Defending environmental safeguards in the U.S.
We’ve been fighting for strong environmental and public health protections in courts across the U.S. since 1967.
Today, EDF remains a powerful force in the defense of the country’s bedrock environmental laws, and we are also focused on the next generation of lifesaving protections.
Our legal team is dedicated to protecting human health, climate safety and a sustainable environment.
Our work championing environmental protections
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Too many blackouts: How underserved communities are making utilities listen
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Defending clean vehicle standards to protect people and the planet
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Cleanup begins for thousands of abandoned oil and gas wells
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Modernizing the electric grid to advance clean energy
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How EDF’s founders helped save the U.S. national bird from DDT
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He's right to look skeptical. EDF to FDA: It's time to act on toxic chemicals in food
Updates
Read the latest articles, blogs and press releases on legal action.
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EDF files requests that the NC Utilities Commission reject Duke Energy’s current Carbon Plan and order rapid action to bring offshore wind online
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Investors, bipartisan former officials, others defend SEC climate risk disclosure rule
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Appeals Court Rejects Attempt to Block Mercury and Air Toxics Protections
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EDF Heads to Court to Defend EPA Action to Identify Climate Pollution, Including Methane from Landfills
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Unanimous Appeals Court Denies Attempt to Block Climate Pollution Standards for Power Plants
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Local business and conservation interests jointly intervene in Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion lawsuit
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Our experts
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Vickie Patton
General Counsel
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Noha Haggag
Senior Attorney, Clean Power
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Adam Peltz
Director and Senior Attorney, Energy Transition
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Jolette Westbrook
Director and Senior Attorney, Energy Markets & Regulation
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Rosalie Winn
Director and Lead Counsel, Methane and Clean Air Policy
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Peter Zalzal
Distinguished Counsel & Associate Vice President, Clean Air Strategies
Media contact
Sharyn Stein
(202) 572-3396 (office)
(202) 905-5718 (mobile)