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We need to make sure improvements happen across the entire beauty aisle, especially where the need is greatest.

Environmental Defense Fund urges EU leaders to keep a united stance to make the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation, known as CORSIA, work.

Farmers are the original environmentalists. For generations, they’ve tended the land, kept track of its health and put their hearts, backs and livelihoods into keeping it productive. But in an era of climate change and extreme weather events, it’s going to take new allies and new tactics to help farmers in that mission, and the National Corn Growers Association has found an important partner in an unexpected place. In this episode, NCGA CEO Jon Doggett and Environmental Defense Fund Senior VP of Ecosystems David Festa discuss the common ground they’ve discovered in helping growers weather storms, grow their profits and reduce their impact on the environment. They’re joined as well by NCGA VP of Production and Sustainability Nathan Fields.

EDF joins hundreds of others to testify against proposed NEPA changes

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.

FY20 Spring Special Report

EDF SVP Nathaniel Keohane's response to Governor John Bel Edwards on 2nd term coastal priorities like Climate Initiatives Task Force to reduce emissions.

This is an opportunity for USDA to double down on investments in conservation practices.

Success means preserving the stable climate system on which life as we know it depends. We see three critical paths for philanthropy to take on this problem, and all three must be advanced simultaneously. 

A global coalition of non-governmental organizations is warning a UN body of “substantial backlash” if it fails to deliver a robust program of high integrity to reduce climate pollution from airlines.

EDF, NRDC Oppose Trump Administration’s Legal Attack on California Coordination with Quebec to Cut Climate Pollution

Statement of Environmental Defense Fund President Fred Krupp

Today EPA released the draft of its annual Greenhouse Gas Inventory which includes estimates of methane emissions from natural gas and petroleum systems

Gulf Ecosystem Restoration Council approved funding for Gulf restoration including a $130 million critical diversion project in Louisiana’s Maurepas Swamp.

Mexico is well positioned to build climate resilience into its fisheries management and make significant contributions to the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals, according to leaders speaking at an annual meeting focused on sustainable fisheries and climate change.

While you might enjoy warmer winter days that feel more like spring, those breaks from cooler temperatures are no reason to celebrate. Our changing climate is transforming winter in some alarming ways.

Momentum for a clean future is building today after Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) introduced the Clean Economy Act that puts the country on a path to net-zero climate pollution by 2050.

To avoid the worst impacts of climate change, we need to accelerate electrification of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. Here are the growth trends we'll be monitoring in 2020.

The Trump Administration is once again prioritizing polluters at the expense of the health

EDF Asks D.C. Circuit to Uphold FERC Energy Storage Order

By Sarah Vogel, Ph.D., VP Health When we’re outside, either walking or driving, we’re instinctively looking out for traffic. “Look both ways when you cross the street,” is advice drummed into most children. But even so, we all have blind spots, and we’re not aware of the present danger polluting cars and trucks bring into …

We must meet the growing threats posed by a changing climate with increased investments in technology and infrastructure that will help transition us to a 100% clean economy.

EDF believes this process of continuous improvement is foundational for protecting land, water and communities from development-related impacts. That’s why we track what states are up to on a consistent basis.

The deaths of Homero Gómez González and Raúl Hernández Romero, activists who protected the monarch butterfly, are devastating, for the human loss as well as the cost to precious ecosystems.

The passage of new amendment provides Gulf states with more flexibility to set seasons that work for their anglers, while ensuring accountability