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EDF study shows urban gas leaks are a climate problem in Europe with a clear technology solution.

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.

Proposed pollution rules in New Mexico must be strengthened to protect the state's public health and climate.

Confronting climate change has never been more urgent. EDF's generous grant of $100 million from the Bezos Earth Fund comes at a critical moment.

EDF and other health and environmental groups are asking to halt the actions the Trump EPA took to undermine our nation’s protections against pollution.

EDF and a coalition of environmental groups and states are fighting the rollback.

Statement by Jill Duggan, Executive Director, Environmental Defense Fund

New paper from EDF and Rockefeller Asset Management offers investor engagement guidance on methane emissions from non-operated assets.

Investor engagement guidance from EDF and Rockefeller Asset Management on methane emissions from non-operated assets in the oil and gas industry.

EDF statement from Colin Leyden, Director, Regulatory and Legislative Affairs

EDF Statement from Jon Goldstein, Director of Regulatory & Legislative Affairs, Energy

Ten environmental groups, including EDF, filed lawsuits against the Trump administration for its rollback of protections from oil and gas methane pollution

Statement of Environmental Defense Fund Senior Vice President Mark Brownstein

List of publications on oil and gas methane facilitated by EDF.

Data is driving action to curb methane pollution, even as the Trump administration seeks to roll back federal methane safeguards.

Persistent emissions problem requires urgent action by industry, regulators

Statement from Jon Goldstein, Director of Regulatory & Legislative Affairs, Energy

Tomorrow the House Appropriations Committee will vote on its FY 2021 Interior-Environment appropriations proposal,.

EDF, 16 States and Cities Ask Court to Require EPA to Adopt Long-Overdue Standards for Methane Pollution from Existing Oil and Gas Sources

Ben Ratner and Tudor Pickering CEO Maynard Holt have a wide-ranging conversation about the investors/ESG, energy transition, flaring, methane and Environmental Defense Fund’s pragmatic approach.

The Texas Railroad Commission should set the goal of no routine flaring by 2025.

Defendants the United States Environmental Protection Agency et al. (hereafter “EPA”) hereby report that on May 29, 2020, the Agency transmitted to the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) a final rule package titled, “Oil and Natural Gas Sector: Emission Standards for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources Review.” RIN 2060-AT90.1 This package reflects EPA’s draft final action on its 2019 proposal to rescind methane standards for new sources in the oil and natural gas sector, the statutory predicate for issuing the guidelines at issue in this litigation. 84 Fed. Reg. 50,244 (Sept. 24, 2019) (proposed rule). EPA has requested that OMB conduct its review of this final rule package on an expedited basis within 30 days. As EPA represented in its May 15, 2020 status report, if expedited review is granted, the Agency anticipates that it will finalize this rule by the end of July.

The EPA today took the next step in its march to roll back key safeguards designed to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas industry.

Statements from Environmental Defense Fund and Healthy Air & Water Colorado

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is publishing a draft rule to further reduce methane emissions from oil and gas facilities.