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EDF statement from Steve Cochran, campaign director for Restore the Mississippi River Delta

As California faces an unpredictable water future, policy makers and water managers across the state are seeking solutions to build resilience into our water supply system. Groundwater recharge is an excellent tool to replenish depleted aquifers and bank water for future use. In addition to helping water managers balance their water budget, groundwater recharge also provides an opportunity to create habitat for wildlife. This guide highlights recharge basin management strategies that create wildlife habitat and provide operational benefits to basin managers.

Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed an executive order today designed to guarantee reductions in carbon pollution consistent with scientific recommendations.

This is a pivotal moment: What happens now will determine whether the world can meet its goal of cutting climate pollution from aviation.

New polling released today shows that a majority of African-Americans across the United States are personally affected by disease and extreme weather made worse by climate change, and support a transition to a 100% clean economy to curb climate pollution.

EDF press release on BLM waste prevention rule

Statement from Daniel Whittle, Senior Director, Caribbean Initiatives, Environmental Defense Fund

Declaración de Agustin Carbo, Gerente, Microrredes, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)

ERCOT releases Seasonal Assessment of Resource Adequacy

Today, people from communities across the country impacted by the cancer-causing chemical trichloroethylene (TCE) sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials demanding the agency hold a public meeting on TCE.

American University and EDF released a report finding a program that puts low-income and African American households at greater risk of lead exposure.

The EPA proposed to expand its dangerous plan to limit the science the agency can consider when developing public health and environmental safeguards.

Ground-Based Transportation Solutions To Improve Public Health and Fight Climate Change

Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) applauds the Environmental Justice for All Act.

This network will bring farmers and agricultural organizations together to continue making conservation commonplace.

Letter signed by EDF and 38 other organizations to state and federal lawmakers in New York and New Jersey with recommendations for improving the US Army Corps of Engineers New York New Jersey Harbors and Tributaries Study (NYNJHATS).

Army Corps coastal study should be improved, not halted, EDF and 40 partners tell lawmakers

Senators Murkowski and Manchin's Bipartisan Senate Innovation Package Takes Useful Steps Towards Smart Climate Policy

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

A National Survey of African American Adults.

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.

As environmental and energy policies move ahead, experts need to invest in economic data and tools that allow them to conduct robust economic analysis, to better inform policymakers, stakeholders and the public on how to design robust alternative climate and energy policies.