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Statement of EDF President Fred Krupp – Oct. 28, 2021

Statement from Mandy Warner, Director of Climate and Clean Air Policy, Environmental Defense Fund

BJ Johnson transformed himself from athlete to an eco-entrepreneur working to transform the dirty fossil-fuel-based trucking industry. In this episode, he tells EDF's Degrees podcast why entrepreneurship is a viable planet-saving career and the challenges of being one of the few Black men in his field.

Companies are looking to bolster their net zero plans, with new research highlighting both the significant opportunities and challenges in scaling markets.

EDF map of 81,000 documented orphan oil and gas wells whose federally funded closure protects the environment, climate and communities while creating jobs.

Statement of EDF Senior Director of Climate and Health Elena Craft – October 13, 2021

Companies must ensure cell-cultured meat and seafood products coming to the market are safe for the planet and human health and that growth happens responsibly and transparently.

Companies and countries recognize that aggressively cutting greenhouse gas emissions is necessary for a stable, habitable and prosperous world. For companies, that means turning their net-zero pledges into action.

An economist’s guide to filling in the research gaps. Natural gas currently accounts for more than a third of U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions, but efforts to decarbonize the economy – in particular by replacing gas with electricity in a wide variety of critical applications – imply decreasing future gas demand and CO2 emissions from the …

The governance body will establish a threshold for high-integrity carbon credits and ensure they are traded in robust, transparent and equitable markets.

Under Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, New Mexico has made oil and gas air pollution and methane reductions a focus of regulatory improvements, restoring enforcement teeth to the governor’s Oil Conservation Division and finalizing a strong methane waste rule that bans routine venting and flaring earlier this year. These critical policy efforts will reach a climax …

The World Health Organization’s update of the global Air Quality Guidelines is an important step forward.

Natural climate solutions can provide 20% of all the emissions reductions we need by 2050 to keep average global warming under 2 C. Stopping tropical deforestation, allowing tropical forests to regenerate and restoring degraded lands are the most important methods, particularly in the next decade.

CBS news video highlights EDF's high-tech tools to monitor methane leaks that contribute to global warming.

EDF Statement from Katelyn Roedner Sutter, Senior Manager for U.S. Climate

EDF statement from Katelyn Roedner Sutter, Senior Manager for U.S. Climate

EDF teamed with Evolved Research to create a new and improved cost curve that provides a roadmap for policymakers exploring net zero carbon emissions.

As the biosphere continues to warm and the ocean acidifies, solving the global carbon problem becomes more critical each day. Keeping temperatures to survivable levels requires reducing emissions while at the same time working aggressively to absorb as much carbon dioxide as possible, using approaches that can nurture natural ecosystems and help vulnerable human communities …

Stakeholder presentation for National Academy of Sciences grant to examine and address the vulnerability of petrochemical facilities along Galveston Bay to flood-induced chemical spills and releases.

EDF and Princeton University researchers show how emissions reductions policies and programs can drive lasting reductions in carbon dioxide.

The new report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the direst warning yet that we must rapidly and drastically slash climate emissions around the world and that reducing methane emissions is mission critical. Though the report includes some important opportunities, it’s a very sober read. Let’s get some of the central …

The bipartisan infrastructure bill currently under debate in Washington includes a new, $4.7 billion program to address a significant environmental legacy of the fossil fuel industry — the plugging and remediating of orphan oil and gas wells. Orphan wells have no owner, so the cleanup liability falls largely to the public. Nearly 60,000 such wells …

A panel of EDF experts provide an inside look at what MethaneSat can do to accelerate climate progress.

For the first time in IPCC history, the assessment dedicates an entire chapter to short-lived climate pollutants, casting a spotlight on methane – the reduction of which would have immediate climate benefits, argues EDF President Fred Krupp.

A new climate report is out and it is the most dire yet. Though this report is full of doom and gloom, it is not too late to act to save the planet.