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EDF Statement from Senior Director of Chemical Policy, Maria Doa

The e-commerce supply chain has a huge environmental footprint. To reduce it, companies need to invest in zero-emissions delivery, advance clean circularity and create more sustainable products.

Protective Clean Car Standards Will Reduce Pollution, Save Money, Be a Gift to All Americans

New Jersey Becomes the Nation’s Latest Clean Trucks State, Dumping Dirty Diesel

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

PepsiCo and Walmart operate collectively over 18,000 freight tractors. So, when these companies make a joint statement on the future of trucking, folks pay attention. In a blog post published earlier this week, executives from PepsiCo and Walmart noted their support for federal policy action on trucks, as well as the importance of state leadership …

Protecting Texas’ vulnerable groundwater supplies raises a challenging dilemma: How can you motivate people to stand up for an underground resource they cannot see? So, we made a video to bring this vital resource to life. The post New EDF video helps Texans visualize and protect the groundwater they cannot see first appeared on Growing Returns.

Effective fisheries management is critical to food security, livelihoods for millions of people and vibrant marine life and biodiversity. By empowering communities to sustainably manage marine resources, we can build resilience to climate change, secure healthy oceans and better protect communities that are vulnerable to extreme weather events. This is especially true in the Philippines,

Colorado's AQCC today adopted powerful new rules to reduce oil and gas methane and air pollution, setting the bar for nation-leading protections.

Colorado's AQCC today adopted powerful new rules to reduce oil and gas methane and air pollution, setting the bar for nation-leading protections.

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

EDF statement from Pam Kiely, Associate Vice President for U.S. Climate

The Biden-Harris Administration announced a broad action plan across ten federal agencies to replace all lead pipes in the country within a decade.

When it comes to slowing the warming of our planet, there is no substitute for immediate, dramatic reductions in anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. But emissions reductions alone won’t be enough to limit warming to the 1.5 degrees Celsius goal at the heart of the 2015 Paris Agreement, or even to the Agreement’s upper limit of …

Coal companies and supporting states recently filed opening briefs in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, a case involving the Trump Administration’s repeal of, and weak replacement for, the 2015 Clean Power Plan regulating carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. Although neither regulation is in effect – indeed, EPA has indicated that it plans to adopt …

Last month, Governor Phil Murphy elevated New Jersey’s fight against the climate crisis this decade by signing Executive Order No. 274, which commits the state to reducing greenhouse gas emissions 50% below 2006 levels by 2030. The Governor’s action is a critical step toward putting New Jersey on a path to do what is necessary to avoid …

This blog was co-authored by Jeremy Proville, Director: Office of the Chief Economist, and Ananya Roy, Senior Health Scientist at EDF. New analysis finds that prevalent methods of assessing impacts of air pollution underestimate pollution’s health impacts on people of color. Everyone has the right to breathe clean air. Yet communities of color, falsely labeled …

How coastal cities can better fund natural infrastructure and protect their residents. The post Virginia Beach’s new flood bond can be a model for other cities. Here’s how. first appeared on Growing Returns.

Groundwater management in Texas is headed in the wrong direction, but groundwater agencies have the authorities and tools to reverse this alarming trajectory. The post Wells and springs are drying up in Texas. Here is what leaders can do about it. first appeared on Growing Returns.

Building more resilient supply chains is a business imperative, especially as the likelihood for more disruption increases.

Water for Arizona Coalition and Kevin Moran, Senior Director, Colorado River Program, on solutions to Colorado River challenges, including less water use.

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

Ugbaad Ali, Community Environmental Health Tom Graff Fellow We all deserve to live in a healthy and vibrant community, yet many residents of Flint, Michigan, are overburdened by a lifetime of toxic exposures and environmental injustice. Recently, a coalition of environmental justice groups and community organizers in Flint used their combined power to organize against …

Jennifer McPartland, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist, and Lariah Edwards, Ph.D., is an EDF-George Washington University Postdoctoral Fellow EPA Administrator Michael Regan recently completed a five-day “journey to justice” tour, highlighting communities across three US states that have been adversely affected by decades of chemical and air pollution. EPA’s focus on protecting those whose health is …

Paper published in the journal Water by EDF scientists reviews the evidence that implementing natural infrastructure in upstream agricultural landscapes could improve water quality and reduce flood risk for downstream communities, and identifies a suite of natural infrastructure measures that provide the greatest benefits.