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A recent poll conducted by Environmental Defense Fund and Global Strategy Group shows that voters overwhelmingly support doing research into aquaculture to understand its benefits and risks and set the appropriate standards.

Many of us don’t realize how much of our livelihoods depend on a reliable electricity grid, until we lose power in a blackout or outage. For many communities across the country, that is becoming a more common occurrence as we experience more frequent and severe storms and heat waves worsened by climate change. Just last …

Statement from Fred Krupp, President, Environmental Defense Fund

The reauthorization of the farm bill, which offers critical funding to support farmers and food businesses, is currently being debated in Congress. This is a crucial moment to support farmers and businesses—and major food companies need to make sure they take advantage of it. What is at stake? Billions of dollars in funding intended to …

What’s New: EDF and its partners are currently testing the first localized version of Air Tracker for efficiency in China, enabling officials in the pilot city of Jinan to track local air pollution with great precision. Qin Hu, EDF’s Vice President and Chief Representative of the Beijing Office, gave an update on the tool late …

The reauthorization of the farm bill, which offers critical funding to support farmers and food businesses, is currently being debated in Congress. This is a crucial moment to support farmers and businesses—and major food companies need to make sure they take advantage of it.

As part of our celebration for World Environment Day, you shared photos with us. Photos that inspire you. Here are some of our favorites.

(This post was co-authored by EDF analyst Jolie Villegas) The Environmental Protection Agency’s recent updates of the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards include several steps that provide substantial public health benefits by reducing toxic air pollution from coal plants. In our last blog post we wrote about one of those steps – closing the “lignite …

A broad coalition of health and environmental groups, including Environmental Defense Fund, will help defend EPA’s updated and strengthened Mercury and Air Toxics Standards against a court challenge.

Food companies can use their voice in Washington to safeguard essential Farm Bill funding to mitigate agricultural emissions and protect food supply chains.

In the battle against misinformation, one response has started to generate some promising data: inoculation. This practice treats misinformation like a virus.

Interactive map tool that compares Pre- and Post- Sackett decisions in the United States.

Map of the United States that displays the level of risk for non-tidal wetlands across all the states.

This spring, hundreds of scientists, engineers, water managers, farmers and ranchers gathered in New Mexico to share and learn about how OpenET data is being used to advance water resources management. OpenET has radically improved access to data on evapotranspiration (ET) — or how much water plants and other vegetation consume. The result has been …

Voluntary home buyouts,can facilitate the relocation of residents out of increasingly flood-prone communities. But unfortunately, existing federal programs are slow and require local governments to meet complex and challenging guidelines. Innovative approaches are needed to make buyouts more efficient. Here are three strategies that can help. The post Three ways to make home buyouts more efficient first appeared on Growing Returns.

Authored by Juan Pablo Hoffmaister, Associate Vice President for Global Engagement at Environmental Defense Fund  The international climate community is convening in Bonn, Germany, for the 60th sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies of the UNFCCC this June—and they will set the tone for the next year of global climate engagement. The sessions in Bonn are …

The ground beneath our feet holds more carbon than the Earth's atmosphere and all its plants combined. Scientists are investigating how to keep it there.

This blog was co-authored by Sara Olsen, Project Manager, California Political Affairs Results of the latest Western Climate Initiative auction were released today, showing continued demand for allowances and confidence in the long-term stability of this landmark program. This auction is expected to generate roughly $1.1 billion for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF), which …

2-year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) - we reflect on the wins and address some of the challenges ahead.

The Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law are the most ambitious environmental laws in U.S. history — already improving lives today.

U.S. dairy farmers will soon be able to reduce the amount of methane their cows produce thanks to a new decision by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that clears the way for a product called Bovaer to come to market.

2023 was a pivotal year for EDF's impact in India. We made significant progress in building our foundation of partners and aligning our activities to support the country’s economic development, all while stabilizing the climate and providing a healthy environment.

EDF statement of Rachel Rhode, Manager, Climate Resilient Coasts and Watersheds, Florida

UK TFMR Secretariat has an opportunity to develop strong market standards to channel private finance towards real world decarbonisation.

The two biggest climate laws in U.S. history — the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law of 2021 and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 — are spurring unprecedented climate progress and changing lives across the country. Meet the people who are seeing, and sharing, the economic and environmental benefits of these landmark laws.