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Given the risks of lead exposure, there is a growing need to make lead pipe replacement a national priority, especially among low-income communities.

Coronavirus/COVID-19 is a global crisis.  The world’s airlines are facing real economic and structural threats.  But UN climate action is not one of them.  The Carbon Offsetting and Reductions Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA), adopted by the UN’s International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) offers airlines the necessary flexibility to meet their climate protection goal of carbon-neutral growth even in light of this global pandemic.  Although COVID-19 is driving air traffic downward (and thereby, potentially making it more challenging for airlines to achieve their commitment of carbon neutral growth from 2020), there will be plenty of high quality credits available to help airlines meet their carbon limits in CORSIA’s initial years – and because CORSIA  includes provisions, thanks to ICAO foresight, that give airlines flexibility to deal with the COVID-19 crisis without sacrificing climate protection.  

On the eve of an important decision amid the spreading coronavirus, an analysis published today by Environmental Defense Fund cautions the International Civil Aviation Organization’s governing Council against making fundamental changes that would weaken the Carbon Offsetting and Reductions Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA).

The bill would allow farmers to recoup economic losses in devastating weather years and increase their climate resilience for future planting seasons.

This is a pivotal moment: What happens now will determine whether the world can meet its goal of cutting climate pollution from aviation.

Statement from Daniel Whittle, Senior Director, Caribbean Initiatives, Environmental Defense Fund

Declaración de Agustin Carbo, Gerente, Microrredes, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)

ERCOT releases Seasonal Assessment of Resource Adequacy

Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) applauds the Environmental Justice for All Act.

Letter signed by EDF and 38 other organizations to state and federal lawmakers in New York and New Jersey with recommendations for improving the US Army Corps of Engineers New York New Jersey Harbors and Tributaries Study (NYNJHATS).

Senators Murkowski and Manchin's Bipartisan Senate Innovation Package Takes Useful Steps Towards Smart Climate Policy

We need to make sure improvements happen across the entire beauty aisle, especially where the need is greatest.

Farmers are the original environmentalists. For generations, they’ve tended the land, kept track of its health and put their hearts, backs and livelihoods into keeping it productive. But in an era of climate change and extreme weather events, it’s going to take new allies and new tactics to help farmers in that mission, and the National Corn Growers Association has found an important partner in an unexpected place. In this episode, NCGA CEO Jon Doggett and Environmental Defense Fund Senior VP of Ecosystems David Festa discuss the common ground they’ve discovered in helping growers weather storms, grow their profits and reduce their impact on the environment. They’re joined as well by NCGA VP of Production and Sustainability Nathan Fields.

Today, the Trump Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled its draft risk evaluation for the known human carcinogen trichloroethylene (TCE), which – as in previous draft risk evaluations – fails to conform with the nation’s updated chemical safety law, won’t sufficiently protect the public’s or workers’ health and reverses the agency’s longstanding science policies.

As environmental and energy policies move ahead, experts need to invest in economic data and tools that allow them to conduct robust economic analysis, to better inform policymakers, stakeholders and the public on how to design robust alternative climate and energy policies.

FY20 Spring Special Report

EDF SVP Nathaniel Keohane's response to Governor John Bel Edwards on 2nd term coastal priorities like Climate Initiatives Task Force to reduce emissions.

This is an opportunity for USDA to double down on investments in conservation practices.

EDF, NRDC Oppose Trump Administration’s Legal Attack on California Coordination with Quebec to Cut Climate Pollution

Statement of Environmental Defense Fund President Fred Krupp

Today EPA released the draft of its annual Greenhouse Gas Inventory which includes estimates of methane emissions from natural gas and petroleum systems

Momentum for a clean future is building today after Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) introduced the Clean Economy Act that puts the country on a path to net-zero climate pollution by 2050.

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.

We must meet the growing threats posed by a changing climate with increased investments in technology and infrastructure that will help transition us to a 100% clean economy.

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.