originally posted on EDF Voices.  Residents of New York City and other East Coast metro areas are grappling with some of the poorest air quality in those regions in more than a decade. But it’s not from traffic — it’s from a wildfire burning thousands of miles away. Oregon’s Bootleg Fire has …

Following COVID-19 lockdown measures, many people went from working in offices to being unemployed or furloughed or working from home. We don’t yet know what future working behaviour looks like in the UK, but there are strong indications that many people will continue to work from home, even if there are no longer pandemic-related concerns.

This year’s wildfire season is expected to be brutal, and climate change is making it worse. Here's how to protect yourself when air quality is poor.

New Interactive Map Has Details about Power Plants that Are the Source of Smog-Forming NOx Pollution

This is the first in a series of Global Clean Air blogs on COVID-19 and air pollution. EDF's Dr. Elena Craft examines how the pandemic is bringing into sharp focus the unacceptable health inequities in communities of color and low wealth across the nation.

In addition to dumping historic amounts of rain across southeast Texas, Hurricane Harvey triggered a wave of air pollution.

EDF today announced an ad campaign calling on the Biden administration and the Environmental Protection Agency to make short-haul vehicles cleaner.

Setting standards for the transition of short-haul trucks and buses to zero-emission vehicles can help deliver clean air while generating more jobs.

As we look towards the future, it’s critical to have this hyperlocal data to enhance institutional capacities, build community support and forge evidence-based policies that drastically reduce pollution while building more resilient communities The post When it comes to air pollution in Mexico City, data is power. first appeared on Global Clean Air.

Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, people turned to home deliveries to safely meet their needs, furthering the rise in demand for parcels, and, consequently, an increase of vans and trucks on the roads. The freight sector is energy-intensive with last mile delivery relying largely on polluting diesel vehicles – creating air and noise …

EDF Statement from Elizabeth Gore, Senior Vice President for Political Affairs

EDF joined nine other organizations this week to support EPA’s efforts to undo a Trump-era rule that left millions of Americans at greater risk from dangerous air pollution and more severe climate change.

EDF Statement from Elizabeth Gore, Senior Vice President for Political Affairs

EPA's announcement that it will reconsider strengthening protections against particle pollution is a vital step towards fulfilling the agency’s legal obligation.

The Colorado House of Representatives sent an amended a legislation that establishes an enhanced framework for improving environmental justice in Colorado.

We know that solar power helps replace fossil fuel generation, getting the world closer to the international goal of keeping global warming to 1.5°C. But does it have other benefits? What happens to people’s health if we replace coal generation with solar power? The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is one of the world’s most …

Statement of Peter Zalzal, EDF Associate Vice President for Clean Air Strategies – May 18, 20201

Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY) and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) introduced legislation that will pave the way for clean energy sources to replace “peaker” plants -- power plants brought online during high energy demand periods that are some of the dirtiest sources of energy in America, and are particularly harmful to communities who often live nearby.

California just moved further down the road toward cleaner cars and vital air pollution reductions. The state’s Air Resources Board hosted a public workshop on the development of its Advanced Clean Cars II (ACC II) program last week, where it announced that it intends to propose multipollutant standards that will ensure all new cars sold …

EPA is eliminating a harmful Trump-era rule that would have made it harder to protect Americans from air pollution by distorting the agency’s economic analyses.