Complete list of press releases

(SACRAMENTO – October 10, 2017) Two California Energy Commission leaders made an unexpected statement last week, recommending the state reject the proposed Puente Power Project. The proposed 262 megawatt gas-fired power plant was set to replace two existing plants in Oxnard, California – a project environmental justice advocates, local residents, and the City of Oxnard have been fighting for the past three years due to environmental hazards. A study by California’s grid operator in August found the proposed gas plant could feasibly be replaced by renewable sources like solar power, demand response, and energy storage.     

“By questioning the necessity of the Puente plant and pointing to cleaner alternatives, Commissioners Douglas and Scott are ushering in a monumental shift in California energy policy. Rejecting Puente would give families cleaner energy choices and signal a new approach to energy siting in disadvantaged communities, where people are often especially vulnerable to pollution’s effects. We urge the full Energy Commission to grant the people of Oxnard the healthy energy future they deserve.”

•  Quentin Foster, Director, California Climate

“Wildfires have burned a deadly path through California, devastating urban and rural communities and destroying a wide swath of farmland and wildlife habitat in both the Northern and Southern parts of the state. Severe smoke is posing a serious health risk to millions of Californians.  

“Environmental Defense Fund expresses profound sympathy for those affected. Our California offices are within close proximity to some of the fires. Many of us live, work and play in the affected areas, and many have loved ones who have lost their livelihoods, their properties, even their lives.

“In these moments of crisis we need unity and collaboration. The effects of the fires on our communities and our agricultural economy will be felt for years to come. While the fires still burn, we send our thoughts and prayers to the families and businesses affected and the firefighters who are the best hope of saving lives.  

“As the urgency turns toward rebuilding, Environmental Defense Fund will be there. EDF staff members in California are already organizing a relief effort, and we will work with our partners as the recovery unfolds. We know that our changing climate has accelerated the frequency and severity of extreme events. I am grateful to all of our partners – ranchers, farmers, policymakers, business leaders – who are working to strengthen human and natural system resilience and reduce climate pollution. We are in this together.”

            - Fred Krupp, president, Environmental Defense Fund

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Today EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt announced the Trump administration’s decision to cancel the Clean Power Plan, retreating on America’s commitment to deal with climate change, abdicating our global leadership, and removing our only national limits on carbon pollution from power plants. According to reports, the Administration is offering no replacement plan to reduce this pollution, which is required by law.

“This is a reckless retreat that will hurt our children and grandchildren. The real world results will be more asthma attacks, more health problems, more air pollution, and a more dangerous future for our families,” said Fred Krupp, president of EDF. “President Trump and Administrator Scott Pruitt are putting our economy and our future at risk by ignoring the threat of climate change. Unlimited pollution is bad for America.”

The Clean Power Plan would deliver tremendous benefits to American communities by reducing harmful pollution. For example, EPA estimates the Clean Power Plan will prevent up to 3,600 premature deaths and 90,000 childhood asthma attacks every year once it is fully implemented.

Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, and Nate – as well as the wildfires across the West — have provided a tragic reminder of the threats we face from climate change. Millions are reeling, with lives lost and communities profoundly disrupted for years to come. Yet the Administration makes no commitment to protect Americans from dangerous climate change.

“President Trump and EPA Administrator Pruitt are using the pain in coal country as a cover for surrendering in the race of our lives. Miners, their families, and their communities need real help, not political grandstanding. Clean energy jobs belong to them, too. We need to make sure all Americans benefit from the new clean energy economy – retreating won’t help anyone.” said Krupp.

(Washington, D.C. – October 6, 2017) A leaked draft shows that Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt is preparing to revoke the Clean Power Plan without replacing it with any meaningful protections from the climate-destabilizing pollution from smokestacks.

News reports today reveal a draft EPA proposal to repeal the Clean Power Plan – America’s only nationwide limits on climate-destabilizing pollution from existing power plants. 

According to those reports, Administrator Pruitt would not take action to put new effective pollution limits in place despite his responsibility to protect Americans from harmful pollution under the Clean Air Act. That would mean existing power plants – our nation’s largest industrial source of the climate-destabilizing pollution associated with extreme weather – would be allowed to spew unlimited amounts of this harmful pollution into our air. 

“If Administrator Pruitt plans to repeal the Clean Power Plan, that would be a complete abdication of EPA’s legal responsibility to protect our children’s lungs from dangerous smokestack pollution and their homes from climate-destabilizing extreme weather,” said EDF president Fred Krupp. “A repeal-without-replace effort would completely ignore the vast toll that power plant pollution takes on our climate security, and would be an unconscionable abandonment of efforts to protect the health of our children and communities. EDF will continue to fight for the Clean Power Plan.” 

When EPA issued the Clean Power Plan in 2015, the agency demonstrated that the carbon pollution reductions will provide up to $20 billion in climate-related benefits each year by 2030. The Clean Power Plan will also reduce other dangerous pollutants emitted by power plants, including hazardous particulates and smog-forming compounds. That will prevent up to 3,600 premature deaths, 90,000 childhood asthma attacks, and 300,000 lost school and work days each year.

The Clean Power Plan would sustain and accelerate the expansion of America’s thriving clean energy economy, creating jobs and economic opportunities in red and blue states alike. A recent analysis by Environmental Entrepreneurs reported that repealing the Clean Power Plan would cost as many as 560,000 jobs and $52 billion in economic activity in 2030. 

According to today’s reports, the new proposal uses a distorted analysis to obscure the harmful impacts of revoking the Clean Power Plan. Reports show the new analysis ignores key aspects of how pollution harms Americans, using a methodology that was discredited more than a decade ago as scientifically unsound and that ignores the full impacts of climate change. 

Pruitt’s action also ignores settled law that EPA must issue safeguards against climate pollution under the Clean Air Act – something the Supreme Court has concluded three times already. 

(St. Julian’s, Malta – October 6, 2017) In a dramatic step forward for Asia-Pacific and global ocean conservation, the Philippines has begun implementing sustainable fishing reforms with Environmental Defense Fund serving as a partner to provide critical support on science and policy. The commitment was highlighted at the Our Ocean Conference in Malta, where the Philippines announced it would establish these reforms for its major commercial fisheries by 2022.  

“Healthy fisheries are critical to the well-being of all Filipinos, and we are committed to making fishing sustainable nationwide,” said Undersecretary for the Department of Agriculture for Fisheries, Eduardo Gongona, who also leads the Philippines’ Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources and announced the commitment in Malta. Undersecretary Gongona represents Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel (Manny) Piñol.

As part of a new national fisheries law, the Philippine fisheries bureau has committed to building science-based policies and is partnering with Environmental Defense Fund to develop new scientific processes, provide training, and test new technologies.

The Philippines is a top fishing nation in the Asia-Pacific region and boasts the highest marine diversity on the planet. Seafood is critical to the country’s food security. Millions of Filipinos depend on fishing for their livelihood, and 90 percent of the fish caught in the Philippines stays there, making up more than half of the animal protein consumed by the population.

“We applaud the Philippines for this extraordinary commitment,” said John Mimikakis, vice president for Asia with Environmental Defense Fund’s Oceans program. “EDF is proud to be partnering with the Philippine fisheries bureau to set an example for the region and the rest of the world for how to build policies that can improve food security and provide economic development, while at the same time recover fisheries.”

Today, more than 800 million people around the world face direct health risks from declining fish populations. New research shows that if nothing is done, 80 percent of the world’s fisheries will be in need of reform in less than 15 years. Overfishing is pervasive in the Philippines, where 70 percent of fish stocks for which there are data are considered overfished.

“Data, science, participation, and transparency are the foundation for good policy,” said Dr. Jose Ingles, an advisor to Environmental Defense Fund in the Philippines. “Together, we have an opportunity to build a roadmap for other nations on how to implement sustainable, science-based, and inclusive policy reforms for their fisheries.”

Through this partnership, EDF will continue to provide scientific support, sharing tools with the Philippine fisheries bureau as it develops reforms for the country’s major commercial fisheries. Managers in the Philippines plan to use some of the low-cost methods developed by EDF’s Fishery Solutions Center to assess the health of fish populations with the goal of managing fishing effort and catch to allow the populations to rebuild. 

“We view EDF as a critical partner to making fishing sustainable in the Philippines,” said Undersecretary Gongona. “By building our policy reforms on science and investing in reliable enforcement, we can ensure healthy fisheries for the future.”

Washington, D.C. – October 5, 2017) New bills introduced in the U.S. House and Senate today will help ensure a robust, scientifically and economically sound process for measuring the costs of climate pollution – and accounting for them appropriately in government decision-making.

Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado and 11 co-sponsors introduced the Transparent Pollution Accounting Act today. Rep. Donald McEachin introduced the House version of the bill. 

The bills address the social cost of carbon – the cost of damages caused by climate pollution.

Environmental Defense Fund applauded the lawmakers for their efforts. 

“Climate pollution is already impacting all Americans. From extreme weather to rising temperatures to intensifying smog, there are real costs to families, businesses, and taxpayers,” said Susanne Brooks, EDF’s Director of Climate Policy and Analysis. These bills will help ensure that the federal government is basing decisions on the best available science and economics and in an open and deliberative process.” 

The most recent and most rigorous estimates of the social cost of carbon were developed by an Interagency Working Group (IWG) of experts through a transparent process based on the latest peer-reviewed science and economics available. 

In March, President Trump issued an executive order aimed at discrediting the IWG estimates, withdrawing them as government policy, and directing federal agencies to pick their own metric.

The Transparent Pollution Accounting Act and its House counterpart would re-establish a federal IWG to regularly revise the social cost of carbon as needed. They would also establish a Scientific Review Committee to strengthen the integrity of the estimates.

(Washington, DC – October 4, 2017) After similar efforts were rejected by both the courts and Congress, the Trump administration is trying once again to suspend rules to protect taxpayers and Native American tribes from the needless waste of their natural gas resources.

Department of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke today issued a proposal to stall until January of 2019 a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rule that requires oil and gas companies operating on federal and tribal lands to take commonsense measures to reduce preventable leaks and venting of methane, the primary component of natural gas.

“This is little more than a giveaway to the worst-operated companies in the oil and gas industry,” said EDF Associate Vice President of Climate and Energy Matt Watson. “It comes at the direct expense of taxpayers and tribal communities, who own these resources, and to the distinct disadvantage of energy companies that are trying to operate responsibly.”

With this delay, Secretary Zinke is allowing an additional $330 million of taxpayer-owned natural gas to be wasted. That’s enough natural gas to meet the heating and cooking needs of 1.5 million American homes– or every home in Chicago – for a year.  The delay will also result in additional methane, volatile organic compound, and hazardous air pollutant emissions, all of which are dangerous pollutants.

Inaction is already hurting the American taxpayer. Since development of this rule began in 2013, almost $1.8 billion worth of American taxpayer-owned natural gas has been wasted largely due to avoidable leaks, flaring and intentional releases of methane. The BLM waste reduction standards, adopted in January, were modeled after policies pioneered in Western states like Colorado and Wyoming with the support of local elected officials, leading oil and gas companies and environmental groups.

More than 80 percent of Western voters, who live and work near public lands, support this rule, and more than two-thirds of voters across the country want to keep the rule in place.

Despite that support, opponents of the standards asked a federal district court in Wyoming for a preliminary injunction, which would have put the standards on hold indefinitely. In January, the court denied that request.

In May, opponents attempted to repeal the standards using the Congressional Review Act, but after an outpouring of support for the rule from across the country, the effort was rejected by a bipartisan majority of the U.S. Senate.

In June, Secretary Zinke attempted to unilaterally suspend many of these same protections, without providing any opportunity for public comment and without considering the additional wasted gas or harmful air pollution that would result from his actions. A legal challenge of that attempted stay (led by the Attorney’s General of California and New Mexico and a broad coalition of environmental and conservation groups) is pending in U.S. District Court.

You can find more information – including all legal documents– on EDF’s website.

(San Francisco – October 4, 2017) A U.S. District Court judge ruled today that Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s abrupt suspension of protections that reduce the waste of natural gas on public and tribal lands was “arbitrary and capricious and in violation” of the law.

Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Laporte of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ordered the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to immediately reinstate its Waste Prevention Standard, writing:

“The Court hereby VACATES the Postponement Notice and ORDERS Defendants to immediately reinstate the Waste Prevention, Production Subject to Royalties, and Resource Conservation Rule in its entirety.” (Court Judgement) 

“The court made it clear today that Secretary Zinke’s decision to suspend the Waste Prevention Standard without any opportunity for public input and without even considering the benefits to the public from the standard was a violation of the law,” said EDF Lead Attorney Peter Zalzal. “Today’s court decision reinstating the standard will ensure that the oil and gas companies operating on federal and tribal lands will take common sense steps to prevent the waste of natural gas, and will secure royalty money that rural communities can use for their schools and other infrastructure.”

The court heard arguments in this case on September 25. Lawyers representing the Attorneys General of California and New Mexico, and EDF and other conservation and tribal citizen groups, had argued that Zinke’s suspension of the standard should be invalidated. 

BLM adopted the Waste Prevention Standard in response to widespread evidence of extensive waste of natural gas on public and tribal lands — waste that means millions of dollars in lost revenue for taxpayers and an increase in harmful air pollution. The safeguards were finalized in November 2016 after a public process involving extensive stakeholder participation over several years – including eight public hearings across the country and hundreds of thousands of comments submitted. 

The measures in the Waste Prevention Standard require companies operating on public and tribal lands to deploy common sense technologies and best practices to capture natural gas. Many of these common sense measures are already being effectively deployed in states like Colorado and Wyoming. 

In June of 2017, however – without any public opportunity for comment and without considering any of the consequences for taxpayers, public health, and climate pollution – Secretary Zinke suspended key aspects of the Waste Prevention Standard, including requirements to reduce flaring, minimize waste from pneumatic controllers, and undertake common sense leak detection and repair practices.

Secretary Zinke’s decision to suspend key parts of the Waste Prevention Standard came after a January 2017 court decision, in a Wyoming federal district court, that rejected industry efforts to block the safeguards. 

In May of 2017, Congress likewise rejected efforts to repeal the Waste Prevention Standard using the Congressional Review Act. Then just this morning, Secretary Zinke launched another attempt to delay the standard – this time proposing to postpone it until 2019.

73 percent of voters nationwide support BLM’s Waste Prevention Standard, which was originally adopted to address the $330 million worth of the public’s natural gas that is wasted each year.  

The Sierra Club, Center for Biological Diversity, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, Wilderness Society, Citizens for a Healthy Community, Diné Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment, Earthjustice, Earthworks, Environmental Law and Policy Center, Fort Berthold Protectors of Water and Earth Rights, Montana Environmental Information Center, San Juan Citizens Alliance, Western Organization of Resource Councils, Wilderness Workshop, WildEarth Guardians, and Wyoming Outdoor Council joined EDF on its motion in the case.

You can read the court’s full order here. You can find more information – including all legal documents – on EDF’s website.

Washington, D.C. – October 4, 2017) Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) will go to court to defend America’s clean air standard for smog.

EDF joined a broad coalition of public health, environmental, and community groups in sending a notice of intent to sue to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt. The letter warns that the groups will take legal action if Pruitt does not carry out his duties under the law and begin implementing the 2015 smog standard.

“EPA has a legal and moral duty to protect Americans from the dangers of smog. Ignoring the legal deadlines set by the Clean Air Act is unacceptable,” said EDF Lead Attorney Peter Zalzal. “Moving forward with these protections will provide life-saving benefits to our families and communities, and make sure we all have cleaner, safer air to breathe.”

Ground-level ozone, more commonly known as smog, is a caustic pollutant that irritates the lungs, exacerbates lung conditions like asthma, and is linked to a wide-array of serious heart and lung diseases. Ozone pollution is particularly harmful for children, seniors, people with lung impairments like asthma, and anyone active outdoors.

The 2015 smog standard would reduce the amount of smog allowed in our air. EPA estimates that, when communities meet the standard, it will save hundreds of lives each year, prevent 230,000 asthma attacks in children each year, and prevent 160,000 missed school days for kids each year.

EPA faced a legal deadline of October 1, 2017, to identify the areas that must clean up their air because they violate the 2015 smog standard – formally known as finalizing the initial area designations.

In June 2017, Administrator Pruitt announced that he intended to delay finalizing the initial area designations. EPA later withdrew its plan to delay and reinstated the October 1, 2017 deadline – in response to a legal challenge filed by EDF and others.

The October 1 deadline has now passed, however, and EPA has not acted.

Any further delay buys more time for polluters to avoid using the effective emission controls the Clean Air Act requires – and puts the health of American families at increased risk from more dangerous pollution in our air.    

The American Lung Association, American Public Health Association, American Thoracic Society, Appalachian Mountain Club, Earthjustice, Environmental Law & Policy Center, National Parks Conservation Association, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club and West Harlem Environmental Action joined EDF in filing the notice of intent to sue.

Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) announced today that it has started work on a pilot project to design the first ever Environmental Impact Bond (EIB) for wetland restoration. The Wetlands Restoration and Resilience Pay-for-Success Environmental Impact Bond project will evaluate the feasibility of using an EIB to finance a wetland restoration project from Louisiana’s Coastal Master Plan. The results of the feasibility analysis will be ready next summer.

EDF and its contractor, Quantified Ventures, will be working with Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) to design the project. Key elements will include defining potential criteria for projects that could be financed under an EIB; evaluating suitable Coastal Master Plan projects; assessing potential cost savings to the state from implementing wetland restoration projects earlier; and identifying benefits of wetland restoration to private industries, which could become investors.

“We’re exploring new ways to bring additional financing to the table for coastal restoration in Louisiana – and beyond,” said Steve Cochran, EDF associate vice president for coastal protection.

Over the next 15 years, Louisiana will receive billions of dollars for restoration from Gulf oil spill settlements and other sources, but additional funding sources will need to be secured to fully implement the state’s $50-billion Coastal Master Plan.

“We’re interested in developing innovative financing tools, like Environmental Impact Bonds, that can get projects built sooner, and that may be a means for attracting new sources of capital from beneficiaries of wetland restoration,” continued Cochran. “This project aims to develop and demonstrate a model for how the private sector can partner with government to finance coastal resilience projects in Louisiana, with the potential for replication in other parts of the Gulf Coast, U.S. and globally.”

“CPRA is excited to partner with EDF and Quantified Ventures on this project. We are always eager to attract interest from the private sector in our work to restore and protect coastal Louisiana at CPRA. This opportunity to design these innovative bonds also lines up perfectly with the pay-for-success initiative we are undertaking,” said Johnny Bradberry, Chairman of the CPRA Board.

The Wetlands Restoration and Resilience Pay-for-Success Environmental Impact Bond project is funded by NatureVest, the conservation investing unit of The Nature Conservancy (naturevesttnc.org), through its Conservation Investment Accelerator Grant, which aims to find and support the best talent and most meaningful work in the field of conservation investment.

Find out more at edf.org/impactbond. 

“Over the weekend, the Department of Defense reported that most people in Puerto Rico do not have access to clean drinking water – a sharp increase from what was reported just a few days ago. This public health emergency demands the most vigorous possible response. These Americans deserve the same focus and attention as our fellow citizens in Texas and Florida.

“As we saw after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, these powerful storms leave a dangerous aftermath. In addition to the lack of clean water, there is a massive problem with untreated sewage as many treatment plants are down. A swift response from EPA and other federal agencies is essential.

“We are once again seeing the devastation from storms made stronger by climate change. In each crisis, we are faced with a question of who we are, as a nation. America must always protect its citizens regardless of where they live. That means effective action to help those in need, and a bold strategy to reduce climate pollution. Leaders who fail on either count will have abdicated their responsibility to us all.”

            - Fred Krupp, president of Environmental Defense Fund

“Over the weekend, the Department of Defense reported that most people in Puerto Rico do not have access to clean drinking water – a sharp increase from what was reported just a few days ago. This public health emergency demands the most vigorous possible response. These Americans deserve the same focus and attention as our fellow citizens in Texas and Florida.

“As we saw after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, these powerful storms leave a dangerous aftermath. In addition to the lack of clean water, there is a massive problem with untreated sewage as many treatment plants are down. A swift response from EPA and other federal agencies is essential.

“We are once again seeing the devastation from storms made stronger by climate change. In each crisis, we are faced with a question of who we are, as a nation. America must always protect its citizens regardless of where they live. That means effective action to help those in need, and a bold strategy to reduce climate pollution. Leaders who fail on either count will have abdicated their responsibility to us all.”

            - Fred Krupp, president of Environmental Defense Fund

(WASHINGTON, D.C. – September 29, 2017) Secretary of Energy Rick Perry took unprecedented action today by pushing the independent Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to set aside competitive markets and instead permit government intervention to prop up uneconomic coal-fired power plants. The Secretary’s request would increase electricity bills throughout the nation to subsidize coal plants otherwise unable to compete in a free market.

“This is an unprecedented attack on American’s health, environment, and wallets,” said Jim Marston, vice president, Clean Energy. “Undermining and politicizing our grid will only increase electricity bills throughout the nation while increasing dangerous air pollution in our communities.”

Perry’s announcement comes just a month after the Department of Energy attempted to prop up the coal industry with a new study about the reliability of the nation’s electricity grid. The attempt failed when the study proved the grid is reliable.

“Secretary Perry’s entire tenure at the Department of Energy has been one effort after another to prop up the coal industry,” said Marston. “His directive to FERC would set aside competition and free markets to instead mandate winners and losers by favoring coal over other energy resources. It would ultimately increase customers’ energy bills and air pollution, and weaken the critical independence of FERC.”

(SAN FRANCISCO - September 29, 2017) “The damaging earthquakes of the 7th and 19th of September in Mexico, as well as the series of hurricanes, have devastated Cuba and several countries in the Caribbean, Latin America, as well as the southern United States, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.  Environmental Defense Fund expresses its most profound sympathy and solidarity with those that have been affected by these events. 

“It is in these moments of crises, more than ever, that we need unity and collaboration. We are moved and inspired to see the acts of generosity, and the great empathy which so many citizens have shown, as well as the invaluable international support which was quickly mobilized by several countries. These acts of kindness show us that it is possible to confront adversity by working together. 

“We reiterate our commitment - both as individuals and as an organization - to work for a more prosperous and resilient world. Going forward, we must ensure all nations are prepared to face disasters – both natural and related to climate change. We join the call to continue supporting each other not only through these difficult times, but also in our everyday lives, to foster a level of community that protects future generations from the devastation we have witnessed in the past weeks.”

         - Diane Regas, Executive Director, EDF 

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(SAN FRANCISCO - 29 de septiembre de 2017) “Ante los cuantiosos daños que han dejado los terremotos del 7 y 19 de Septiembre en México, y ante una serie de huracanes que han asolado y dañado gravemente a Cuba y varios países del Caribe y Latinoamérica, así como regiones del sur de Estados Unidos de América, las Islas Vírgenes de los Estados Unidos y Puerto Rico, Environmental Defense Fund expresa nuestro profundo dolor y completa solidaridad con aquellos que resultaron afectados por estos eventos.  

“En estos momentos de crisis, más que nunca, se requiere de la unión y trabajo conjunto. Nos conmueve e inspira observar los actos de generosidad y la gran empatía mostrada por tantos ciudadanos, así como el invaluable apoyo internacional que se movilizó rápidamente por varios países. Estos actos de bondad nos demuestran que es posible enfrentar la adversidad trabajando unidos.

“Refrendamos nuestro compromiso - tanto como individuos y como organización - para trabajar juntos por un mundo más próspero y resiliente. Hacia el futuro, debemos asegurar que todas las naciones están preparadas para enfrentar los desastres - tanto naturales como aquellos que surgen del cambio climático. Nos unimos al llamado a continuar apoyándonos no solo ante las dificultades, sino en nuestras labores cotidianas, para promover una comunidad que protege las futuras generaciones de la devastación que hemos presenciado en las ultimas semanas.” 

          - Diane Regas, Directora Ejecutiva, EDF 

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