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A new analysis for UK Clean Air Day from Environmental Defense Fund Europe (EDF Europe) finds nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution was 40% lower than expected across London during the initial COVID-19 lockdown. But how do we know about pollution that didn’t happen? We used a machine learning model to predict what the concentration of NO2 …

Surveys show that women own or co-own nearly half the farmland in the Midwest but are often under-represented in leadership positions, including in policymaking bodies, financial institutions, and other agricultural agencies and institutions.

Discussion of how California, EDF, and state, private sector and environmental allies are fighting back against Trump 's rollback of climate protections.

EDF vows to oppose rollback of vital health protections.

EDF, long-time champion of increased monitoring in New England, calls for the target to be met.

EDF director of working lands, Maggie Monast, will testify on the financial risks that climate change poses to America’s agriculture sector.

The Climate Authenticity Meter rates how companies and industry groups’ lobbying activities support or obstruct progress on climate policy.

EDF is hosting a series of conversations with environmental justice experts who are leading the way to understand environmental disparities, their systemic causes and effective strategies to create change.

EDF partnered with leading experts to develop a law review article, published in the Journal of Environmental Law, that takes a deep dive into the relationship between California's SGMA and groundwater rights.

EDF is partnering with the Houston and Harris County to expand pollution monitoring capability and identify facilities that most threaten public health.

Statement by Eric Schwaab, senior vice president at Environmental Defense Fund Oceans program, on the reintroduction of the AQUAA 2.0 Act.

Watch EDF-hosted panels on 1) The role of open-source energy models in climate policy and 2) Open energy models: the current state and the way to reduce barriers to modern modeling approaches.

Joint Statement from Environmental Defense Fund and Pennsylvania Environmental Council

EDF Statement from Jon Goldstein, Director of Regulatory & Legislative Affairs, Energy

EDF Statement from President Fred Krupp

EDF joins a group of organizations demanding that the agency and industry evaluate cumulative health effects of classes of related food chemicals.

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

Statement by EDF President Fred Krupp on Passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

EDF statement from Zhang Jianyu, Vice President, China, as China is takes bold steps to address its contribution to climate change.

Morgan Stanley is the first major U.S. bank to pledge to net zero financed emissions by 2050, but it won’t be the last.

Flooding caused by these wetter, more intense storms is devastating lives and costing billions. Is there a way out?

EDF is partnering with Climate Week NYC to deliver a series of events on what countries, and the private sector, must do over the next year to address the climate challenge.

Leading businesses are making it clear that we cannot lose sight of climate change that poses severe threats to our communities and economy.

It is more important than ever that the Government gives us the certainty that diesel has had its day. This means ending sales of diesel cars this decade – by 2030 – five years ahead of the proposed target.

The transition away from diesel-fueled trucks to 100% zero-emission trucks is coming, but it has to happen faster. Here's a look at how close we are.