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The dairy sector plays a vital role in India's economy, serving as a key driver of rural livelihoods and agricultural growth.

By Pedro Piris-Cabezas and Glenda Chen Airport activity emits a noxious cocktail of air pollutants, including ashy particulate matter, sulfur oxides, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds, hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides. Among them, PM emissions from aircraft turbines often fly under the radar yet have an outsized impact on regional air quality and public …

Adopting federal jet fuel regulations to set the aromatic content to as close as possible to 8% can slash particulate matter pollution in the near term, while ensuring adherence to existing flight safety certifications and fuel quality specifications.

Rosa Inguanzo is uniting her central California community to call for clean water.

Ashoka-EDF Climate Corps Fellowship is a fellowship program that trains professionals with leading organizations to accelerate climate action.

America’s farms and food are on the frontlines of more extreme weather. We owe it to farmers, ranchers and families to make food production more resilient.

After four years of stalled negotiations, COP29 has delivered a breakthrough on Article 6.

This post was authored by Bärbel Henneberger, Senior Partnerships Manager at the Environmental Defense Fund.  On November 21, COP29 celebrated Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IP and LCs) as a thematic day in the Action Agenda of the Azerbaijani COP presidency. The day underscored the essential role of IP and LCs in safeguarding 80% of …

At the U.N.'s annual climate summit, COP29, island leaders demand urgent action.

As the United Nations biodiversity summit, COP16, approaches, Environmental Defense Fund's Amanda Leland explains three vital steps to protecting nature while also helping the world tackle climate change.

There are unprecedented opportunities that can lift up workers, families and entire communities, and we need to make sure they reach everyone.

Authors: Erin Leonard and Maggie Monast With more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide over the first 20 years after its release, methane is one of the most potent greenhouse gasses. One major contributor to global methane is livestock operations — 32% of methane emissions from human activity come from livestock and …

Léalo en español This post is written by Santiago García Lloré, Senior Manager of IPLC and Conservation Partnerships at EDF. In the coming days, major international events like New York Climate Week, the COP for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Cali, and the UN Climate Change Conference (COP) in Baku will gather world …

This is the seventh year of the contest, which encourages students to THINK BIG about Houston’s environmental problems and potential solutions.

As part of Project 11, muck dredged out of the heavily industrialized Houston Ship Channel will be dumped in residential communities. Residents want to know what's in it.

This EDF research identifies challenges and opportunities for achieving an inclusive just transition to a low-carbon economy in the labor market, a just labor transition (JLT). Authors conduct a comparative analysis of JLT policies between developed and developing countries.

This blog was authored by Brigitte Castañeda and Minwoo Hyun, former EDF Doctoral Interns, Raphael Heffron, Professor at the Universite de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, and by Environmental Defense Fund economist, Luis Fernández Intriago. As temperatures rise globally, the energy sector stands clearly accountable, putting a critical spotlight on the need for a …

Op-ed discusses how, as we approach Katrina’s 19th anniversary, the decisions we make on Election Day will determine whether we can prevent future superstorms.

EDF statement from Dr. Karla Sosa, Project Manager, New York State Affairs

To better understand the disproportionate burden associated with warehouses and other major truck-attracting facilities in New Jersey, Environmental Defense Fund deployed a peer-reviewed framework called Proximity Mapping, which helps identify communities living close to facilities of concern.

A report released Tuesday, June 18, 2024 by Environmental Defense Fund and the Coalition for Healthy Ports NY/NJ traces the growth of mega-warehouses in New Jersey and associated pollution from diesel trucks across New Jersey.

Lamont Taylor has spent decades as a civil rights activist. Now, the 72 year old has turned his attention to environmental racism. 

As the impacts of climate change reveal themselves to North Carolinians in the form of heat, flooding, wildfires, drought, and increasingly intense and more frequent tropical storms, the case for urgent action to combat climate change is strengthening. Our state has made important strides, setting vehicle electrification goals and power sector emissions reductions directives, but …

Cancer Alley, a stretch of land in Louisiana known for its high cancer rates and heavy industrialization, has a glimmer of hope as the EPA looks to cut down on toxic air pollution.

The process to make petrochemicals, which are found in everything from plastics to fertilizers to yoga pants, exposes nearby communities to serious health risks, like cancer and respiratory illnesses, says Tonya Calhoun of the Environmental Defense Fund, shown in front of banner on Cancer Alley in Louisiana.