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A new proposal from the EPA could finally address dangerous climate and air pollution from hundreds of thousands of oil and gas sites across the country.

Food and agriculture is a significant contributor to climate change, emitting a whopping 30% of global emissions. That’s why EDF’s Climate Corps graduate fellowship program is launching the Animal Agriculture pilot program during the summer of 2023.

By Michael Colvin and Larissa Koehler Last month California took another significant step forward in advancing the deployment of zero-emission vehicles, with the adoption of a Transportation Electrification Framework by the state’s Public Utilities Commission.  The framework establishes a $1 billion, 5-year suite of programs, and it provides a pathway for the state’s large electric …

Last January, FBN and EDF launched the $25 million RAF pilot program and provided nearly 50 farmers with seasonal lines of credit of up to $5 million. EDF provides oversight related to the environmental criteria required for RAF eligibility. RAF will double in size to $50 million in operating lines for the coming season and anticipates originating up to $1 billion in climate-smart operating lines over the next five years.

Sustainable seafood grown in United States federal waters is one step closer to being on the menu today as Congress considers a new bipartisan measure — the Science-based Equitable Aquaculture Food Act, or SEAfood Act.

Nitrogen is essential for life, but excess nitrogen can pollute the atmosphere and water. EDF's new N Balance Implementation Guide provides a road map for food and agriculture companies to help reduce nitrogen pollution from agricultural production and claim the environmental improvements associated with nitrogen management.

By Sam Yarrow-Wright The International Maritime Organization knows that the shipping industry needs to change course to address the climate crisis. By committing to the Initial Greenhouse Gas Strategy in 2018, which requires the shipping industry to reduce emissions by 50% by 2050, it formally recognized this. Such a declaration, despite being forged through difficult …

EDF, Sierra Club Sue Environmental Protection Agency to Protect People from Gas-Burning Power Plant Pollution

Nitrogen is essential for life, but excess nitrogen can pollute the atmosphere and water. This has a huge impact on human and ecosystem health, as well as financial losses to farmers from fertilizer – which is at a record high price – that ultimately won’t be utilized by crops. EDF’s new N Balance Implementation Guide …

For 15 years, EDF's Climate Corps program has embedded ambitious graduate students at top-tier companies and organizations. Now they are successful sustainability leaders across the globe. 

For 15 years, EDF's Climate Corps program has embedded ambitious graduate students at top-tier companies and organizations. Now they are successful sustainability leaders across the globe.

Two New Jersey gas utilities owned by South Jersey Industries, SJI,— South Jersey Gas and Elizabethtown Gas — are petitioning the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, BPU, for approval to be acquired by JP Morgan-backed investment firm IIF. The companies’ proposal relies on a business model of continued expansion of the natural gas distribution …

Announced at COP 27, the joint declaration by key natural gas exporters, the United States, Norway and Canada, and importers, the European Union, Japan and Singapore, demonstrates the growing recognition that the supply and demand sides of energy markets must work together to reduce global methane emissions. Methane, the main ingredient of natural gas, is …

EDF statement by Sepp Haukebo, Senior Manager, Global Fisheries Initiative

Last year, for the first time, EDF and McGill University mapped every existing documented orphan well across our country. Shortly after, Congress passed the Infrastructure and Investment Act, IIJA, which included $4.7 billion to document, plug and remediate orphan wells.  This new funding, secured through EDF’s leadership, provides federal support for the first time for …

EDF Granted Consultative Status at UN’s International Maritime Organization

Thanks to our supporters, EDF helped deliver remarkable climate progress around the world in 2022 — including a new U.S. climate law that many had thought impossible.

As communities in southwest Florida, Puerto Rico and elsewhere in the Caribbean struggle to recover from the damages of an active hurricane season, efficient, proactive resilience solutions have never been more important. The post Building climate resilience requires a whole-of-government approach. Here’s how Louisiana is making it happen. first appeared on Growing Returns.

Local conservationists in The Bahamas scored a rare victory over mining interests. But the proposal to mine limestone in an ecologically valuable island is not dead yet. 

New Report Is a Blueprint for Cleaner, More Equitable Energy to Heat Massachusetts

New Report Is a Blueprint for Cleaner, More Equitable Energy to Heat Massachusetts

By John Rutecki and John Walliser On Nov. 21st, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announced his administration would pursue a now-approved emergency rulemaking to finalize long-overdue volatile organic compound and methane rules for the conventional oil and gas industry. Why the need for an emergency rulemaking? Because with no public notice or hearing, Rep. Daryl Metcalfe,

A hot mess: Solutions for stabilizing the climate

The Impact of Fossil Fuels on Communities of Color: Environmental Justice & Misinformation

Local conservationists in The Bahamas scored a rare victory over mining interests. But the proposal to mine limestone in an ecologically valuable island is not dead yet.