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Reducing methane now is one of the fastest ways to slow global warming in the near term, and a critical part of avoiding the worst consequences of climate change. Agricultural emissions from livestock and rice are approximately 40% of human-caused global methane emissions. At the same time, rice and livestock are key dietary staples around …

Even if we completely eliminated fossil fuel emissions today, global food system emissions would cause us to exceed our 1.5 degree warming targets, unless they are slowed down. We cannot choose between food security and environmental sustainability – they are one and the same. Urgent action is needed to shift food and agriculture from a …

A new partnership will work to reduce methane emissions from production of milk around the world.

By Vrinda Suresh, Julia Mason and Doug Rader  During the last two weeks of August 2022, delegates from across the globe gathered in New York City for the Fifth Session of the Intergovernmental Conference, or IGC5, to develop a new treaty to protect biodiversity in offshore waters, called the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement, or …

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took an important step toward slashing a tiny but toxic pollutant that’s inhaled daily by millions of people – soot. But experts say the agency needs to go further to protect the public.

Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took an important step toward slashing a tiny but toxic pollutant that’s inhaled daily by millions of people – soot. But experts say the agency needs to go further to protect the public.

With so much still to do to slow warming and avoid the worst impacts of climate change, it’s important to fortify ourselves by celebrating wins along the way. Here are this week's good climate news stories.

Atmospheric river, bomb cyclone, derecho, polar vortex, storm surge, thundersnow — meet the weird weather words that climate change is making all the more common.

Atmospheric river, bomb cyclone, derecho, polar vortex, storm surge, thundersnow - meet the weird weather words that climate change is making all the more common.

Strong protections that go further to curb pollution from routine flaring are critical to protect communities and the climate

Statement of Adam Peltz, EDF Director and Senior Attorney for Energy Transition

“Protect our groundwater rights and Texas aquifers.” That was the rallying cry for a group of landowners at a key Texas Senate committee meeting last November on the potential danger of a massive Central Texas groundwater export project. The landowners depend on groundwater from the Carrizo Wilcox Aquifer, which encompasses the Carrizo and underlying Simsboro …

New York Governor Hochul announces sweeping climate and electrification initiatives

(Sacramento, CA — Jan. 10, 2023) Earlier today, Governor Gavin Newsom released a proposed budget for California’s next fiscal year, outlining expenditures on a range of issues impacting human health, education, and the environment. The proposed spending necessarily reflects the uncertainty of California’s fiscal situation but also works hard to “keep promises” and uphold previous commitments, as the Governor emphasized in his press conference.

EDF scientist Ilissa Ocko explains what's fact and what's fiction about hydrogen in the movie Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (with spoilers). 

EDF scientist Ilissa Ocko explains what's fact and what's fiction about hydrogen in the movie Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (with spoilers).

EPA’s Important Initiative to Protect People from Soot Pollution Should be Further Strengthened to Save Lives

With so much still to do to slow warming and avoid the worst impacts of climate change, it’s important to fortify ourselves by celebrating wins along the way. Here are this week's good climate news stories.

As the U.S. works to stabilize the climate and foster innovative domestic industries, reducing emissions from agriculture — currently about 10% of annual emissions — is a critical piece of the puzzle. Yet federal R&D investments in agricultural climate solutions remain 35 times smaller than clean energy R&D investments. Of the limited agricultural R&D spending,

New Proposal Sets New Jersey on the Road to Truck and Bus Electrification

This legislation paves the way for producers to generate additional revenue from lowering emissions and storing carbon, while also building resilience to droughts, variable rainfall and other climate impacts that are already making a difficult profession even harder. 

With so much still to do to slow warming and avoid the worst impacts of climate change, it’s important to fortify ourselves by celebrating wins along the way. Here are this week's good climate news stories.

Six reasons from 2022 to be hopeful about the climate future.

The Inflation Reduction Act is a win for the climate. Here are five more laws from around the world that aim to protect the environment.  

Six reasons from 2022 to be hopeful about the climate future.