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EDF joins a group of organizations demanding that the agency and industry evaluate cumulative health effects of classes of related food chemicals.

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

Statement by EDF President Fred Krupp on Passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Leading businesses are making it clear that we cannot lose sight of climate change that poses severe threats to our communities and economy.

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

EDF urges the EQB to advance the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) draft CO2 Budget Trading Program rule, a prudent, cost-effective, and common-sense approach to ensuring durable, real, and sustained carbon pollution reductions in the power sector.

EDF and Resources for the Future reviewed environmental policies that can support communities affected by the transition to a clean economy.

Statement by Eric Schwaab, senior vice president at Environmental Defense Fund Oceans program and interim senior vice president of Ecosystems program

States and leading environmental groups, including EDF, will argue for upholding widely accepted standards that reduce pollution from the freight trailers that carry goods on America’s highways.

EDF and other groups encourage U.S. House leadership to bring up a DOE innovation package.

Climate Week 2020 put green recovery on an international stage, and EDF is bringing the right experts to the table to explore lasting solutions. View information on EDF's events.

EDF Statement from Nathaniel Keohane, Senior Vice President for Climate

EDF joined Americans in calling on EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler to strengthen the health-based standard to reduce ground-level ozone pollution.

New EDF report outlines the actions Texas can take to spur investment in and adoption of clean, distributed energy resources like rooftop and community solar, energy storage, energy efficiency and demand response.

EDF recommends that federal legislation to help the United State achieve net-zero climate pollution by 2050 lock in pollution reductions, grow the economy, and protect vulnerable populations. But what specifically should that look like?

EDF explains how climate change disproportionately hits African Americans and other communities of color.

Statement from Daniel Whittle, Senior Director of Caribbean Initiatives

EDF statement from Derek Walker, VP for U.S. Climate, as Gov. John Bel Edwards issued an order committing the state to net zero gas emissions by 2050.

Solutions are bubbling up from communities across Puerto Rico, which amid a global pandemic, is even more exposed than it was before Hurricane Maria.

Hurricanes, floods, wildfires, heat waves and other catastrophic weather events pose safety, financial and health risks to families and communities.

This report is the first in a series from EDF and Resources for the Future on ensuring fairness for fossil fuel workers and communities in the move to a clean economy.

EDF is proud to support the Climate Equity Act, a powerful piece of legislation introduced today by Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY-14) that seeks to dismantle long standing environmental injustices.

Vickie has assembled and mentored an A-team of environmental lawyers who are on the front lines of today’s fierce battles to defend America’s bedrock environmental laws.

Gov. Cuomo’s office announced that it would not move forward to place the Restore the Mother Nature Bond Act on the November ballot for voters to consider.

COVID-19 and deforestation of Indigenous territories are threatening one of the greatest advances for climate and human rights of the last century.