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A few months' improvements in air pollution won’t resolve the underlying health conditions that make many people more vulnerable to COVID-19.

Field methane readings by EDF PermianMAP show three times national rate; enough to supply every home in Houston, Dallas for a year.

Full scientific methodology for EDF's PermianMAP initiative. 

Methodology for the emission rate scale associated with EDF's PermianMAP initiative. 

The Permian Methane Analysis Project (PermianMAP) is an Environmental Defense Fund initiative that combines established data collection methods with state-of-the-art technologies to pinpoint, measure and report on oil and gas methane emissions in the Permian Basin.

Climate Tech Convening 2020

Air pollution is now the biggest risk for early death, responsible for more than 6 million premature deaths each year. Here are some of the effects of air pollution.

EDF: Trump Administration Must Immediately Halt New Attack on Health Science

To evaluate health equity and environmental justice concerns, Environmental Defense Fund and American University’s Center for Environmental Policy analyzed more than 3,400 LSL replacements (LSLRs) conducted in Washington, DC between 2009 and 2018.

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

EDF statement from Steve Cochran, campaign director for Restore the Mississippi River Delta

American University and EDF released a report finding a program that puts low-income and African American households at greater risk of lead exposure.

The EPA proposed to expand its dangerous plan to limit the science the agency can consider when developing public health and environmental safeguards.

A National Survey of African American Adults.

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.

Info for the 2020 Climate Tech Convening 2020

According to new research, many European fish populations are on the move due to warming oceans and increasing numbers. Read and discover more.

Restoring natural infrastructure offers much promise as a means to reduce both flood hazard and exposure to complement and supplement other flood damage reduction strategies.

This catastrophe could prove to be the beginning of a new chapter.

EDF science is helping struggling farmers in India fight climate change and grow more food.

The smart, interconnected grid of the future is within reach, but customers and entrepreneurs must have easy, secure, and meaningful access to energy data.

Conservation can improve the financial health of dairy farms, according to a new report from EDF and K·Coe Isom AgKnowledge.

An online report with greenhouse gas flux data from rice and non-rice cropping systems from four agro-ecological regions in India. Published by Environmental Defense Fund, New York, NY.

Learn how businesses are using advanced technology for measurement, efficiency and risk minimization.

City roadmap to design, deploy and optimize a hyperlocal air quality monitoring network