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This blog is co-authored by Taylor Bacon, Analyst, US Clean Air and Climate; Maria Harris, Senior Scientist; and Mindi DePaola, Program Manager, Office of the Chief Scientist. A new EDF report finds that strengthening federal protections for fine particle air pollution (PM2.5) to 8 µg/m3 will have large health benefits and reduce air pollution-related health …

This week EDF published a new study that combines locations of active oil and gas wells with census tract data in a way that helps us better understand the characteristics of the communities living near them.

Think you know the oceans? Seven amazing facts to make you marvel at the seven seas

Photo essay featuring residents of Culebra, Puerto Rico, who are teaming up with EDF to install rooftop solar and battery systems for clean, resilient power. 

Whether hydrogen turns out to be a climate Jekyll or Hyde will depend, based on soon-to-be published research by Environmental Defense Fund, on how it’s made and how much of it leaks. 

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).

Whether hydrogen turns out to be a climate Jekyll or Hyde will depend, based on soon-to-be published research by Environmental Defense Fund, on how it’s made and how much of it leaks.

Photo essay featuring residents of Culebra, Puerto Rico, who are teaming up with EDF to install rooftop solar and battery systems for clean, resilient power.

New EDF research explores the demographics of people living near active oil and gas wells

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.

The Biden Administration announced several actions tackle the climate crisis, including a “Green Shipping Challenge” to galvanize global action to decarbonize the international shipping industry. EDF's Global Transportation expert comments.

EDF, Allies Support SEC’s Proposed Climate Risk Financial Disclosure Standard

Members of Indore’s public health community came together at the Sayaji Hotel on May 5, 2022, to discuss how to promote clean air solutions in the city at a health sector stakeholder engagement workshop.

Enteric methane is emitted when ruminants, like cows, digest their food. These emissions are the single largest source of agricultural methane emissions, which makes reducing enteric emissions a massive opportunity to slow warming, today. New breakthrough technologies coming to market are giving companies across the food and agricultural supply chain the ability to partner with …

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Distress over climate change, sometimes referred to as climate anxiety, is hitting some of us hard. Take our survey to find ways to manage your anxiety.

This toolkit from EDF and partners provides information on ways to enhance climate resilience planning by electric utilities.

This report is part of a series of papers prepared by Resources for the Future (RFF) and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). Scholars from RFF and WiseEuropa—an independent Polish think tank—examine Poland’s energy transition to distill lessons that could help decarbonization efforts in the United States and around the world.

Despite widespread commitments among oil producers to reduce natural gas flaring, 2021 saw a net increase in flaring emissions worldwide.

EDF statement from Elizabeth Gore, Senior Vice President, Political Affairs

EDF’s new Air Tracker tool allows us to better understand how local air pollution behaves, illuminating the path it takes from a likely source area. Because this tool allows us to look backwards at where pollution likely originated, it shifts the focus, putting communities and people first. Developing it required a shift in thinking.  Most …

Air Tracker is a new web-based tool that allows users to plot the likely path of air pollution 

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is holding a hearing today that will bring the state closer to adopting historic standards that will ultimately eliminate pollution from new cars and passenger trucks sold in California by 2035.

EDF statement from Elizabeth Gore, Senior Vice President, Political Affairs