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A study from EDF and Kaiser Permanente scientists, published in the journal Atmospheric Environment, finds that long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution is associated with higher health care costs for older adults.

This calculator from EDF converts abstract greenhouse gas emissions numbers into equivalent activities from our daily lives to make the data more meaningful.

EDF is proud to support this powerful community of over one million moms and dads united against air pollution – including the urgent crisis of our changing climate – to protect our children's health.

Private Investment’s Opportunity to Drive and Scale Decarbonization

Accelerating Climate Innovation to Create Resilient Consumer Goods Companies

Reimagining India: Climate Tech Convening

EPA's comment period garnered support for federal methane regulation, but opportunities remain for leading companies to raise ambition in public comments later this year. In this report, EDF reviews the public comments and statements made by the top 10 largest US onshore energy producers, including Chevron, bp, Shell, and ExxonMobil.

This paper evaluates the climate consequences of hydrogen emissions over all timescales by employing already published data to assess its potency as a climate forcer, evaluate the net warming impacts from replacing fossil fuel technologies with their clean hydrogen alternatives, and estimate temperature responses to projected levels of hydrogen demand.

Infographic shows areas and communities impacted most by pollution from low-producing oil and gas wells. 

The gas can contribute to climate change. It’s prone to leak dangerously and often dirty to produce.

New analysis from Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and Rural Beacon Initiative (RBI) shows that joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) can be an integral tool for North Carolina to cost-effectively reduce emissions and meet the state’s carbon reduction goals.

Paper co-authored by EDF scientists addresses the critical need for scientists to play an active role in helping guide protocol development and to conduct relevant research on the voluntary carbon market for agricultural soil carbon sequestration.

Hurricanes, floods and fires. From California to Puerto Rico, the race is on to build a cleaner, more resilient power grid.

Video footage of low-producing oil & gas well emissions.

This policy brief quantifies the size of the opportunity from reducing deforestation in the Legal Amazon in U.S. dollars, and provides a roadmap of policy and regulatory changes, and actions, required to seize this opportunity.

Report from Trove Research, supported by  Environmental Defense Fund, shows that growing corporate demand for carbon credits could aid tropical forest countries in achieving their national climate obligations.

ESG By EDF is an insights platform that empowers investor action to accelerate climate and sustainability solutions.

The objective of this paper, co-authored by EDF, is to give policy makers, regulators, and other stakeholders a description of the main policy and regulatory levers available to realize the significant methane mitigation opportunities in the oil and gas sector. It aims to provide an overview of the different policy instrument options and thereby help policy makers assess which option is most attractive given regional circumstances and the relevant regulatory and political constraints.

These steps from EDF – focused on addressing environmental racism in beauty and personal care products – guide companies to develop and implement their chemical policies with equity at the forefront.

Residential Electricity Tariffs:Impacts on DER Adoption and Use

SLOAN Foundation Webinar on Distributed Energy Resources

Demand Flexibility Management White Paper & Rulemaking

The Role of Information in DER Deployment

Use this tool from EDF to look up population counts, shares, disproportionalities, and significance statistics for all population groups at four different distances from wells and well type (primarily oil, gas, or both).

This study published in Population and Environment documents the prevalence of historically marginalized populations (across age, income, education, race-ethnicity, and language) living near active oil and gas wells throughout the USA, at both local and aggregated scales.